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I'm no virtuoso but I do know there are two things that will reveal a lead guitarists competence, vibrato and pitch bending. You need a convincing vibrato and you need to be able to bend notes up to the right pitch. A lot of players I suspect spend time working on speed before they have got these basics right.
The source material for the sixties blues boom people was a lot of Albert King and Freddie King. Albert used weird tunings so copying him note for note isn't ideal but something like Cream's Strange Brew is that vibe played in standard tuning.
Freddie King's instrumentals were covered by Peter Green, Clapton, Stan Webb and others over the years and there's a fair amount of tutorial stuff available. Hideaway, The Stumble and San Ho Say are the obvious ones and you'll find backing tracks easy enough. Freddie had an odd picking style but you don't need to replicate that. The harmonised double stops in the first two are really cool. Like the Peter Green suggestions they break down easily into phrases so it's quite easy to learn a bit at a time.
I did once learn Boom Bapa Boom by Jimmie Vaughan, the main solo is mostly a series of double stops so it's a cool way to solo without relying on big bends or vibrato. Jimmie's soloing generally is quite simple and melodic and a nice alternative to the kind of sub Gary Moore machismo solos that you get now.
Maybe Green Onions - great for jamming minor blues but the guitar solo by Steve Cropper is a masterclass on using simple licks imaginatively.
I don't think that's all slide on the intro?
There are some cover efforts on YouTube you can probably work out what he's doing.