A new guitar hero every day

• Jimi Hendrix — The man who turned feedback and fuzz into a new language
• Eric Clapton — The blues purist who carried Chicago tone into rock's mainstream
• Jimmy Page — Riff architect and studio wizard who built Led Zeppelin's hammer
• Jeff Beck — The guitarist's guitarist who made the Stratocaster sing like a voice
• David Gilmour — Master of tone and space whose every bend tells a story
• Eddie Van Halen — The tinkerer who turned the fretboard into a two-handed launchpad
• Stevie Ray Vaughan — The Texas storm who put the blues back on the charts
• B.B. King — The king who proved one perfectly bent note can say everything
• Chuck Berry — The architect whose double-stop intros became rock and roll's alphabet
• Keith Richards — The riff master who made five strings and open G roll
• Pete Townshend — The windmilling visionary who turned volume, feedback and story into rock art
• Brian May — A homemade guitar, a sixpence and orchestras of layered melody
• Tony Iommi — The riff master who forged heavy metal from injury and invention
• Slash — Top hat, Les Paul and melodies that made hard rock sing again
• Angus Young — The schoolboy dynamo who made rock and roll loud, lean and electric
• Randy Rhoads — The classical-minded prodigy who gave heavy metal a conservatory education
• Duane Allman — Slide guitar that sang like a voice and soared like jazz
• Carlos Santana — Latin rhythm, blues fire and spiritual yearning in every sustained note
• Mark Knopfler — Fingerpicked storytelling that made every note count
• Prince — A funk genius whose guitar could out-burn any rock hero
• Kirk Hammett — The wah-soaked lead voice of the world's biggest metal band
• Dimebag Darrell — The Texas groove-metal wildman who rebuilt heavy guitar's swagger
• Yngwie Malmsteen — The Swedish virtuoso who fused Paganini's fire with heavy metal
• Steve Vai — Guitar's otherworldly visionary, equal parts virtuoso, composer and inventor
• Joe Satriani — The teacher turned superstar who made instrumental rock guitar sing
• John Petrucci — Progressive metal's master architect of precision, melody and endurance
• Zakk Wylde — Bullseye Les Paul, pinch harmonics and southern-fried heavy metal muscle
• Ritchie Blackmore — Hard rock's dark wizard, who fused Bach with blistering riffs
• Gary Moore — Belfast's fiery virtuoso who made every note cry, from metal to blues
• Peter Green — The Green God, whose silence spoke louder than any shredder
• Rory Gallagher — A battered Strat, a plaid shirt, and no rock-star pretence whatsoever
• Johnny Winter — Texas lightning: the fastest, fiercest slide in blues rock
• Albert King — The Velvet Bulldozer whose bends could flatten a room
• Freddie King — The Texas Cannonball who taught British blues rock to roar
• Buddy Guy — Chicago blues' wildest showman and its last great living link
• Muddy Waters — The man who plugged the Delta into Chicago and electrified the blues
• Robert Johnson — Twenty-nine songs that became the foundation stone of rock guitar
• Django Reinhardt — Two working fingers, one fearless imagination, and European jazz was born
• Wes Montgomery — A bare thumb and blazing octaves that redefined jazz guitar
• Les Paul — The guitarist-inventor who built the tools modern music is made with
• Chet Atkins — Mister Guitar, who made one pair of hands sound like two
• Pat Metheny — The jazz guitarist who made improvisation sound like wide-open landscapes
• John McLaughlin — The fusion firebrand who fused rock volume, jazz harmony and Indian rhythm
• Allan Holdsworth — The guitarist who made the guitar sound like a saxophone
• Paco de Lucía — The man who split flamenco history into before and after
• Tom Morello — The guitarist who made six strings sound like a turntable
• Jack White — Raw Delta blues rewired through Detroit garage-rock fuzz
• John Frusciante — Melody, restraint and feeling at the heart of funk rock
• Jerry Garcia — The improviser who turned every concert into a journey
• Neil Young — Feedback, fury and feeling from rock's most restless songwriter
• Mick Ronson — The glam-rock guitar hero who made Ziggy Stardust soar
• Alex Lifeson — Rush's architect of ringing chords and exotic, effects-drenched solos
• Steve Howe — Progressive rock's great guitar polymath, fluent in every style
• Robert Fripp — King Crimson's relentless innovator of precision, loops and sustain
• Frank Zappa — The composer-satirist whose solos were spontaneous symphonies
• George Benson — The bebop virtuoso who carried jazz guitar onto pop radio
• Joe Pass — The man who made one jazz guitar sound like an orchestra
• Al Di Meola — Jazz-rock's speed king who fell in love with Mediterranean rhythm
• Adrian Belew — The guitarist who taught his instrument to roar, squeal and sing
• Nuno Bettencourt — Funk-metal firepower with a pop songwriter's heart
• Paul Gilbert — The joyful shredder who made blinding speed sound playful and melodic
• Marty Friedman — Exotic scales and fearless bends that reshaped thrash metal soloing
• Dave Mustaine — Thrash metal's sharpest riff architect and its most relentless survivor
• Derek Trucks — The modern master of slide guitar, fusing blues, soul and raga
• Warren Haynes — Southern rock's tireless workhorse, equally at home with blues, soul and jams
• Joe Bonamassa — The tireless torchbearer who carried British blues-rock into a new century
• John Mayer — The pop star who smuggled real blues guitar into the charts
• Gary Clark Jr. — Austin's fuzz-soaked bridge between old blues and modern soul
• Eric Johnson — The tone perfectionist whose violin-like leads redefined instrumental rock
• Guthrie Govan — The musician's musician who can play anything, in any style, flawlessly
• Billy Gibbons — Texas boogie, fat tone and the sly art of leaving space
• Joe Walsh — Rock's funniest guitar hero, with riffs as serious as they come
• Dickey Betts — The melodic heart of Southern rock's greatest twin-guitar band
• Lindsey Buckingham — A pickless fingerstyle wizard who turned pop into sonic architecture
• Brian Setzer — The Gretsch-slinging cat who revived rockabilly and swing twice
• Link Wray — The man who turned one menacing chord into rock's blueprint
• Dick Dale — The King of the Surf Guitar, who played like a crashing wave
• Scotty Moore — The guitarist who gave Elvis Presley's rock and roll its spark
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe — The Godmother of Rock and Roll, who electrified gospel
• Bonnie Raitt — Slide guitar's most soulful voice, singing blues with grace and grit
• Nita Strauss — Arena-sized shred with a showwoman's instinct for the big moment
• St. Vincent — Art-rock auteur who made the guitar sound alien and exciting again
• Mdou Moctar — Tuareg psych-rock firebrand who carried desert guitar onto the world's stages
• Ali Farka Touré — The Niger River bluesman who revealed the African roots of the blues
• Tosin Abasi — Eight-string visionary who turned slap-guitar and polyrhythm into progressive art
• Tim Henson — The nylon-string virtuoso who fused shred guitar with trap-era production
• Mike McCready — Grunge's great lead guitarist, channeling Hendrix fire into anthems
• Jerry Cantrell — Architect of Alice in Chains' dark riffs and eerie harmonies
• Johnny Marr — Indie guitar's master of shimmering arpeggios and layered melody
• The Edge — The delay-drenched sound painter behind U2's soaring anthems
• Richie Sambora — The arena-rock melodist whose talk box and hooks powered Bon Jovi
• Neal Schon — The teenage prodigy who became Journey's soaring melodic voice
• Ace Frehley — Kiss's Spaceman, who made rock guitar a smoking spectacle
• Michael Schenker — The Flying V virtuoso who wrote hard rock's most melodic solos
• Uli Jon Roth — The Hendrix disciple who pioneered neoclassical rock guitar
• Tommy Emmanuel — One acoustic guitar that sounds like a whole band
• Billy Strings — Bluegrass flatpicking with the volume and daring of a rock show
• Molly Tuttle — The flatpicker who rewrote who wins bluegrass guitar awards
• Albert Collins — The Iceman, whose Telecaster cut like a blade
• T-Bone Walker — The man who made electric guitar the star of the blues