Top 10 Female Guitarists of All Time

talented innovators or just plain entertaining these six performers of the

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variety know how to keep the party going welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top ten

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based on a mix of innovation, talent, notoriety and public esteem. I will appreciate it, since everything is finite. They don't necessarily have to be virtuoso or the greatest guitarists of all

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, but they are certainly known for possessing some skill on the number 10 instrument. Annie Clark performing a st. Vincent's since 2006, Annie Clark has made a name for herself as a source of unwavering, buzz-filled hooks lifted from Dallas, Texas, in bands like Pavement and Pink Floyd.

The guitarist also draws on Led Zeppelin and Sonic Youth in her recording and composition at Berklee College. A musical dropout, Clark was a self-proclaimed jazz fingerpicker before joining choral rock band The Polyphonic Spree, known for its unique approach. Clark has said that she writes many of her songs while trying to fall asleep. Mother number nine Maybelle Carter, although she is not that well known. Today, like her son-in-law Johnny Cash, Maybelle Carter's contribution to the art of the guitar should not be overlooked using a large-body Gibson l5 guitar. Carter pioneered a style of thumb-and-finger plucking known as Carter Family plucking or Carter's scratch using her thumb to pluck the face and melodic lines.

Carter simultaneously strummed the high strings with her finger. This style of playing later became the basis for Bill Monroe's bluegrass style and helped establish the guitar as the primary instrument. She became Kaki King number eight, although he began playing guitar at Kaki King, aged four, he switched to drums at a young age and did not return to guitar until he was 19. King has more than made up for lost time and has developed a unique combination of flamenco percussion, fret strokes, fans and bass strokes on both conventional instruments and unconventional guitars known for his use of altered tunings.

King is also noted for playing his guitar, koto hybrid instrument in this style. King will insert a second bridge saddle under the strings, creating two sets of notes and mind-blowing results. Number Seven Joni Mitchell as Loose-Tuned Innovator and Writer of Classics on Both Sides, Now Joni Mitchell may be confused, but don't call her folk. Last night I heard that her career grew out of the 60's folk scene and that she literally learned from Pete Seeger's guitar book. Mitchell happily went electric in the late '70s and typically recorded with jazz musicians, as no one else was willing to give her the sound she wanted with a handful of songs and standard tunings that Joni uses or developed 51 different guitar tunings than who accesses today. through a roland vg8 guitar processor number six Sister Rosetta Tharpe, if you were to give rock and roll another name, you might call it rosetta tharpe, a rocker before rock existed, she mixed dark folk blues and gospel into a sound that was a major influence on Little Richard Elvis and Chuck Berry, his recording of Stranger Things That Happen Every Day, was a proto-rocker and reached No. 2 on what are now Billboard's R&B charts in 1944.

In 1947, Thorpe switched to electric guitars, mainly from Gibson; She is even rumored to have been buried. with the custom 1961 Les Paul SG number five, Orianthi seems to come out of nowhere, this wonder from Australia being one of the top names signed to her. Orianthi was playing guitar with Carrie Underwood when Michael Jackson recruited her for what would have been her final tour. In addition to our revered solo career, Orianthi plays with Alice Cooper, Michael Bolton, James Durbin and Dave Stewart of Arrhythmias. A former classical guitarist, she switched to blues-based rock guitar at age 11 after seeing Carlos Santana in concert and, as rarely, looked back, number four Bonnie Raitt Bonnie Raitt's plans to be a folk singer fell through shortly after the redhead discovered the slide guitar, or bottleneck given her slide style.

Taso typically plays in open A or open G tuning and has a preference for glass slides that originally used real bottles. For playing, while rate uses acoustic guitars, she sometimes prefers electric guitars for their greater sustain and expressiveness long associated with her Fender Strat brownie. The company has since honored her with an exclusive model, making her the first female artist to have a number three. jett a rock star in her teens joan jett made a name for herself doing exactly what the establishment said rock couldn't do starting her career with the runaways jet co-wrote the band's signature song cherry bombs and eventually took over vocal duties When singer Cherry Curry left the group after the band broke up Jeff recorded a solo album but it was rejected by 23 different labels, so he started his own, which is still active today with the Blackhearts.

Jet is a cult icon in rock and punk and still plays his Gibson melody maker guitars at crotch level number two Nancy Wilson, although he is no slouch in playing electric music, Nancy Wilson's mission when she joined her sister and at the heart of the band was adding more acoustic guitars to the group with results as timeless and written as crazy, you could argue with her Wilson. Her role as guitarist in the group continued to grow, however, her playing really came to the fore when guitarist Roger Fisher left the group, a vacancy she had no trouble filling before we revealed our best. choice.

Here are some honorable mentions. Number one. Lita Ford as Joan Jett. Lita Ford first rose to fame in The Runaways, however, Joan followed a more punk direction, while Lita took a more rock path once engaged to Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi and having recorded with the leader. Ozzy Osbourne. Ford uses heavy metal like a bat and doesn't care about the effects. uses a basic rig of a rich BC witcher plugged into a Marshall stack firing off thick, crunchy rhythm parts and tearing up tracks with dropouts. Do you agree with our who's your favorite guitarist list for more hard rock top 10s released every day ? subscribe to watchmojo.com