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The technique was made popular by African American blues artists.

The first musician to be recorded using the style was Sylvester Weaver who recorded two solo pieces " Guitar Blues " and " Guitar Rag " in 1923.

Some of the blues artists who most prominently used the slide include gospel singer Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Son House, Robert Johnson as well as Casey Bill Weldon of the Memphis Jug Band.

The sound has since become commonplace in country and Hawaiian music.

It is also used in rock, by bands and artists such as Canned Heat, The Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, Ry Cooder, Chris Rea, Bonnie Raitt, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Little Feat, Eagles, ZZ Top, Whitesnake and AC / DC.

The Rolling Stones featured a slide guitar as early as their 1963 recording of the John Lennon / Paul McCartney song " I Wanna Be Your Man ".

Guitarist Brian Jones played slide in a very blues-oriented style.

His successor Mick Taylor also displayed his own slide guitar skills while with the band, using a bottleneck on studio recordings and during live performances.

Many early Pink Floyd songs such as " See Emily Play " ( played with a Zippo lighter for a slide ), feature Syd Barrett's slide guitar performances, reflecting the band's original Chicago urban blues repertoire from musicians such as Bo Diddley and Slim Harpo.

Canned Heat's Alan Wilson also helped bring slide guitar to the rock music industry in the late 1960s which he used frequently during concerts to create a buzzing delta blues boogie which can be heard on tracks such as London Blues, I Love My Baby, Sandy Blues, and countless others and can also be seen during their performances at the Monterey Pop Festival on Rollin and Tumblin ' and at Woodstock During Woodstock Boogie and On The Road Again.

George Harrison experimented with slide guitar during the latter half of The Beatles ' career, first using the technique on an early outtake recording of " Strawberry Fields Forever " in 1966.

He later used slide extensively during his solo career on songs such as " My Sweet Lord ", " Cheer Down " and the Traveling Wilburys ' " Handle With Care ", as well as on The Beatles ' 1995 reunion single " Free as a Bird ".