One of the first blues artists to experiment with an electric guitar, the ‘queen of country blues’ paved the way for the likes of Chuck Berry and the Stones, not to mention countless guitar-slinging female acolytes for whom she rewrote the rule bookMemphis Minnie played just as hard and just as well as the guys, and did it all wearing a fabulous frock, all the while chewing tobacco and taking shit from no one – unheard of in the 1920s