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This list of guitarists includes notable musicians, known principally for their guitar playing, for whom there is an article in Wikipedia. Those who are known mainly as bass guitarists are listed separately at List of bass guitarists .
Albert Nelson (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992), known by his stage name Albert King, was an American guitarist and singer who is often regarded as one of the greatest and most influential blues guitarists of all time.
The Austin, Texas based guitarist first gained notoriety in 1999, after performing on an episode of the PBS series Austin City Limits. [3] He was named one of the "Top 50 All-Time Greatest Guitar Players" by Guitar Player Magazine and won the "Best Acoustic Guitar Player" Award at the Austin Chronicle's Austin Music Awards seven years in a row.
He was a pioneer of surf music, drawing on Middle Eastern music scales and experimenting with reverb. [1] Dale was known as "The King of the Surf Guitar", which was also the title of his second studio album. Dale was one of the most influential guitarists of all time and especially of the early 1960s. [2]
Betts was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Allman Brothers Band in 1995, [20] and also won a best rock performance Grammy Award with the band for "Jessica" in 1996. [21] Betts was ranked No. 58 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time list in 2003, and No. 61 on the list published in 2011. [22] [23]
Lanny Cordola (Giuffria, House of Lords, Magdalen) Billy Corgan (The Smashing Pumpkins) Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers) Graham Coxon ; Robert Cray; Paul Crook (Anthrax, Sebastian Bach, Meat Loaf, Marya Roxx) Steve Cropper (Booker T. & the M.G.'s) Robbin Crosby ; Rivers Cuomo ; Marcos Curiel
Family Style, released shortly after his death, won the 1991 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album and became his best-selling, non-Double Trouble studio album with over a million shipments in the U.S. [216] In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked him seventh among the "100 Greatest Guitar Players of All Time", [230] with a 2023 update placing ...
Tony Iommi is widely regarded as one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time. In 2005, Metal Hammer magazine ranked him number 1 on the poll of the "Riff Lords", praising his "highly distinctive style of fretsmanship that's economical yet crushingly effective". [ 75 ]