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WestWinds - January 27, 2012 at 7:53 PM
Why don't you just make a long list of female guitarists? Women guitarists have been given the short shrift for so lone it's about time they got so...
Report This Comment WestWinds - January 27, 2012 at 7:46 PM
What about Lita Ford? She seems to know her way around a neck.
Report This Comment dharma69 - October 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM
Call me crazy but where's Kaki King? And is Orianthi too "known" to be on this list?
Report This Comment jilaw50 - September 28, 2010 at 11:12 PM
I am a guitarist who played for the opening kick-off for the Feb 2010 Clearwater Blues Festival and met a great Russian blues guitarist there named...
Report This Comment introvertia - September 22, 2010 at 3:07 PM
Man...lots of missing people here. Kristin definitely rates Top 5...but no Amber Valentine of Jucifer? No Juliana Hatfield? No Louise Post of Veruc...
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Unsung and up-and-coming heroines of the six-string
Pioneers like Joan Jett, Heart's Nancy Wilson, Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and more kicked down the doors for women who just want to bash their axes with stomping rock and hypnotic pop. In turn, they inspired women such as Throwing Muses' Kristin Hersh and Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein, who have gone on to blaze trails for the next generation of six-string standouts (like Marnie Stern, pictured) also included in this star-studded list. Some you may have heard, and some you may have yet to experience. But all are shredding what's left of the envelope that once marginalized female guitarists in a still mostly male-dominated music industry.—Scott Thill, Special to Metromix
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