# Three Hours Past Midnight guitar solo > The guitar solo on Three Hours Past Midnight by Johnny "Guitar" Watson (1956) starts at about 1:35. From the album single. A blues classic from the 1950s. Canonical URL: Johnny "Guitar" Watson, 1956, from *single*. Solo by *Johnny Guitar Watson*. A slow blues full of stinging, aggressive single-note lines that influenced Frank Zappa and many others. Three Hours Past Midnight by Johnny "Guitar" Watson is #2 in our ranking of the best Johnny Guitar Watson guitar solos. The solo is played by Johnny Guitar Watson and the song was released in 1956. ## In our lists - [The Best Johnny Guitar Watson Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/johnny-guitar-watson-guitar-solos/) — #2 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1956](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1956/) — #14 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Three Hours Past Midnight? Johnny Guitar Watson played the solo on Johnny "Guitar" Watson's Three Hours Past Midnight (1956). --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)