Artist	Song
The Allman Brothers Band	In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Radiohead	Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Roy Buchanan	The Messiah Will Come Again
Television	Marquee Moon
Deep Purple	Highway Star
David Bowie	Panic In Detroit
Jefferson Airplane	Somebody To Love
Mickey & Sylvia	Love Is Strange
Free	All Right Now
Velvet Underground	I Heard Her Call My Name

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Here we are - at the halfway point with this, the fourth installment of eight in the list of the 100 greatest rock guitarists ever.

The first volume can be found here, and the second volume here, and the third here.


Quiz #2-For a free copy of the entire 8-volume set, answer this one. Black Cat Bones is linked to which guitarist?

Notes on the fourth volume
60 Dicky Betts: From 1969 to 1971, Duane Allman swooped and soared while Betts kept the music moving with lyrical boogie. After Duane's death, Betts handled both roles. He also wrote many of the Allman Brothers' best-known songs, including "Ramblin' Man" and the instrumental "Jessica."
59 Ed O'Brien, Jonny Greenwood: Radiohead's two lead guitarists have a symbiotic relationship. Greenwood is closer to a traditional lead man; those are his unwell bends at the end of "Just" and "Paranoid Android." O'Brien likes the wacky noises; the ghostly above-the-nut jangle on OK Computer's "Lucky" and the high, reverberating pops on Hail To The Thief's "2 + 2 = 5" are his handiwork. 58 Roy Buchanan: In 1971, a documentary about Roy Buchanan aired on public TV; it was called The Best Unknown Guitarist In The World. The title remains apt today. Buchanan's gritty blues-rock playing entranced other guitarists such as Jeff Beck. But the Washington D.C. virtuoso never caught the break he deserved, and in 1988, at age forty-eight, he took his own life while in jail for public drunkenness. 57 Tom Verlaine: There was punk energy propelling Television, but guitarist Tom Verlaine was no angry primitive hacking at the strings. He used a crisp, needling attack and favored long, carefully developed exchanges with guitarist Richard Lloyd. The result was music of Coltrane-like depth at a time when the spastic outburst was the norm. 56 Richie Blackmore: The Deep Purple and Rainbow leader is a master of both bottom-line riffs and jaw-dropping virtuoso flights. It's ironic that despite his classical leanings, this fine technician is best known for one of the most simple riffs of all time: Purple's "Smoke on the Water." 55 Mick Ronson: This working class lad from Northern Ireland lent musical substance to David Bowie's theatrical conceits in the Seventies. Ronson, who died in 1993, was the archetypal flash Brit guitarist, known for wrenched, physical solos that favor his hero, Jeff Beck. A sharp, sensitive accompanist, he worked with everyone from Bob Dylan to Morrissey.

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