Top 20 Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time

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When these ladies were rocking, jaws dropped and faces melted. For this list, we'll be ranking the most influential and talented lady shredders to saddle up a six string. Our countdown includes Gabriela Quintero, Charo, Kaki King, Lita Ford, Bonnie Raitt, and more! Did we miss any of YOUR favorite rockers? Let us know in the comments!
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@WatchMojo 3 года назад

Check out our featured song: "Tranquility" by Sophie Burrell! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Jvqv2HcL-4M.html Did we miss any of YOUR favorite rockers? Let us know in the comments!

@theshaun6371 3 года назад

Mommmmmm

@jimmyjimenezramirez3792 3 года назад

I Don't speak English, alguien que me lo traduzca?

@RonSpina 3 года назад

Awesome 🌷😊

@ArkaeaFCL3 3 года назад

Top 10 HIM songs. Please!!

@loboblanco4426 3 года назад

@@WithScienceAsMySheperd They got the great kat, much to my surprise!

@JetFixxxer 3 года назад

I'm happy you included Sister Rosetta Tharpe. She is often overlooked.

@KayYoungNC 3 года назад

This ❤️💯

@jeroenschoondergang5923 3 года назад

And her triple humbucker SG (which was back then still a Les Paul)

@WagonerVT 3 года назад

Overated

@toobasaurus23 3 года назад

Absolutely. 🔥

@TiagodeMattos21 3 года назад

But didnt include Big Mama Thornton?!

@donaldwilson2620 3 года назад

I'm glad you put Charo on this list. Many people know her for her comedy but a lot of people don't realize that she's also a very talented musician as well.

@karenthomas1456 2 года назад

I definitely didn't. And I happen to like Flamenco guitar too.

@kristennicole811 Год назад

I had no idea! I was literally staring at the tv mouth wide open

@silverthornstributes6945 Год назад

Also glad to see Charo on the list!

@batgurrl 3 года назад

Solid list but.. Nancy Wilson should have been #1 HUGE Omission- Chrissie Hynde - The Pretenders Great including Poison Ivy but where is Joan Jett? Thanks for including #19 The Donna’s kicked ass and modeled themselves after The Ramones

@jeffjackson9679 3 года назад

Does she even know how to play lead (where Lita Ford can)? I think Fischer and Lease played most all of the lead tracks for Heart. Not taking away her talent, but this list is based on guitar playing ability, not songwriting.

@qmnnvrdyz8965 3 года назад

@@jeffjackson9679 Yes, Nancy is an amazing guitar player. You maybe haven't seen any of her live work. Lita is amazing, too.

@DTD110865 2 года назад

I'm still upset that the list excluded Miki Berenyi.

@danielshannon6027 4 месяца назад

The late great Jan Kuehnemund of Vixen

@joshuabrooks4907 10 месяцев назад

Tracy Chapman should have been featured here. Her acoustic, flamenco style playing on Fast Car is awesome.

@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety 3 года назад

I vote for Janice - Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem.

@sabasufyana 3 года назад

Dare I say that Nancy Wilson is the reason that many millions of women picked up the guitar. Don't think anyone else on this list has the same kind of influence that she does. Not to mention her versatility and songwriting and singing ability. Only Bonnie Raitt and Joni Mitchell are in the same league.

@pjay5964 3 года назад

Vicki Peterson of the BANGLES is also an awesome guitarist♥️

@captainmacruff1893 2 года назад

Love the Bangles ❤️❤️❤️😻

@cactusplant2686 Год назад

Same goes for the lead guitarist for the GoGo's she can shred it with the best! 🎸🎶

@milagrosrondon3756 3 года назад

I love Joan jet and the black hearts😺♥️🇵🇪

@WagonerVT 3 года назад

Overated

@midnight-2021 3 года назад

Samantha Fish IMO is a better vocalist, guitarist and singer songwriter then Joan Jett and Lita Ford.

@davefryer4530 3 года назад

@@midnight-2021 Samantha Kicks Ass !

@ninamc6116 3 года назад

Nancy Wilson is the best female guitarist. Her influence on women to become guitarists, her body of work says it all. Think about when she started. There were only a handful. She was like the female Jimmy Page. Rock on Nancy! She’s still a bad ass!

@liveitloud65 2 года назад

Not to disparage but Lita Ford better than Nancy? No way. Nancy is a legend!!!

@lenfirewood4089 Год назад

There's the problem - Jimmy Page wasn't an analogue of a female guitarist - he built on many other male guitarists that went before him but also added his own innovations and creativity that makes his work so recognisable. A post feminist world needs more women to have the confidence to create from a feminine muse works that add to the repertoire rather than trying to emulate male style and expressions.

@danielshannon6027 4 месяца назад

Overrated... sorry.

@loboblanco4426 3 года назад

I had actually forgotten a large number of these artists... Thank you for bringing them back to the foreground!

@nodnarbleahcim5097 3 года назад

Kanami Tōmo of Band Maid will make this list someday. Look up songs like “Blooming”, “YOLO”, “The Non-Fiction Days”, “Choose Me”, and “Real Existence”.

@sage_redgrave91 3 года назад

Fuckin' love Band Maid. Japan has excellent female bands such as Mary's Blood, Aldious, Disqualia, Lovebites to name a few. Definitely worth a look if ya haven't heard of em.

@JDsHouseofHobbies 3 года назад

@@sage_redgrave91 Agreed! Love all those bands and Bridear, Fate Gear and TRiDENT , but Band-Maid is still my first love!

@mrz80 3 года назад

Kanami should be on the list today. :D

@shanewalton8888 3 года назад

Watchmojo will never include an Asian

@michaelbiscay9836 3 года назад

Yes! Thank you! I scrolled down to make the same reference. I would also include Midori and Miyako from Lovebites. Japan is killing it right now.

@LierenCavanaugh 3 года назад

I don't agree, Ms. Mojo. Lita Ford is awesome, but she does not, by any stretch of the imagination, hold a candle to Nancy Wilson. She just doesn't have the range for it.

@oceanasong4777 3 года назад

Yes - thank you!

@omfug7148 3 года назад

Lita Ford sounds like every other mediocre metal player out there, Wilson is excellent however.

@tinacox 3 года назад

Wendy Melvoin (from Prince & the Revolution) ABSOLUTELY should be on this list.

@mjg8328 9 месяцев назад

YESS 💜

@tomjacobs2032 8 месяцев назад

To many hair band scratchers on the list. W.M. Can play with the best of them.

@streamsandgalaxies 3 года назад

Joni Mitchel should have been on the main list, also missing H.E.R., Joan Armatrading, Kat Dyson & Liona Boyd!

@grumpypandy8123 3 года назад

Brittany Howard too

@midnight-2021 3 года назад

Samantha Fish

@shawnuel 3 года назад

@Ian Turner Susanna Hoffs is strictly a rhythm player. Vicki Peterson was the guitar fire behind the Bangles sound.

@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu 3 года назад

This is a great video. I didn't know about most of these people. Glad they uploaded this.

@WatchMojo 3 года назад

You're welcome! Glad to hear it!

@AceOfClubsHUN 3 года назад

Nita Strauss, what a woman, what a guitarist. I wasn't prepared for her when I went to that Alice Cooper concert. One of my best concert experiences ever.

@antimatter2380 3 года назад

She's such a badass with monster stage presents. The two times I saw Alice, I was more transfixed on her than the props. Well her and the drummer.

@AceOfClubsHUN 3 года назад

@@antimatter2380 "Anyway, who's that long haired dude with the corpse paint makeup singing next to Nita?" Jk, still, I feel you.

@DeskOfKidAdorable 3 года назад

Also Jackie Venson, Anna Calvi, Marnie Stern, Jenny Tuite, Courtney Barnett...

@mirofarrakis 3 года назад

Yes I was looking for Anna Calvi on this list

@Theuncontrolled 3 года назад

This list is seriously pure gold.

@ThePartisan13 3 года назад

Nancy Wilson is on a whole other level

@rachelthompson9324 3 года назад

I can't believe you missed Anna Popovic, who is active now and has been playing out for over 15 years, she is international and plays every style but her blues knows no limits.

@midnight-2021 3 года назад

No Samantha Fish either? Both Anna and Samantha should have made this list and also didn't even get the honorable mention list as well.

@shadowleviathan 3 года назад

Joni Mitchell as an honorable mention? What an insult! She should be in top 10 easy.

@amramin2134 3 года назад

Joni should be on every list

@KevyNova 3 года назад

I’d honestly put her at #1.

@PoppaBoogaloo 3 года назад

That was a fantastic list. I thoroughly enjoyed it and you’ve inspired me to start checking out the back catalogue of a lot of these artists. Well done guys.

@magnolianame8818 3 года назад

This is one of the best videos done by you guys in a while. The range on this list is just great. And so excited y'all included Ani Difranco

@MrSmooth273 3 года назад

Charo is an underrated Guitarist.

@WagonerVT 3 года назад

Overated

@duncan3998 3 года назад

So is Juliana Hatfield Three

@BrianRosenbergMusican 3 года назад

Charo's skills are so high on guitar she should #1 easily

@tomryan914 3 года назад

"Oh, I say something naughty?"

@devorahacts 3 года назад

She studied with Segovia.

@petermiller4953 3 года назад

Lzzy Hale is awesome! She has yet to disappoint!

@WagonerVT 3 года назад

Overated

@slashthe2nd 3 года назад

@@WagonerVT OveRatEd 🤣🤣

@slashthe2nd 3 года назад

Amen🤘

@angiehuffman5428 3 года назад

Would've been nice if they had included some of her actual playing like they did everyone else. Seen Halestorm live 3 times. Each time has been amazing

@midnight-2021 3 года назад

Lzzy Hale is a top notch vocalist but as a guitar player she is very average. When I think of a musician that is both a top notch vocalist and top notch guitar player I think of Samantha Fish.

@blueshadesable 3 года назад

LOVED this list! Well-researched with lots of great surprise artists I’d never heard of. Great clips too. Moar of this!!

@myredenvelopes 3 года назад

I was so worried you would not include Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

@brianmiller1077 3 года назад

It's not necessarily Rock and Roll, but she ROCKS!

@myredenvelopes 3 года назад

@@brianmiller1077 on the contrary sir, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was one of the pioneers of rock and roll. Her unique combination of gospel and blues helped to form the sound of rock and roll in the 1950s. Between you, me, and the fence post, if I was a teenager in England in the 1960s and I heard that this show was coming up, I would make it a point to see it.

@venanciahopkins5035 3 года назад

Also this Prince fan has something to say also as far as great female guitarists, Wendy Melvoin should be on this list too!

@KHLthe2nd 3 года назад

You forgot Nita Strauss was in "The Iron Maidens".

@WagonerVT 3 года назад

Overated

@ratthawks 3 года назад

@@WagonerVT no she's not!!

@hurstguy73 2 года назад

@@ratthawks Used to be I The Iron Maidens

@ratthawks 2 года назад

@@hurstguy73 oh dang, she was

@Scottie_S Год назад

@@ratthawks It's a troll or a bot, or a troll-bot. Don't respond to trolls. This one has cut and pasted the same thing over and over again.

@TimCarter 3 года назад

A list that finally got it right. So many lists have Joan Jett at the top and Lita Ford at the bottom or not on at all. Good to see you guys giving Lita the respect she deserves.

@zahira_rania Год назад

Nancy wilson 👍

@GoryionB 3 года назад

Lzzy is a BEAST! And one of the few singers I've seen in person that sounds exactly the same live as recorded.

@katerinasimpson1100 2 года назад

I cannot thank you enough for including Lzzy Hale, she’s my idol! And really kind and great with fans. An icon in the making.

@k.k.marriott5901 Год назад

She was my 63 birthday gift from my daughter. Apocalyptic

@stealthcabbie1336 3 года назад

Kanami Tono from Band-Maid. A great guitarist/songwriter.

@stakesd 3 года назад

Awesome and well researched WatchMojo!

@miyahsmommy7172 11 месяцев назад

Nancy Wilson is always going to be my number 1 on this list!!

@djerabek1 3 года назад

This video is approved by the Spanish Inquisition

@daaavid6344 3 года назад

I wasn't expecting that

@freddiereagan6705 3 года назад

Yeah

@blackenedheart9592 3 года назад

Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!

@rabbivj 3 года назад

Where’s the comfy chair?

@whenfatkillsfat803 3 года назад

And it's here to stay!

@kennethgeollegue8820 3 года назад

Very informative, however there are a few gems from Japan as well, like from their all female bands, like Band-Maid.

@andrewsoul 3 года назад

So glad Lzzy Hale is on here. Great list

@slashthe2nd 3 года назад

🤘

@snowdog5895 3 года назад

Where is Kanami Tono????? Brilliant player and composer!! 🎶🎸🥁🎸🎶🔥🙂

3 года назад

The BEST!

@tjwash5118 3 года назад

I wasn’t expecting to see her name but Emmylou Harris is very gifted with several types of guitars. Like Dolly she can really extract the emotion in a song with her guitar. Lucinda Williams is quite good as well.

@PhilFeedback 3 года назад

Great video, kudos to all the great female artists and guitarist!!!! 👍

@BackwoodsFilms 3 года назад

Very cool to see Poison Ivy making the list. She had a tone like no other. And that attitude... But yeah, I'd put Nancy at #1 over Lita. A few others who also deserve mention: Samantha Fish Wata (from Japanese doom band Boris) Suzi Gardner (L7) Gretchen Menn

@Danielhuff-ej3gh 2 месяца назад

that's what I love about music, there's always something new and exciting to discover

@positrondesign6514 3 года назад

Honorable Mentions: Susan Tedeshi and Chrissy Hynde

@andrewpappas9311 3 года назад

I met Jennifer Batten a few years ago at a music camp that my college did and she was one of the guest musicians (that same week we also had Albert Lee and Victor Wooten), she’s such a nice person and had some really cool stories from when she toured with Michael Jackson and I also got a picture with her and she also signed my guitar strap (which I still have on one of my guitars). Aside from that I was also happy to see Joni Mitchell on the list (since I’m also Canadian) but I personally would’ve put Nancy Wilson from Heart at number one, she’s super underrated in my opinion and her playing (especially that intro to Crazy On You) is just insane

@zahira_rania Год назад

Nancy badas

@BoondockGore 3 года назад

I thought heart would be first... good list regardless 👌

@midnight-2021 3 года назад

Poison Ivy is one of the must underrated musicians of all time. Glad she atleast made this list. But where is Samantha Fish?

@helheimx 3 года назад

Kanami Tōno (Band Maid), Midori and Miyako (Lovebites) are we a joke to you.

@ender26 3 года назад

Molly Tuttle should be on this list. Maybe the best crosspicking and clawhammer player alive.

@Lic.Gabriel 3 года назад

This list is excellent! Thanks.

@shawnuel 3 года назад

So glad you mentioned Janis Ian. She was/is SORELY under appreciated as a guitar player.

@rickytrottier5505 3 года назад

So glad you included Poison Ivy ❤️

@mccuish 3 года назад

I've been listening to a lot of female Jrock groups and there are a lot of very good japanese female guitarist. 2 good examples are Lovebites and Bandmaid

@WagonerVT 3 года назад

Overated

3 года назад

BAND MAID is our favorite impossibly hard rocking maid band!!!

@nevskislake Год назад

Mike Igarashi from Show-Ya is highly underrated.

@robbates8874 4 дня назад

I had the great pleasure of meeting Jennifer Batten back in 2004. She was the most down-to-Earth, chill, real musician I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. The South Park fun was epic!

@MarcGaerlan 6 месяцев назад

Juliana Hatfield has an amazing body of work. Her rhythm guitar playing, her riffs, are varied and fantastic.

@ttc9able 3 года назад

I got to witness an incredible solo number from Nita Strauss when I went with my dad to see Alice Cooper perform at the Queen Elizabeth theater in Vancouver when he won tickets from the Paranormal tour in 2018. She is definitely well deserved to be on this list.

@tooshay4me 2 года назад

Nancy Wilson is the best, but that’s just because Heart stole my heart since I was in high school.

@hungerforhorror 3 года назад

I'm so happy that you included Kuehnemund and Robertson. They are grossly overlooked. Lzzy Hale is also great.

@gloriarogers5182 3 года назад

Sister Rosetta Tharp OMG i never thought but i love it that is HISTORY right there.

@cmdonnie1445 3 года назад

Woah... how many ovation guitars here!?! Nancy my pick for #1

@andrewwatts970 3 года назад

Yet again Elizabeth Cotten gets forgotten in the history of guitar. That’s a crime.

@ghettohoney1028 3 года назад

Agreed. A whole style was named in her honor. She was self-taught and had a unique way of playing.

@JohnJohnson-cn9fh 3 года назад

nice one andrew.jpj

@Peeinthesink 3 года назад

Fuck I was hoping she was #1

@RaiDezignz 2 года назад

Great Vid...some awesome women out there! I do think you need to check out some of Melissa Etheridge's live performances though...pretty sure she deserves a rank among these women other than just an honorable mention....the woman rocks an acoustic!

@tesszerme1480 3 года назад

Lita and Nancy ❤️❤️❤️❤️

@arongamman9360 2 года назад

Your male guitar player list was fairly typical, but this list really uncovered some people I'd never heard of or would never place on this kind of list. Congrats to everyone who composed it!

@filipeluisfernandesgoncalv138 3 года назад

someday myiako watanabe,midori tatematsu from lovebites and kanami tono from band maid will be on a similar list like this one not forgetting captain mina taicho from fate gear !

@acenashton7296 3 года назад

Glad Jan made it on this list, she’s a personal hero to me. She may not be the most popular guitar player but her band’s music music really speaks to and for me. She and her rock sisters help me deal with depression and cleared my mind where I felt sane again. I find her solos to be unique and true talent.

@Loy.Francis 3 года назад

Same here. As a Vixen fan, I am happy to see Jan made the list.

@b.m.8513 3 года назад

Killer list 🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻

@barbarabavier675 3 года назад

Nope, got it wrong. Nancy Wilson should ABSOLUTELY be #1.

@deplorablepatriot8605 2 года назад

It's a tough call, Sister Rosetta Tharpe vs. Nancy Wilson; Nancy isn't about flash, style, shredding, or sex, she's completely serious about music, but she manages to remain feminine without the corset and leotard look of many... besides, how many other female lead guitarists wear dresses on stage? AND, if and when she retires--if she actually DOES retire--she will have earned a well-deserved #1 female guitarist ranking, to say nothing of already being in the top 5 of all guitarists, male OR female.

@danielshannon6027 4 месяца назад

She's too much of a show off.

@Tuscadero10 3 года назад

The Clip of Heart performing "if looks could Kill" is not Heart, its a tribute band.

@jdmoncada8205 3 года назад

A refreshingly well-rounded list!

@DanielGarcia-cq6gd 3 года назад

we needed this sooner

@davidpeck3555 3 года назад

I wish Kanami Tōno from Band Maid had made the list! Her ability is amazing! Maybe if you make a 2nd part you can include or if you do bassists MISA from Band Maid is a great choice

3 года назад

She is number one on my list ;) . Misa could definitely be considered one of the top bassists in the world, male or female.

@andreaspedersen3952 2 года назад

Yes, both her and M&M, Saki, Tomo-zo, Hal-ca, Lisa-X ++ could easily have done the list.

@markhunter8554 Год назад

I was wondering if someone else would mention Mincho.

@melxoxo411 3 года назад

St Vincent is so unique, a true artist

@adamkreuz9068 3 года назад

This was a really really good list, loved it! I'd like to add Siouxsie Medley from Dead Sara

@gnasty9178 3 года назад

Rock guitarists*. These lists never fail to leave out jazz, alternative, most blues, funk, and any other genre.

@colinoakes4689 3 года назад

Lzzy Hale!!!! Hale yeah!!!!!! A truly underrated rhythm goddess!!!! 🤘🤘🤘

@sjw4life546 3 года назад

Memphis Minnie is one of those "your favorite guitarists, favorite guitarist" that often gets overlooked.

@amarettopunsch1496 3 года назад

Yasss mah dude Lzzardo (Lzzy Hale) is here! ❤️❤️❤️ thanks for including her. She is definitely one of the kinds alongside Joe Hottinger that makes me wanna pick up a guitar! Apart from Lzzy, I would say Nita Strauss is a badass shredder

@abhishakedas 3 года назад

A good watchmojo list after a long while.

@isaacmartinez6904 3 года назад

Bonnie Raitt, June Carter Cash and Dolly Parton are my favorites.

@mkproductions2.042 3 года назад

I did not even realize Dolly Parton knew how to play guitar. I used to listen to her often as a kid.

@theresaiwright7085 3 года назад

@@mkproductions2.042 she uses her fingernails to play the guitar instead of a pick.

@tjwash5118 3 года назад

You’d probably like Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams’ guitar skills as well, they fall in this category.

@daimonhampton 3 года назад

As a person that grew up seeing the same people featured on greatest guitarist of all time list and wondering were the woman at it's nice this list exist.

@NachoTimelord 2 месяца назад

Aww yes! Love seeing some different entries on theses lists...Lzzy Hale often gets overlooked!

@felipelovecraft1767 3 года назад

So many great talented on this list.

@jamesbedford3774 3 года назад

Gabriela was a great pick. If you ever get the chance to see Rodrigo y Gabriela live, don't miss that chance. They'll blow your mind.

@ArtWave879 3 года назад

Good list. I would propose, however, another list focused just on female guitarists in Japan because the talent pool over there is overflowing these days almost to the point of absurdity.

@cius2112 3 года назад

I mean i could name several off the top of my head that are better then most of the most of the women on this list.

3 года назад

Kanami Tono!

@janetrickwood2484 Год назад

Rosetta Tharpe should've been given a whole song. She was a true legend and trailblazer. I'd listen to her guitar playing any day. Masterful.

@marcello7781 3 года назад

Amazing artists

@abrahamesparza01 3 года назад

Jane Weidlin or Vicki Peterson or Louise Post

@Scholtinator 3 года назад

Great list. But I think the lead guitarist Kanami Tōno, and their rhythm guitarist Miku Kobato from BAND-MAID needs a look. Also their Bass guitarist Misa is god tier.