Muddy waters
Champagne and reefer
Chicago Blues
Guitar, drums, harmonica, bass, vocals
- Rolling Stones got name from him
- transitional from blues to rock & roll
- got name from playing in miss river
Jeff Peterson
Song: Haleakala
Style: Hawaiian slack key guitar
Instrumentation: guitar
-dad was rancher & learned by going with workers & listening
-slack key linked to lap steel
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Wes Montgomery
Song: Bumpin on Sunset
Style: Jazz in 1960s
Instrument: guitar, bass, drums, piano, bongos, strings
- ability to learn melodies and riffs by ear
- used thumb to play quietly in apartment
- recognized by Lionel Hampton
- played in octaves
Jimmy Hendrix
Song: Foxey Lady
Style: Rock & Roll
Instrumentation: guitar, drums, bass
- progenitor of modern rock guitar playing
- fender guitar(backwards) and Marshall amp
- died young of drug overdose
Pat metheny
Song: bright size life
Style: Jazz fusion
Instrumentation: guitar, drums, bass
-taught at university @ young age
-played with most famous electric bass player pastorious
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Tony Rice
Song: Church Street Blues
Style: bluegrass
Instrumentation: guitar
- played in group led by David Grissom in 70s
- modernized bluegrass
- had to take jazz guitar lessons to get chords
- flat picking & capo
Paco de Lucia
Song: entre dos aguas
Style: flamenco
Instrumentation: electric bass, bongos, 2 guitars
- God of flamenco guitar
- brought flamenco to public eye
- good enough to cross over into other styles & played with John McLaughlin
Tommy Emanuel
Song: those who wait
Style: solo acoustic guitar
Instrumentation: guitar
- played all over Australia with family as a kid
- played at olympics
- most important solo steel string acoustic guitarist today
Duane Allman
Song: statesboro Blues
Style: southern rock
Instrumentation: organ, 2 guitars, 2 drums, bass
- started Allman brothers
- big contribution as slide guitar player
- first band with 2 guitarists who could really play & 2 drummers
Django Reinhardt
Song: nuages
Style: gypsy Jazz
Instrumentation: guitar, drums, piano, bass
- Established gypsy jazz
- Badly damaged hand in caravan fire so played with 2 fingers
- Survived WWII as gypsy by playing for nazis @ clubs
Charlie Christian
Song: rose room
Style: swing/Jazz
Instrumentation: guitar, bass, drummer, pianist, clarinet, vibes
- played on street with bro for $ bc dad was blind
- father of jazz guitar even tho died at 25
- 1st to establish bebop
Fernando sore
Song: Minuet Op. 11, No. 6
Style: classical
Instrument: guitar
- born in Spain in military family
- wrote a lot of pieces
- idea was write on grand staff
Joe statriani
Song: always with me, always with you
Style: Rock fusion
Instrumentation: guitars,bass keyboards, percussion, drums
- studied jazz theory with Lenny tristano
- surfing with the alien
- his rock melodies are accessible to ppl
Jennifer Batton
Song: freeway jam
Style: fusion
Instrumentation: guitars, bass, drums
- toured with Micheal Jackson
- played beat it solo perfect to get the gig
- played on tour with idol Jeff beck
Jeff beck
Song: behind the wall
Style: fusion
Instrumentation: guitar, bass, keyboard, drums
- played in yardbirds
- known as hot head; smashed equipment
- stopped using a pick in the 80s; rare
Francisco Tarrega
Song: recuerdos De la Alhambra
Style: classical-romantic
Instrumentation: guitar
- most prominent romantic era composer
- lost most vision as child
- rebellious kid, ran away a lot
Joe pas
Song: summertime
Style: jazz
Instrumentation: guitar
- 1 of most prominent jazz guitarists in history
- mid 70s album: virtuouso put him on map
- 1st to improvise harmonically on guitar
andy McKee
Song: drifting
Style: solo acoustic
Instrumentation: guitar
- unique tapping style
- grew up a metal fan
- often uses banjo capo