List of guitarists by genre

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This is a list of notable guitarists, organized by genre.

Contents

[edit] Blues

[edit] Early blues

Robert Johnson
Big Bill Broonzy
Blind Blake
Tampa Red
Charley Patton
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Bukka White
Skip James
Blind Boy Fuller
Son House

[edit] Prewar blues

Lead Belly

[edit] Early postwar blues

[edit] Blues from the 1960s to present

Geoff Achison
Etta Baker
Jeff Beck
Eric Clapton
Rory Gallagher
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Page
Duane Allman
Luther Allison
Mike Bloomfield
Joe Bonamassa
Roy Buchanan
Rama Claproth
Albert Collins
Tracy Conover
Ry Cooder
Robert Cray
Steve 'The Colonel' Cropper
Tom DeLonge
Bo Diddley
Ronnie Earl
Robben Ford
Jesse Fuller
Lowell Fulson
Guitar Slim
Buddy Guy
Chuck Hammer
John Lee Hooker
Son House
Mississippi John Hurt
Tony Iommi
Elmore James
Skip James
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Lonnie Johnson
Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson
Jorma Kaukonen
Albert King
B.B. King
Freddie King
Sonny Landreth
J.B. Lenoir
Mance Lipscomb
Lonnie Mack
Taj Mahal
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Brownie McGhee
Blind Willie McTell
Little Milton
Memphis Minnie
Gary Moore
Keb' Mo'
Matt 'Guitar' Murphy
Pappo
Charlie Patton
Bonnie Raitt
Tampa Red
Jimmy Reed
Kelly Richey
Duke Robillard
Robert Ross
Otis Rush
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Jimmy Thackery
Hubert Sumlin
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Walter Trout
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jimmie Vaughan
Joe Louis Walker
T-Bone Walker
Muddy Waters
Bukka White
Jack White
Josh White
Johnny Winter
Howlin' Wolf

[edit] Classical

[edit] Experimental

Derek Bailey
Blixa Bargeld
Jeff Beck
Adrian Valdez
Glenn Branca
Peter Buck
Rhys Chatham
Nels Cline
Loren Mazzacane Connors
Robert Fripp
Fred Frith
Kim Gordon
Keiji Haino
Christian Hejnal
Scott Henderson
Josh Homme
Henry Kaiser
Ben Levin
Thurston Moore
KK Null
Mike Oldfield
Paul Panhuysen
Lee Ranaldo
Lou Reed
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Keith Rowe
Jim O'Rourke
Elliott Sharp
Gary Smith
Steve Vai
Frank Zappa

[edit] Flamenco

Vicente Amigo
Lenny Breau
Charo
Moraito Chico
Oscar Herrero
Paco de Lucía
Luis Maravilla
Carlos Montoya
Ramón Montoya
Paco Peña
Manitas de Plata
Tomatito
Ali Molavi
Danny Felice
Stuart Cavilla
Pedro Caparros

[edit] Folk and acoustic

Allen Collins
William Ackerman
Chet Atkins
Joan Baez
Norman Blake
Dan Ar Braz
Peter Buck
Martin Carthy
Ry Cooder
Jim Croce
John Denver
Ani DiFranco
Nick Drake
Bob Dylan
Dave Ellis
Tommy Emmanuel
John Fahey
Leslie Fish
Gordon Giltrap
Davey Graham
Dallas Green
David Grier
Nick Harper
Roy Harper
Michael Hedges
Bert Jansch
Jewel
Nic Jones
Leo Kottke
Jack Lawrence
Adrian Legg
Francois Luambo Makiadi "Franco"
John Martyn
Dave Matthews
Ellen McIlwaine
Tony McManus
Paul McSherry
Joni Mitchell
Tom Paxton
Al Perkins
John Renbourn
Stochelo Rosenberg
Tony Rice
Art Paul Schlosser
Dick Siegel
Paul Simon (Simon and Garfunkel)
Elliott Smith
Ivan Smirnov
James Taylor
Richard Thompson
Leon Wesley Walls
Doc Watson
Hank Williams
Mason Williams
Don Ross

[edit] Jazz

Category:Jazz guitarists
List of jazz guitarists

Gustavo Assis-Brasil
Elek Bacsik
Danny Barker
Aaron Benson
George Benson
Lenny Breau
Kenny Burrell
Charlie Byrd
Charlie Christian
Franco Cerri
Eddie Condon
Al Di Meola
Roman Miroshnichenko
Herb Ellis
Mimi Fox
Bill Frisell
Frank Gambale
Jamie Glaser
Grant Green
Jim Hall
Richard Hallebeek
Chuck Hammer
Fareed Haque
Scott Henderson
James Hogan
Allan Holdsworth
Charlie Hunter
Stanley Jordan
Enver İzmaylov
Barney Kessel
Eddie Lang
Adam Levy
Pat Martino
John McLaughlin
Pat Metheny
Wes Montgomery
Joe Pass
Andreas Paolo Perger
Django Reinhardt
Marc Ribot
John Scofield
Sonny Sharrock
Pete Smyser
Mike Stern
George Benson
Gabor Szabo
Martin Taylor
Dewa Budjana
I Wayan Balawan

[edit] Latin-American music

Adrian Valdez (Peruvian)
Marco Antonio Anguiano (Mexican)
Maria Luisa Anido (Argentinian)
Aquiles Báez (Venezuelan)
Carlos Barbosa-Lima (Brazilian)
Manuel Barrueco (Cuban)
Michel Bert (Chilean)
Leo Brouwer (Cuban)
Luz María Bobadilla
Luiz Bonfá (Brazilian)
Abel Carlevaro (Uruguayan)
Oscar Cáceres (Uruguayan)
Javier Calderón (Bolivian)
Oscar Castro-Neves (Brazilian)
Omar Cyrulnik (Argentinian)
Alirio Díaz (Venezuelan)
José Antonio Escobar (Chilean)
Eduardo Falú (Argeninian)
Abel Fleury (Argentinian)
Egberto Gismonti (Brazilian)
Guinga (Brazilian)
Ricardo Iznaola (Cuban-Venezuelan)
Joao Gilberto (Brazilian)
Miguel Angel Girollet (Argentinian)
Enrique Kaliski (Chilean)
Antonio Lauro (Venezuelan)
Eduardo Martín (Cuban)
Alexis Méndez (Cuban)
Sergio Moldavsky (Argentinian)
Gentil Montaña (Colombian)
Alfonso Montes (Venezuelan)
Paulinho Moreira (Brazilian)
Luis Orias (Argentinian)
Luis Orlandini (Chilean)
Garoto de Paraiba (Brazilian)
Alejandro Peralta (Chilean)
Antonio Pereira (Uruguayan)
Agustín Pereyra Lucena (Argentinian)
Carlos Pérez (Chilean)
Gerardo Pérez Capdevila (Cuban)
Manuel Pérez Díaz (Venezuelan)
Baden Powell de Aquino (Brazilian)
Luis Quintero (Venezuelan)
Rodrigo Riera (Venezuelan)
Berta Rojas (Paraguayan)
Juiio Sagreras (Argentinian)
Gonzalo Salazar (Mexican)
Isaías Savio (Uruguayan)
Luis Salina (Argeninian)
Marcela Sfrisso (Argentinian)
Toquinho (Brazilian)
Mauricio Valdebenito (Chilean)
Cristian Vásquez(Chilean)
Victor Villadangos (Argentinian)
Atahualpa Yupanqui (Paraguayan)
Sebastián Zambrana (Argentinian)
Luis Zea (Venezuelan)

[edit] Metal

[edit] Rock/pop

[edit] See also