Shame on you for not leading that rock guitarist list with Carl Perkins....
Jim Fowler did all the work
I would expect someone to chide b=me about forgetting Fats Waller for the piano, but I forgot about Perkins for the guitar.
In my college music course, I compare Muzio Clementi and Beethoven to Orville Gibson and Les Paul, in that Clementi designs the piano to fit what Beethoven wanted to write for it in the early 1800s, and Gibson designs the electric guitar to fit what Les Paul wanted to write for it--and the original Les Paul guitar comes out in 1952, essentially the year rock-and-roll was born.