Description
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 preferredto play. Readers meet the biggest names in pop music and legions of unk nowns along the way, from the dawn of rock 'n' roll to Buchanan's puzzling death in 1988.
“We just sat there aghast ... It was someof 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 seemedas though I was hearing them come first from Roy Buchanan.” &ndas h; Les Paul