Guitarists

Birth name: Saul Hudson Born: July 23, 1965 – Hampstead, London, England Years active: 1981 – Official site: http://slashonline.com/ Slash’s social media: Facebook, Youtube, Twitter Slash is a self-taught guitarist. How did he do it you ask? He listened to records and tried to mimic what he heard. He would practice for 12 hours a day! One of the first songs he…

Birth name: Jack Johnson Born: May 18, 1945, North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii, U.S. Years active: 1999- Official site: www.jackjohnsonmusic.com Jack Johnson is a singer/songwriter/surfer/environmentalist and a father of 3. His main genre is acoustic soft rock, and he plays it in a really nice, mellow sort of way. His music is unique in that he mixes a wide variety of…

Birth name: Carlos Santana Born: July 20, 1947 – Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico Years active: 1966 – Official site: http://www.santana.com/ Santana’s social media: Facebook, Twitter The sound of Santana’s guitar playing is one of the most recognizable in the world. He pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin music, that is still characteristic of his style today. He…

Birth name: Charles Anderson Edward Berry Born: October 18, 1926 – St. Louis, Missouri, USA Died: March 18, 2017 (age 90) Years active: 1955 – 2017 Official site: http://www.chuckberry.com Chuck Berry’s nickname is “Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll”. You don’t get a nickname like that for nothing. He refined R&B and blues into the major elements that became known as rock…

Birth name: Eric Patrick Clapton Born: March 30, 1945, Ripley, Surrey, England Years active: 1962- Official site: http://www.ericclapton.com/ Eric Clapton is one of the greatest guitarists of all time, he is currently at spot #2 on the Rolling Stones Top 100 Guitarist list. He never simply replicated the blues riffs he heard on records, rather incorporated…

Birth name: Johnny Allen Hendrix Born: November 27, 1942, Seattle, Washington, US Died: September 18, 1970 (age 27) Years active: 1960-1970 Official site: http://www.jimihendrix.com/ Jimi Hendrix is considered, by many, to have been one of the best guitar players of all time. He learned to play guitar as a teenager and grew up to become a…

Birth name: Riley B. King Born: September 16, 1925, Itta Bena, Mississippi, USA Died: May 15, 2015 (age 89) Years active: 1948 – 2015 Official site: http://www.bbking.com The legendary B.B. King is unquestionably the King of the Blues. He is one of the most important electric guitarists of the last 50 years, shaping music as we…