Johnny Winter should be WAY higher than #74.Listen to JOHNNY WINTER CAPTURED LIVE and you will be convince and converted.
Thats embarrassing that Johnny Winter is #74. I think if you polled the guitarists on that list, most of them will talk about Johnny as big influences......if you could, just ask Muddy.
For proof, Johnny took the Bob Dylan tribute/snoozefest and woke everyone up with this . EVERYONE talked about that being one of if not THE highlight of the show.
I agree with everyone who mentioned Junior Brown. I've seen him 7 times and he is SO good. Plus, checkout the guitar/steel guitar or "Guit-steel" he had made and watch him go seemlessly back in forth between the 2........REALLY GOOD!!!!