Greatest Female Electric Guitarists

Here are 12 of the greatest female electric guitar players to ever pick up the instrument.

Greatest female electric guitarists.

In celebration of it might get loud a riff on some of our favorite women to pick up an ax. 12 greatest female electric guitarists. Only two women joni mitchell and joan jett were honored. Garcia whose mother was a registered nurse and whose father jose was a small time jazz musician had a troubled childhood.

Liona boyd boyd graced our cover in july 1987 and won classical guitarist of the year honors in our reader s poll so many times that she was selected for the magazine s gallery of the greats. The good news about the best female guitarists is that there are too many to fit on a list of 25 the tradition goes back to the formative days of gospel country folk and rock your favourite. The 100 greatest guitarists of all time by total guitar editors total guitar 06 july 2020 featuring the trailblazers the early innovators the best jazz rock indie blues metal and acoustic players and the best guitarists around today. Take rolling stone s 2003 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.

But much like our custom amplifiers this list goes to 11. Could be that since the electric guitar s popularity blossomed in the mid twentieth century collective wisdom has suggested that great female guitarists simply don t exist.