These Female Guitarists Shred Like No Other

Carmen Vandenberg

Schooled at London’s Academy of Contemporary Music, yet steeped in the blues, Vandenberg is forging a new approach to rock guitar. She was recently Jeff Beck’s co-guitarist, and her band Bones incorporates the blues into modern rock—with some hip-hop and punk attitude thrown in—recalling the dismissal of musical categories displayed by the Yardbirds after they hired a certain young guitarist. Full circle?

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