!0 amazing Female guitarists

[greywolf]

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/07/10-great-female-guitarists.html

Bravo Ladies!

 

[bagman67]

Can't quibble with the list (particularly since it doesn't purport to be THE top 10 female guitarists), but this little blurb in re: Bonnie Raitt betrays a lack of familiarity with music history that lends the whole article a lack of credibility:


The guitar may be an instrument is primarily associated with male machismo, and blues guitar was basically borne out of the objectification of women.  (Emphasis supplied).
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[/size]A music journalist should have a little more familiarity with the history with the bedrock music upon which all modern American (and a hell of a lot of British) pop and rock music was erected.  Hello?  African diaspora?  Slave songs? Black spiritual music?  Whatever.

[font=verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif][/size]Alternatively, assuming the author DOES possess such familiarity, he does neither himself nor his readers a service by characterizing the  blues (or blues guitar playing, to be precise about the author's characterization) as music that oppresses women, rather than as the voice of a people - male and female - who were categorically and systematically and violently oppressed.[/font]

 

[Ace Flibble]

Need to get some Lita Ford and Orianthi in there.

 

[SalsaNChips]

Bonnie Raitt as Number One? I have to disagree. No offense to Bonnie but, with all due respect, IMHO, she is an average slide player and -- I don't know, just not engaging for me. Sort of like Robert Cray -- good but, something is just not quite right.

You want to see a polite, humble, female Texas blues rock shredder with the voice of Janis Joplin, the chops of Stevie Ray Vaughn and some SERIOUS mojo? Check out Carolyn Wonderland.

Right here:
http://youtu.be/OJV1Lrou55U

and here:
http://youtu.be/XT4Lr_oVGQY

 

[Tipperman]

I saw the chick with a Jaguar. Instant win. Surprised they put Cotten as only #5, though.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Bagman nailed it.  It's not a "best" list.  The order shouldn't matter.  I was unaware of half on the list at all, so mission accomplished.

 

[JCizzle]

I wouldn't call Joan Jett anything above an average guitarist.

 

[greywolf]

Just a link to open eyes to players you may not have seen before .

I think TOP 10 best player lists are a waste of time , everybody has thier fave's . 

 

[Great Ape]

CAROLYN WONDERLAND:"MISUNDERSTOOD"!! OH, YEAH!!

 

[Volitions Advocate]

I would've had a big fat vote for Jennifer Batten on there.  Lady has chops, went to a clinic of hers once.

 

[hannaugh]

No Annie Clark...  :dontknow:

 

[Cagey]

Chantel McGregor does some really professional Himi Hendrix and Robin Trower covers, among other things.

 

[SalsaNChips]

Chantel McGregor does some really professional Himi Hendrix and Robin Trower covers, among other things.

Check out this video of Chantel doing SRV's "Lenny".

That is particularly striking for me because I once worked on a cover of that song. I had it more or less passable, but never really finished it and eventually moved on to other things. I haven't played it or even thought about it in years. One to go back to -- great song.

 

[Cagey]

Yeah, she's pretty talented.

 

[greywolf]

Thanks for the Chantel McGregor link .. pretty talented lass

 

[greywolf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxbl-rFo0Ck&feature=related  at 14 yrs old

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojo5k10LDGQ&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJcLNGiKETk&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNU9ibpKzqg&feature=related

  Desiree Bassett .. not bad for 15 

 

[Cagey]

Hot chicks shredding. Who'da thunk it? Truly a wonderful world we live in.