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Jennifer Turner is an excellent rock guitar player. She can me heard on Natalie Merchant's "TigerLily" album. I finds she posseses a subtlety that many male guitarists lack.
She has already been mentioned in this thread, but I think Ani DiFranco is an amazing guitarist. Granted, I know little about it. I took a guitar class one semester and I was perfectly awful. So it's safe to say that I wouldn't recognize how, say...Jimi Hendrix is better than Ani (I'm a fan of both, though), because there's so much I don't know about it. All I can say is that Ani often blows me away.
Do not despair, Padgett 2. Djanjo Reinhardt became a world class guitarist despite having lost some of the fingers on his left hand. And Lenny Breau does some fantastic things by turning his chording hand palm down instead of reaching around the neck.
Oops! It was Stanley Jordan I saw doing that and not Lenny Breau.
To the OP's point, good question. You never hear many (if any) female names on the Top 100 greatest guitarist lists. There are lots of them out there, though.
Typically those lists don't go any further than Slash i.e. 80s. There have been loads of great guitarists since. Orianthi is one of them i.e. a female.
Many great female guitarists already mentioned. Courtney Love was a great guitar player before she became a professional train-wreck. Joni Mitchell, Gabriela Quintero (of Rodrigo y Gabriela), Joan Armatrading, Liz Phair.
I always liked Linda Perry from 4 non blondes and describe her often as a a female Lenny Kravitz in the way she plays and her sound. Perry also wrote songs for other people, most notably, Beautiful for Christina Aguilera and her influence was profound for the album on which it appears.
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