...Hailed by many heavy guitar historians to be the world's greatest "stringbender", Christina R., an immigrant from Brazil, took the guitar to levels that have been unsurprassed even to this day.
...Christina was discovered in 1923, "wailing away" in a one-room shack deep in the Kentucky "backwoods" by then-famous guitar entrepreneur Michael J. Varnski of "Scrap Metal" records, who was responsible for producing her infamous debut disc entitled "Mean Guitar Swingin' Mama" at the legendary "HEEEEEEE HAWWWWW Studios" in Memphis. Varnski was able to capture her true guitar genius, the album was critically acclaimed and on trax like "White River Monster Rag", "Six String Stomp", "Big-ass Banjo Blues" and the 'scorching' title track, she brought the worldwide guitar community to its knees with her dizzying display of lightning fast triple staccato legato runs, elaborate 'spiderweb' sweep picking (hence the nickname), superhuman two-handed tapping with "3-toe" harmonies, all within the rather advanced "nyx-ylodian mode", it's a true heavy guitar "shred fest"! After Varnski's label folded in '27, she later went on to record a handful of 78s for the rather obscure Guitar Archives label which failed to realize her true genuis and, unfortunately, she slipped away into obscurity forever...
...To this day, collectors and guitar enthusiasts alike have searched the globe, hi and lo, for the handful of her "rare recordings" that she left us with. And the few of us who have been lucky enough to hear her "pure heavy guitar beauty" will concur that she was the greatest guitar player who has ever lived!!!
...Now if only the likes of Eddie Van Halen and Malmsteen would stop "sniveling" over there in the corner...