
Thus it does not include musicians who have served primarily as “sidemen” or “sidewomen.” Some of the greatest musicians in rock history have never received the recognition they deserve because they contribute mostly to others’ recordings. This is the only category that is submitted to the voting body each year. One other note: This list considers only artists who recorded primarily under their own names. You’ll find more of the latter in part two. For this first round, we concentrated nearly exclusively on artists from the ’50s-’70s that haven’t been nominated yet, including only a few from the ’80s-’90s. In order to be eligible, an artist must have made their first recording 25 years prior to the current year (for the 2021 class, that means 1996).

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