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American experimental guitarists

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Frank Zappa
American musician (1940–1993)
Lou Reed
American rock musician (1942–2013)
Daron Malakian
American rock musician
Lee Ranaldo
American rock musician (born 1956)
Buckethead
James "Munky" Shaffer
American guitarist (born 1970)
Glenn Branca
American composer and guitarist (1948-2018)
Chelsea Wolfe
American singer-songwriter
Marc Ribot
American musician
Arto Lindsay
American musician
Rhys Chatham
American composer
Henry Kaiser
American guitarist, film director, and scientific diver
Michael Gira
American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author and artist
Stan Ridgway
American singer-songwriter and film and television composer
Dylan Carlson
American guitarist
Jandek
Jandek is the musical project of Sterling Smith (born October 26, 1945), a Houston, Texas-based American lo-fi folk singer. Since 1978, Jandek has independently released over 120 albums while granting an interview extremely rarely and providing no biographical information, releasing on a self-made label, "Corwood Industries". Jandek often plays an idiosyncratic and frequently atonal form of folk and blues music, frequently using an open and unconventional chord structure. AllMusic has described Jandek as "the most enigmatic figure in American music."
Mark Sandman
Indie-rock musician, lead singer for band Morphine
Bryce Dessner
American composer and guitarist
Stephen O'Malley
American musician
Jacob Bannon
American singer
Tyondai Braxton
American musician
Scott Johnson
American composer (1952–2023)
Richard Bishop
American composer, guitar player and singer
Ben Weinman
American guitarist
Weasel Walter
American composer
Loren Mazzacane Connors
American musician
Alan Licht
American guitarist
Davey Williams
American musician