Rev. Edward W. Clayborn
also I don't think there's anything in Charlie Patton's slide playing that would preclude it all being played lap-style. I know Son House said he played regular bottleneck style as well, but Son said a lot of things. At the very least, I don't think that there's a single slide tune Patton played with a note that could be said 100% to be conventionally fretted. The closest I think would be the bass notes in Magnolia Blues/When Your Way Gets Dark but I think those could be played with a bar and there's one point in one of the tunes where one of them sounds like it is.
