Steve Vai Steven Siro Vai (/vaɪ/; born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, composer, singer, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner and fifteen-time nominee, Vai started his music career in 1978 at the age of eighteen as a transcriptionist for Frank Zappa and played in Zappa’s band from 1980 to 1983. He…
Jeff Baxter Jeffrey Allen “Skunk” Baxter (born December 13, 1948) is an American guitarist, known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s and Spirit in the 1980s. More recently, he has worked as a defense consultant and chaired a Congressional Advisory Board on missile defense. Jeffrey…
Vince Gill Vincent Grant Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American country singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country-rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed…
Eric Clapton Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and of Cream. Clapton has been referred to…
Guitarists 2000s Brad Paisley Derek Trucks Gary Clark Jack White Joe Bonamassa John Mayer Dan Auerbach Iron & Wine Jesper Stromblad Misha Mansoor Omar Rodriguez Lopez Sufjan Stevens Synyster Gates
Guitarists 1970s Albert Lee Angus Young Billy Gibbons Brian May Carlos Santana Cat Stevens David Lindley Don Felder Duane Allman Earl Klugh Eddie Van Halen George Benson Ike Turner James Taylor Larry Carlton Jeff Beck Jimmie Vaugan JJ Cale Joe Walsh Lowell George Ry Cooder Mark Knopfler Mick Taylor Peter Tosh Robben Ford Skunk Baxter…