Eliana Cargnelutti

Eliana Cargnelutti (born 28 July 1989) is an Italian blues rock singer, guitarist and songwriter. Cargnelutti has collaborated with various blues musicians including Scott Henderson, Ana Popovìc and Enrico Crivellaro.

In 2015, she released two albums. Electric Woman was recorded by Eliana Cargnelutti - vocals, guitars; Roger Inniss - bass; John Ginty - Hammond organ, piano; Jamie Little - drums; and Albert Castiglia - slide guitar. It was released on 27 February 2015, on Ruf Records, and was produced by Castiglia and Thomas Ruf. The recording contained the track, "I'm a Woman", which Joe Bonamassa suggested was placed on a list of eight recent songs "absolutely to hear". The second release of that year, Girls with Guitars, came on the back of Cargnelutti touring with two other female blues musicians, Heather Crosse and Sadie Johnson, under the international "Girls With Guitars" tag via Ruf Records' Blues Caravan banner. She was named one of the five "best female guitarists" in blues rock at the American Jimi Awards in 2015, and was nominated as the fifth best female guitar player of that genre by Blues E-news magazine. and with her acoustic trio: 3PLAY, who mostly operate in a club setting.

In 2019, Cargnelutti performed with Deep Purple's drummer, Ian Paice, in an Austrian concert with her own "Strange Kind of Women" project, an all-female Deep Purple tribute band. She later toured across Europe and the United States under her own name. A reviewer noted that "it aligns the Italian guitarist more with the likes of Orianthi than, say, a hotter version of Joanne Shaw Taylor".

The third edition of Open Air Blues in the Garden Festival, in Dărmănești, Romania, in 2022, included artists such as Cargnelutti, Kyla Brox and Dan Patlansky.

In late 2022, Cargnelutti was called to attend the Blues Caravan 2022, the annual tour of the Ruf Records label, in place of Will Jacobs, playing all over Europe with Ghalia Volt and Katie Henry.

Discography Albums Year Title Record label Additional credits 2013 Love Affairs VideoRadio Records Miss Eliana 2015 Electric Woman Ruf Records 2015 Girls With Guitars Ruf Records Eliana Cargnelutti / Heather Crosse / Sadie Johnson 2021 Aur Self-released