This list is crap. Every one of these musicians' playing is heavily influenced by others.
Do you think Chuck Berry didn't try to play like Sister Rosetta Tharpe?
And what about Robert Plante and Bo Diddley?
I wish a musicologist would weigh in and we could all learn something instead of reading this list written by some idiot with a computer whose white butt I would like to kick down the stairs and then up again.
Excellent post.
I also thought of Bo Diddley.