When I was a student and was into black blues I also got to know the music of (white) country/bluesrock legend Lonny Mack, famous for the intensive use of the whammy bar on his Flying V guitar.
News paper says: rock guitarists loved his play, but he never got the status of the younger pop idols like Keith Richards and Eric Clapton.
Stevie Ray Vaughan, who always loved his virtuosity on the guitar, got to be friends with him, resulting in a blues rock album in 1985, Strike Like Lighting.
He died thursday 21 april, overshadowed by the death of the other guitar legend Prince.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbfgBlkSoqc