Some Other Guitarists

Rolling Stone this week published a now widely discussed list of “The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” and while I have little interest in debating its merits, I will use the opportunity to mention some other guitarist deserving of inclusion. (Also, it was great to see Yvette Young in there so prominently. She spoke in my sound class a few years ago — back when I was still teaching it — about her social media activity. Minor point, but I think she connected even more with younger fans on Instagram than on YouTube, as stated in the RS coverage, but I could be mistaken.) I think the following aren’t in the Rolling Stone listicle, but the website’s advertisements were playing weird with my web browser, so maybe I missed some of ’em. At first I didn’t see Adrian Belew, for example, but he is, of course, in there. I’ve included a bit of punctuation for emphasis:

Not new at all:
Derek Bailey
Elliot Easton !!!
Fred Frith
Henry Kaiser
Robert Lloyd !!
Elliot Randall !
Elliot Sharp

Not new, but not “old” either:
Eivind Aarset
Christian Fennesz
Ben Monder

Slightly “more new” than the above:
Julian Lage !
Sarah Lipstate
Ava Mendoza !
Jamie Stillway