Some of many admirable women guitarists of the world

From list in La Guitara, as compiled by Patti Larkin check out these fab guitar players from all over the world and the world of guitar music (most of them sing a tad better than most of the blokes who think they can play guitar, code and write sci fi, too:)

Ana Vidovic playing a fine piece by Pierre Bensusan

Vicky Genfan tapping and norwegian wood

not forgetting the queens of the lower frequencies, such as Esperanza Spalding

r block with a very cool cat

Mimi fox is very serious jazz player

Sharon Isbi, playing a la recuerdos d l'alhambra

A great brazillian called Badi assad explaining how to use harmonics:- and and some cool beat box vocals... and singing too

v. cool bluegrass player, Muriel Anderson covers the ENTIRE band on 1 nylon string guitar

Wu Man playing a chinese type of guitar is pretty astounding

Fatoumata Diawara who sings and acts too (and dances) at womad once

Back in the day, Joan Armatrading played some interesting acoustic like fire but now, also shows fantasic Lead blues

kaki king - cool percussive stuff, :- live

alex houghton is a bit like kaki king i guess but more varied vocals

slide player ellen mcillwaine is v. old school blues singer... with fine attack

a nice rag by elizabeth cotten, who is the genuine article from of old

and sister rosetta tharpa with a great gospel/blues/lead style.

Deirdre Cartwright with the great Sarah Jane Morris singing.. More in the classic rock genre line:-

jennifer batten with jeff beck And here's her instructions on how to do shredding followed by a completely insane video of flight of the bumblebee

Orianthi is also good - more straight ahead - from Oz (was also picked by Michael Jackson, and now with alice cooper).

Ana Popovic can hack some pretty mean blues shredding with nice tone...

Joni Mitchell is always rather good at tuning tricks with the priest (for example - many others)

Must add + Robin thingy (country rock picker)