Female Electric Guitarists

Sister rosetta tharpe playing a guitar solo in front of a gospel choir.

Female electric guitarists.

I challenge you to find a cooler lady than sister rosetta tharpe. Orianthi penny panagaris was born in adelaide south australia and is of greek. For this list we ve picked female guitarists based on a mixture of innovation talent notoriety and public esteem. Rock and sex go together like whiskey and water.

The same year orianthi was named one of the 12 greatest female electric guitarists by elle magazine. Here are 12 of the greatest female electric guitar players to ever pick up the instrument. We promised at the beginning of this auspicious and celebratory 50th anniversary year of guitar player that the staff would use the magazine s elder statesperson role to dream about the possible future of the guitar and to honor its past as part of that mission we are recognizing 50 female guitarists who have made or who are making tremendous contributions to guitarcraft and. Joni mitchell s lyrical acoustic playing on the early albums was enough to earn her a mention among the best female guitarists and as she gradually went electric heavy hitters the likes of.

Paving the way for electric blues she is a female guitarist who played her electric guitar with heavy distortion and was praised with titles such as the original soul sister and godmother of rock and roll. Please support us on patreon to help keep this channel rockin. In the meantime elle presents 12 of the greatest female electric guitar players to ever pick up the instrument. She also won the award as breakthrough guitarist of the year 2010 by guitar international magazine.

Life and career early life. Talented innovative or just plain entertaining these six stringers of the female variety know how to get the party rolling. Click here to join now.