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Carl Kress
American musician
1
Roger McGuinn
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
2
Elmer Snowden
American musician
3
Eddie Lang
American jazz guitarist
4
Bernard Addison
American jazz guitarist
5
Lonnie Donegan
Scottish-born skiffle musician
6
Stevie Ray Vaughan
American guitarist, songwriter and recording artist
7
John Driskell Hopkins
American singer-songwriter
8
Django Reinhardt
Belgian-born Romani French jazz guitarist and composer
9
Mary Osborne
American musician
10
Vassar Clements
American musician
11
Frank Teschemacher
American musician
12
The Stanley Brothers
American bluegrass duo
13
George Benson
American recording artist, guitarist, singer, and songwriter
14
Béla Fleck
American banjo player
15
Jimmy McPartland
American cornetist
16
Blood, Sweat & Tears
American rock music band
17
The Quarrymen
British skiffle/rock and roll group, formed by John Lennon in Liverpool in 1956
18
Mundell Lowe
American jazz guitarist (1922-2017)
19
Billy Bauer
American jazz guitarist
20
Charlie Christian
American swing and jazz guitarist
21
Mel Bay
American musician
22
Dick McDonough
American musician
23
The Dubliners
Irish folk band
24
Diz Disley
Anglo-Canadian musician
25
John McLaughlin
English guitarist, bandleader, and composer; founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra
26
Nappy Lamare
American musician
27
Art Ryerson
American musician
28
Bud Scott
American jazz guitarist, banjoist and singer
29
Jeff Beck
English rock guitarist
30
Buddy Tate
American musician
31
Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
32
Lightnin' Hopkins
American country blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
33
Pat Metheny
American jazz musician
34
Emanuel Sayles
American musician
35
Frank Vignola
American guitarist
36
Ralph Stanley
American singer
37
Fred Van Eps
American banjoist
38
Eric Weissberg
American musician
39
Ry Cooder
American guitarist, singer and composer
40
Pure Prairie League
American country rock band
41
Fred Guy
American musician
42
Clarence Ashley
American musician
43
Frank Hamilton
American musician
44
Bill Black
American bassist
45
Chet Atkins
American guitarist and record producer
46
Jaco Pastorius
American jazz bassist, producer, educator
47
Jim & Jesse
American bluegrass duo
48
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
49
John Hartford
American singer-songwriter and musician
50
Arthur Smith
American country musician, songwriter and producer
51
Bucky Pizzarelli
American Jazz guitarist
52
Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
53
Johnny Smith
American jazz guitarist
54
Bill Monroe
American bluegrass musician, songwriter
55
Jerry Garcia
American musician and member of the Grateful Dead
56
Chris Barber
English trombonist
57
Jimmy Raney
American musician
58
Bob Carter
American bassist
59
Zac Brown Band
American country/folk band
