Greatest Canadian Guitar Players: The List

Recently Rich Terfry on Drive mused about what a shortlist of the best Canadian guitar players might be like, and his off-the-cuff remark resulted in a hundred or so responses! On Friday, Rich played music from the shortlist on the show.

As a little accompaniment the Radio 2 Blog posted Who Are The Greatest Canadian Guitar Players? And in response to that a couple of you asked to see the entire list of great Canadian guitar players as suggested by Radio 2 listeners/blog readers.

Here's what we have so far -- though feel free to send in more suggestions to this post, because obviously this is only a partial list.

TOP TWELVE GUITARISTS AS PICKED BY DRIVE LISTENERS:

* in no particular order*

Alex Lifeson (Rush)
Jeff Healey
Luke Doucet
Robbie Robertson
Lenny Breau
Rik Emmett (Triumph)
Steve Dawson
Martin Tielli (Rheostatics)
Colin James
Colin Linden
Neil Young
Bruce Cockburn

AND THE REST:

Jack Semple
Kevin Breitt
Jesse Cook
Don Ross
Randy Bachman
Peter Elkas
Daniel Lanois
Sue Foley
Garnet Rogers
Joni Mitchell
Liona Boyd
Ed Bickert
Norbert Kraft
Kim Mitchell
Duane Andrews
Steve Dawson
Red Shea
Hank Snow
Chet Breau
Lorne Lofsky
Ted Quinlan
Sonny Greenwich
Brian Hughes
Sean Bray
Neil Chapman
Zal Yanovsky
Domenic Troiano
Ken Hamm
Gordon Lightfoot
Frank Marino
Oscar Lopez
Kevin LaLiberte
Scott Bradshaw
Alpha Ya Ya Diallo
Madagascar Slim
Andrew Whiteman
Chris Smith
Rachelle Van Zanten
Stephen Fearing
Robert Michaels
Pavlo
Matt Osborne
Shaun Verreault (Wide Mouth Mason)
Gordie Johnson (Big Sugar, Grady)
Lester Quitzau
Reg Shwager
Travis and Dallas Good
Jake Langley
John Richardson
Ken Carty
Amos Garrett
Chris Chown