From Sister Rosetta and Ma Carter 75 years ago until today women guitarists are overlooked

[The Polack MSgt]

So, lets look at some who are six string masters today

Of course I will start with Molly

Cindy Cashdollar. Western swing will never die!

Ok, but I have a well documented obsession with Americana/Folk, what about women playing songs that you granddad wouldn't appreciate?

Well. Here's Nita Strauss

I like to think that if you blended Cindy and Nita together you would get Larkin Poe

Carolyn and Bonnie trading riffs on an over the top version of Blind Willie Johnson's "Nobody Fault But Mine " is a good stopping poin I figure

[highplainsdem]

1. I haven't been overlooking female guitarists.

I've posted OPs here with music from Molly Tuttle and Bonnie Raitt, whom you've already mentioned.

And Nancy Wilson, Erja Lyytinen, Orianthi, Susan Tedeschi, Laura Cox , Gaelle Buswel, Ally Venable...and I probably missed some skimming down the list of OPs I posted in the last year.

Plus a batch of lesser-known artists whose videos I posted in replies in this thread: https://democraticunderground.com/103478967

Erja Lyytinen is one of the greatest guitarists in the world. But there hasn't been much response here to any of my OPs about her.

EDITING to link to a thread about her that I posted in the Lounge, which did get more of a response than any of the several OPs I posted here. The Lounge thread, like the first OP I posted about her here, links to an article about her:

https://democraticunderground.com/10181622864

[The Polack MSgt]

2. I know that you and others here don't ignore talented women

But we don't control playlists or streaming algorithms

I missed that thread, thanks for the repost

[highplainsdem]

3. While you were posting your reply, I edited my post to link to

the thread about her I'd posted in the Lounge in February, which got more of a response.

I've posted 7 OPs about her here. No replies to any of them. There were 1-2 recs to some of them (not all), and I saw you recced one, and I appreciate that.

There isn't much traffic here compared to the large forums on DU, of course. And many of us don't bother to rec even music we like a lot, or take the time to post a reply, and I'm as guilty of that as anyone else.

But she's such an amazing guitarist I had hoped for more of a response to her videos.

[cemaphonic]

4. For the oldtimers, you can't forget Etta Baker or Elizabeth Cotton.

Carol Kaye too. She's better known as a bassist, but she also contributed tons of incredibly iconic guitar fills on hit songs too.

For the younger group, the bluegrass/folk world also has Courtney Hartman, here doing this great Norman Blake/Tony Rice tune:

&ab_channel=BourgeoisGuitars

[highplainsdem]

5. Sarge, Guitar Girl magazine has articles on a lot of female guitarists who are

new to me - and possibly to you.

Click this link for the first of 107 pages listing (and linking to) interviews going back 10 years:

https://guitargirlmag.com/category/interviews/

[The Polack MSgt]

6. I didn't even know this magazine existed. I will be reading it for sure

Thanks again cousin.

[Beausoleil]

7. I love watching this video

every couple of months.

I forget about Sierra Hull because she's such a great mandolin player, but the girl can play!