Roy Buchanan was a guitarist's guitarist who shunned fame for a musical odyssey on America's roadhouse circuit with his battered Telecaster � melding blues country jazz and rock like no player before or since. This is a compelling road trip through the gritty world of honky tonks and beer joints where this enigmatic journeyman preferred to play. Readers meet the biggest names in pop music and legions of unknowns along the way from the dawn of rock 'n' roll to Buchanan's puzzling death in 1988.� We just sat there ...
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Roy Buchanan was a guitarist's guitarist who shunned fame for a musical odyssey on America's roadhouse circuit with his battered Telecaster � melding blues country jazz and rock like no player before or since. This is a compelling road trip through the gritty world of honky tonks and beer joints where this enigmatic journeyman preferred to play. Readers meet the biggest names in pop music and legions of unknowns along the way from the dawn of rock 'n' roll to Buchanan's puzzling death in 1988.� We just sat there aghast ... It was some of the best playing I've ever heard ... He defied all the laws of verse-chorus-verse and just blazed. � Jeff Beck� Roy was one of the creators in the pioneering of unusual sounds. It seemed as though I was hearing them come first from Roy Buchanan. � Les Paul
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Very good. Ex-library. vi, 282 p. : ill.; 24 cm. LCCN 2001035451 Type of material Book Personal name Carson, Phil. Main title Roy Buchanan: American axe / by Phil Carson. Published/Created San Francisco: Backbeat Books; Berkeley, CA: Distributed to the book trade in the US and Canada by Publisher's Group West; Milwaukee, WI: Distributed to the music trade in the US and Canada by H. Leonard, 2001. Description vi, 282 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 0879306394 LC classification ML419. B83 C37 2001 LC Subjects Buchanan, Roy. Guitarists--United States--Biography. Rock musicians--United States--Biography. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-275), discography (p. 264-266), and index. Geographic area code n-us---
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