Actually, I've always liked Johnny Lang. The first time I ever really heard him, was when he was opening for Blues Traveler and he did an awesome job (and this was just after his first album came out). I think he probably could have benefited from not getting so big so young, but he had been paying his dues so anyway... yeah..

Regardless, I have a friend who used to do a lot of SRV covers in his old band. He got as close to Stevie as anybody did, but still managed go inject his own voice into the music. Of course, as is the case with many people, he was a bit overly critical of himself so he felt he was too close and tried to stay away from SRV covers in the later days of his band. It was kinda like listening to the SRV and Albert King CD- two players very close stylisticly, but still managing to stay very unique.

Of course he never had a column in a guitar mag about how to cop SRV's style.