List of guitarists by genre
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This is a list of notable guitarists, organized by genre.
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[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
[edit] Early postwar blues
[edit] Blues from the 1960s to present
- 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
- Glenn Branca
- Peter Buck
- Rhys Chatham
- Nels Cline
- Loren Mazzacane Connors
- Robert Fripp
- Bill Frisell
- Fred Frith
- Kim Gordon
- Keiji Haino
- Christian Hejnal
- Scott Henderson
- Josh Homme
- Henry Kaiser
- Yuri Landman
- Thurston Moore
- KK Null
- Mike Oldfield
- Paul Panhuysen
- Lee Ranaldo
- Lou Reed
- Marc Ribot
- 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
[edit] Folk and acoustic
- William Ackerman
- Chet Atkins
- Joan Baez
- Norman Blake
- Creed Bratton
- Dan Ar Braz
- Peter Buck
- Martin Carthy
- Allen Collins
- Ry Cooder
- Jim Croce
- John Denver
- Ani DiFranco
- Nick Drake
- Bob Dylan
- 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
- 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
- Jason Wilber
- Shahin Alavi
[edit] Jazz
[edit] Latin-American music
- Manuel Barrueco (Cuban)
- Leo Brouwer (Cuban)
- Luiz Bonfá (Brazilian)
- Abel Carlevaro (Uruguayan)
- Oscar Castro-Neves (Brazilian)
- Alirio Díaz (Venezuelan)
- Egberto Gismonti (Brazilian)
- Guinga (Brazilian)
- Joao Gilberto (Brazilian)
- Antonio Lauro (Venezuelan)
- Gentil Montaña (Colombian)
- Carlos Pérez (Chilean)
- Baden Powell de Aquino (Brazilian)
- Rodrigo Riera (Venezuelan)
- Toquinho (Brazilian)
- Atahualpa Yupanqui (Paraguayan)
