George Warren Barnes (July 17, 1921 – September 5, 1977) was an American swing jazz guitarist who played the first electric guitar in 1931. He, disputedly, made the first commercial recording of an electric guitar on March 1, 1938, in sessions with Big Bill Broonzy. Such was his downhome style of playing, he was once mistakenly described as a "great Negro blues guitar player from Chicago".