Aug 28, 2003 • 1 min read

Jimi Hendrix tops Rolling Stone’s greatest guitarists list

Rolling Stone’s latest greatest guitarists survey places Jimi Hendrix first, ahead of Duane Allman, BB King and Eric Clapton, with few women featured.

The latest (and these things appear quite frequently these days) survey into who is/was the greatest guitarist ever has awarded the top spot, somewhat unsurprisingly, to Jimi Hendrix beating Duane Allman from the Allman Brothers to the number one spot in the Rolling Stone chart. BB King came third and Eric Clapton fourth.

Once again poor representation of women in the chart – with only Joni Mitchell and Joan Jett appearing (at 72 and 87 respectively).

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