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:)
Laura Snowden
with some unusual classical pieces
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
and
Kristin Korb
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
Joan Armatrading plays
Lead blues
kaki king - cool percussive stuff, :-
live
alex houghton is a bit like kaki king i guess
but more varied vocals
macy taylor is also v. good
and astoundingly
young
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.
the really rather fine
Sue Foley
and what about Chantel McGregor, doin a stormin version of
red house
caroline wonderland:
pickin in texas
samantha fish:
keyin on the highway
joanne shaw taylor:
time will tell
Eilidh Mckellar:
with joe b
lookin forward to some of her own things...
Debbie Davies
just came to play
Deirdre
Cartwright with the great Sarah Jane Morris singing..
Emily Remler was truly one great bebop/wes style jazzer
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)