The 70's

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Another great Fleetwood Mac Guitarist, the late Danny Kirwan doing Dragonfly with the band

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Veering a bit more off, but a couple deserved mentions. Les Paul, his work developing a solid body guitar is well known, but he was the first to develop multi track recording. Check out his work with Mary Ford, they owned the charts before Elvis took over. Worth a good google if you find that kind of thing interesting.

Even further back, Django Reinhardt, 2 fingered wizard back when the strings were heavy gauge only.

If your are not familiar, worth a look, and some good listening to history.

I have recordings by both Django Reinhardt and Les Paul. Both are great and influential of course.

If I had to name one guy who started it all it would probably be Lonnie Johnson.

And what about T-bone Walker, Charlie Christian, the list goes on.