Question: Lap Steel by Analogy

[thomas . gorham]

Anyone out there want to take a run at completeing the following statement:

<fill in the blank> is to the lap steel
what
Mississippi John Hurt is to fingerstyle guitar

What little I know about playing fingerstyle guitar I learned from
listening to Mississippi John Hurt's relatively simple, elegant work.  Who
should I be listening to to hear lap steel lovingly stripped to the bare
essentials and well played.

Anon...TG