Coleman then produced a string of blues albums that initiated her win of the Orville Gibson Award for “Best Blues Guitarist, Female” in 2001, and four nominations for the W.C. She strives to successfully combine her two obsessions by writing about the musicians and musical events that motivate and inspire her. Copyright © Simplemost, All Rights Reserved. In 1989, Raitt began making her anticipated commercial breakthrough.

CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. She has also recorded as Peter Karp & Sue…, Koko Taylor (September 28, 1928 - June 3, 2009) was an American blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." Despite the late professional start, and due to the folk revival of the 1960s, Cotten toured throughout the United States, playing shows the likes of the Newport Folk Festival (“The Kingston Trio Lineup, Biography”).

But young women are still driving 50 percent of new guitar sales.

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Davies has worked with the likes of Ike Turner, James Cotton, Rod Carey, and Mick Taylor. Victoria Shaffer's shockingly old soul explains her obsession with music history and passion for classic Rock 'n' Roll.

Though remembered as a sturdy pillar within Diddley’s legendary career, Jones deserves individual recognition as a forerunner within rhythm and blues music as well as an outstanding innovative female guitarist. In September of 1993, Davies debuted her first solo release, Picture This, which began a string of successful solo albums.

Etta Baker (March 31, 1913 – September 23, 2006) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer.

It’s not surprising that more girls and women are picking up guitars. -Tara Low, I’m acquainted with Danny Dudeckn (Mudcat), who played with her often, and saw her years ago at the Blind Willie McTell Blues Festival in my old home town. They still have the festival, but moved it from the Fall to May so it’s hot as Hades, plus the country doesn’t run it anymore and the guy that’s in charge of it is more of a fan of Americana than blues, so some years it looks more like a folk/ country concert with a few blues acts thrown in. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Her influence over musicians such as Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton prove Tharpe’s strong and lasting impression on music, which recently led to her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. “As a brand, we are committed to creating tools – both physical and digital – that this generation of creators needs for self-expression, now and in the future,” Fender CEO Andy Mooney told Consequence of Sound. When Jones eventually reunited with Diddley in 1970, the crowd was so overcome with excitement that they began chanting “Lady Bo,” cementing her beloved nickname and undeniable link to Bo Diddley.

Always evolving, Minnie took her traditional southern blues style and transitioned to Chicago, where she became one of the first performers to plug in and go electric.

Ruthie Foster is an American singer/songwriter of blues and folk music. Jones departed from Diddley’s band in 1961, forming her own group, The Jewels, who went on to become one of the most popular touring bands on the East Coast.

Yet, a new study released by Fender, one of the world’s most prominent guitar makers, found that women account for 50 percent of all beginner and aspirational players across the United States and the United Kingdom. After relocating to Chicago, it became apparent that Tharpe’s southern roots style began to absorb the chi-town blues sound, producing a unique and captivating quality to Tharpe’s music. Often underrated or unappreciated, several principle female innovators of blues music are equipped with a staggering amount of raw talent, undeniable moxie, and impressionable guitar skills. Talented, innovative or just plain entertaining, these six-stringers of the female variety know how to get the party rolling. With both parents as professional musicians, Debbie Davies’ introduction to the world of music occurred at an early age. But that influence, they believed, would be “short-term and aberrational,” Mooney added.

Etta Baker was taught how to play guitar and banjo by her father, a skill that had been passed down in their family for generations. As well as albums in her own name, she has…, Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. Leave feedback. I was fortunate enough to have seen her play several times in Atlanta.

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She won the Orville Gibson Award for…, Michelle Malone (born Atlanta, Georgia) is an American rock and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. You have entered an incorrect email address!

She is from Gause, Texas and from a family of gospel singers.

She went on to marry and have a child and would later on only occasionally play at church. Whether referencing the pioneers who excelled despite time periods that were oozing with racism, or pointing out those who maintained the blues tradition, never allowing the music to shed its important cultural components, each woman mentioned here successfully maneuvered through their path either shredding on their electric guitar for blues or strumming their acoustic, creating crucial and influential space for those women who hoped to follow in their wake.

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Continuing to be musical throughout her adolescence, Odetta eventually graduated from Los Angeles City College in 1950 with a degree in music. After first performing in the San Francisco Bay area, Davies returned to her native city of Los Angeles and began playing lead guitar in the all-female band, Maggie Mayall and the Cadillacs.

Her singles “Something to Talk About” and “I Can’t Make You Love Me” sold more than eight million copies in the United States, and in 2000, Raitt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Tracy Nelson (born in Madison, Wisconsin, on 27 December 1944) is an American singer. From Sister Rosetta Thorpe and Tracy Chapman to St. Vincent and Ellie Goulding, female guitarists have been shredding for centuries. At age 60, Baker decided to professionally pursue her musical career and went on to become a smash hit in the international folk-festival circuit.

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Deborah Coleman:  By Javier Díaz Barrera (originally posted to Flickr as Deborah Coleman) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons, Raitt:  By John Edwards (Flickr) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons, Debbie Davies:  By Tabercil [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons, Sadly, Beverly Watkins passed away Oct. 1, of this year. Soon after, Raitt was introduced to Dick Waterman, an established blues manager, who signed and quickly got her performing with some of the biggest names in blues music; Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and Mississippi Fred McDowell. Watkins spent the early 1960s performing rhythm guitar with Piano Red & the Interns. This relationship blossomed into a beautiful exchange of style and technique, to the point where it became nearly impossible to decipher the difference between Diddley and Jones’ sound.

Inspired by the successful female blues musicians of the 1930s and 40s, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins taught herself to play the guitar by listening to her mother’s records. She all but ceased live performances to raise her family, but in 1956, Baker contributed to Paul Clayton’s Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians.

Elizabeth Douglas, better known as Memphis Minnie, claimed her title as Queen of Country Blues by beginning her 200-song recording career in the 1920s. As a result, Fender plans to continue its commitment to developing products and marketing that draw in and reflect this growing consumer base. https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/atlanta-blues-woman-enjoyed-late-resurgence/MAH7Znzff7LcbI2XbPwJGO/, I know.