These Women Have Staked Their Claims as Top Lead Guitarists

Nori Bucci

Bucci is one of the fastest players to date. She has released three solo albums while also playing in the band Gamalon. She's since taken a break from music to focus on her other creative outlets, but guitar will always be her first love. She plays on a '96 Fender Stratocaster.

Maybelle Carter

Carter coined a revolutionary picking style that's still widely used today called the "Carter Stratch," or "Carter Family Picking" or "Thumb Brush Picking. Her legendary Gibson L-5 is now housed in the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. Her influence over the country music genre runs so deep that it simply would not be the same without her.