“As a female blues guitar player from Canada ... and one of the first guitars people might have heard on record. “She’s best known for the Carter scratch, which she played with metal ...

Described by blues-rock titan ... to do was get on my guitar and get on the laptop and just study videos of all these guitarists and just play. The guitar became my best friend in a way.

Similarly, while he's received three W.C. HandyAwards (the “blues Grammies”) as well as a 1982 Best Blues Recording ... “Every time I hear a guitar player, he be puttin' that B.B. lick ...

"Johnny Winter showed me a lot,” said the guitarist, who died May 26. Little did he know he would himself prove influential ...