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Celebrating Chester Burton “Chet” Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), known as “The Country Gentleman”, an American guitarist and record producer who created the country music style known as the Nashville sound.

Celebrating Lowell Thomas George (April 13, 1945 – June 29, 1979), an American guitarist and singer from Hollywood, CA, who was the primary guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the rock band Little Feat.

Celebrating Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten (née Nevills) (January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987), an American blues and folk musician. A self-taught left-handed guitarist, Cotten developed her own original style and played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but played it upside down.

Celebrating Joe Maphis, born Otis W. Maphis (May 12, 1921 – June 27, 1986) from Suffolk, VA, one of the flashiest country guitarists of the 1950s and 1960s, known as The King of the Strings.

Celebrating Geoffrey Arnold “Jeff” Beck (born June 24, 1944), an English rock guitarist born in Wallington, Surrey, England, UK.

Celebrating John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001), an American blues singer and guitarist born in Tutwiler, MS who rose to prominence playing an electric guitar adaptation of Delta blues, incorporating a driving-rhythm boogie style, talking blues, and early North Mississippi Hill country blues.

Celebrating Grace Potter (born June 20, 1983), an American guitarist, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Waitsfield, VT who formed Grace Potter and the Nocturnals in 2002.

Celebrating Chester Burton “Chet” Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), known as “The Country Gentleman”, an American guitarist and record producer who created the country music style known as the Nashville sound.

Celebrating Ramón Montoya (November 2, 1879 – June 20, 1949), Flamenco guitarist born in Madrid, Spain into a family of Gitano (Romani) cattle traders.

Celebrating Ernest Ranglin OD (born June 19, 1932), a Jamaican guitarist who established his career while working as a session guitarist and music director for various Jamaican record labels.