[Yardstick]

Clapton/Allman's Key to the Highway should be on the list

You're right, great playing on that one (and I love Clapton's scraggly strat tone -- it's perfect).

My nomination to the list is the short but excellent Pete Townshend solo in Pure and Easy.

Hmm. I don't recall that that one right off hand.

But speaking of great solos by English guitarists, check out Richard Thompson's solo on the song Hard On Me, dowloadable for free here (just scroll down a little and click the musical notes below the song title).

I don't know of anyone that sounds quite like him.

[Supernatural]

"Pure and Easy" is from Townshend's solo album from 1972 called "Who Came First".

Here are the songs rated by people on the web:

Pure & Easy - *****
Evolution - **
Forever's No Time At All - ***
Let's See Action - ****
Time Is Passing - *****
Heartache - *****
Sheraton Gibson - *****
Content - ***
Parvardigar - ****

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/pete_townshend/who_came_first/

[RightOnline]

So I checked out the link to Thompson.....and no offense and with all due respect..........NOT impressed. Go to Nashville and in any street corner bar you'll hear kids who'll mop the floor with 'im.

I say this as a blues/rock guitarist since 1968.