Beverly "Guitar" Watkins has been played on NTS in shows including Crossed Wires w/ Amanda Siegel, featured first on 19 June 2020. Songs played include Melody Midnight Cruise.

Beverly "Guitar" Watkins (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 6, 1939 - October 1st, 2019) was an American blues guitarist.

When Watkins was approximately 12 years old, her family moved to Commerce, Georgia. She began playing music as a schoolchild, and then in high school, she played bass for a band called Billy West Stone and the Down Beats. In approximately 1959, her junior year of high school, she was introduced to Piano Red, who had a daily radio…