# Sister Ray guitar solo > Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison's guitar solo on Sister Ray by The Velvet Underground (1968) starts at about 2:00. From the album White Light/White Heat. Canonical URL: The Velvet Underground, 1968, from *White Light/White Heat*. Solo by *Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison*. A 17-minute, single-take storm of distorted guitar and organ that fed into much of later noise and drone rock. Sister Ray by The Velvet Underground is ranked #481 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison and the song was released in 1968. It appears on 1 lists, placing as high as #95 (uDiscover Music). ## In our lists - [The Best Lou Reed Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/lou-reed-guitar-solos/) — #2 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1968](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1968/) — #12 ## Sources - [uDiscover Music: The Best Guitar Solos Of All Time: 108 Amazing Moments](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/best-guitar-solos-ever/) — #95 ### Who played the guitar solo on Sister Ray? Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison played the solo on The Velvet Underground's Sister Ray (1968). ### Where does Sister Ray rank among the greatest guitar solos? #481 in the GreatestSolos consensus of 80 published lists; it appears on 1 of them. --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)