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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.
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 .
Readers of Guitar World voted two of Blackmore's guitar solos (both recorded with Deep Purple) among the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of all time – "Highway Star" ranked 19th, and "Lazy" ranked 74th. [86] His solo on "Child in Time" was ranked no. 16 in a 1998 Guitarist magazine readers poll of Top 100 Guitar Solos of All-Time. [87]
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]
In 2010, David Fricke of Rolling Stone magazine referred to Richards as the creator of "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar, [173] and the magazine ranked him fourth on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. [174] Rolling Stone also lists fourteen songs he co-wrote with Jagger on its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time ...
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 ]
John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. [2] Winter was known for his high-energy blues rock albums, live performances, and slide guitar playing from the late 1960s into the early 2000s.
In 2018, Moore was voted number 15 on Louder's list of "The 50 Best Guitarists of All Time". [123] In 2020, he was named on a list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" by Total Guitar. [124] Classic Rock included him in their 2021 list of "The 100 Most Influential Guitar Heroes". [66]