
This seemed to follow him in his early career, as record executives found his style to be “just a bunch of noise.” But eventually, Buddy Guy’s six-stringing broke through, as his blues style became popularized. He didn’t stay at home long, as it’s said that his family kicked him promptly due to all the noise. George Guy, better known as Buddy Guy, was born in Louisiana on July 30, 1936. She’s very much known and respected for songs like “I Had a King,” “Nathan La Franeer” and “Night in the City.” She is one hell of a songwriter, too 39 Buddy Guy Mitchell was known to write her songs with the same chords but in different tunings, including one song that had 50 different variations. 75 spot for top guitarists, but she is higher on this list due to her unique style of tuning her guitar to get different sounds out of every chord. Rolling Stone magazine placed Mitchel in the No. Roberta Joan Anderson, better known as Joni Mitchell, was born in Alberta, Canada on Nov. He rocked the world with songs like “Dark Star,” “Sugaree” and “Casey Jones,” and also played at Woodstock in August 1969, where he almost got electrocuted because of rain. As figurehead leader of the Grateful Dead, Garcia cast a heavy influence on the cultural scene in San Francisco in the early 1960s, through the “Summer of Love” and up until his untimely passing in 1995. Garcia is the sum of a fusion of different sounds, as listeners can hear hints of Spanish guitar, bluegrass, jazz and rock ‘n’ roll in his playing. Jerome John Garcia, known to Deadheads simply as “Jerry,” was born in San Francisco on Aug. He rocked it with tracks like “Blitzkrieg Bop,” “Judy Is a Punk” and “Rockaway Beach.” 41. That’s cool.’” That’s because the guitar player for the Ramones was one of the first to play powerful, heavy music up-tempo. Henry Rollins once said, “Johnny was the first guitar player I ever saw play like he was really mad. He’s probably played fewer solos in his career than anyone else on our list, but Ramone is another pioneer nonetheless, epitomized in the way he played his Mosrite guitar. John William Cummings, oft-referred to as Johnny Ramone, was born in Queens on Oct.
