International Women's Day - favourite female guitarist (or bass player)

[mr natural]

Nori Bucci is way up there. Very tasteful shredder out of Buffalo.

 

[Hey_you]

Tina Weymouth

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[kookaburra]

Johnette Napolitano, bassit and LV for Concrete Blonde.

 

[srblue5]

Emily Remler
Molly Miller
Sue Foley
Ana Popovic
Ana Vidović

 

[Engine Swap]

 

[aging_rocker]

Laura Lee - Yes!

 

[aging_rocker]

Hey, what about lady drummers? Or even entire bands of ladies?

Nic Crawshaw and the rest of Los Bitchos

 

[CalebAaron666]

Hello, The Cramps, Poison Ivy for me - the inheritor of Link Wray and Duane Eddy - so fantastic.

I read somewhere that Poison Ivy owns a Telecaster which she says she loves although it's not her style (the Gretsch 6120 being her 'ultimate style') but I have never seen a photograph of her with it or seen any other reference to it.

Ivy is my guitar Idol.
I modified my Gretsch 6120 into a bit of an Ivy tribute model based on the look and sound of her 58.

TV Jones “Ray Butts Ful-Fidelity” Filter-Trons for the vintage tone
1958 style pickup rings
Ivy signature in place of Chet’s on the Pickguard
Stay Sick truss rod cover
Bigsby B3 instead of a B6
It plays well and sounds amazing.

 

[aging_rocker]

The ever-wonderful Polly Jean...with a Tele!

 

[Cosmic Cowboy]

Bonnie Rait plays a mean guitar.

 

[aging_rocker]

Lesley Woods (guitar, vocals) and Jane Munro (bass) were half of the long-forgotten (except by me) Au Pairs. I saw them in the Marquee Club in 1981.

This was filmed around that time:

 

[howardlo]

Bass player (easy) - Carol Kaye

Guitar - Bonnie Rait

 

[aging_rocker]

The multi-talented Tash Sultana has recently done an 'unplugged' recording.
She does get the loud guitars out towards the end of this though.

 

[teletimetx]

Carolyn Wonderland
Kaki King
Maybelle Carter
Cindy Cashdollar
Barbara Mandrell (pedal steel)
And many mentioned above

But Emily Remler is one of my most favorites

 

[gimmeatele]

The superb Gail Anne Dorsey on bass.

 

[RobRiggs]

Joanna Dudkowska. Thumpin’ bass goddess

 

[RobRiggs]

And Hurricane Nita!

 

[jimmywrangles]

Samantha Fish, best I've heard in a long time. She understands blues and rock.

 

[fishingrhod]

Debbie Googe, Hozoji Matheson-Margullis, Shannon Wright, and PJ Harvey would be my ultimate female supergroup.

 

[donrichfan]

Britta Phillips isn’t really a favorite, but a solid sender on bass I suppose. And I haven’t seen her mentioned.