These Female Guitarists Shred Like No Other

Oumou Sangare: "Moussolou"

The potent debut from Ivory Coast singer Oumou Sangare came out when she was just 21 years old. She criticized women’s general subservience to men, and promptly sold a reported 200,000-plus copies of the cassette across West Africa. 

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The More You Know

  • “A Boy Named Sue” wasn’t written by Johnny Cash. Shel Silverstein wrote it.
  • Layne Staley asked Jerry Cantrell to play in a funk band and agreed to sing in Cantrell’s band in exchange. The funk band didn’t last but Cantrell’s band became Alice in Chains.
  • Before they became (arguably) the biggest pop act of all time, The Beatles had a hard time convincing record labels to sign them. In 1962, they were rejected by Decca Records, whose boss said “guitar groups are on the way out.”
  • Panic! at the Disco started out as a Blink-182 cover band.
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