Roy Buchanan Called "maybe the greatest rock guitar picker alive in the world" by Rolling Stone in 1971 Roy Buchanan never got his due. Not even, I discovered today, here on the MOG. A fact I hope to somewhat correct over the next few days with a series of posts. Legend has it he turned down invitations to be Brian Jones replacement in The Rolling Stones and to play with Clapton in Derek ...
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Roy Buchanan 2nd in a series. See my first Roy post for more info. and a fistfull of links! This song has Roy playing electric guitar, his much more typical approach than the acoustical work in the song on my first post. The title of this album, A street Called Straight, is a refference to Roy's substance abuse issues and his attempts at that time to beat them.
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Roy Buchanan 5th in a series, (Posts 1, 2, 3, 4) where I'm taking the easy way out on the life story and just giving the batch of links below for more info for you all to peruse if interested. Suffice it to say Roy is one of the all time great players. Unfortunately my digital collection of Roy is limited and I don't have available the cover of Hey Joe he did, but here's another Hendrix tun...
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Roy Buchanan I think this is it for me with this series. Over the last couple days I aimed to give this unheralded guitar god some deserved representation here on the MOG (Post 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6), but all I have had to work from are cuts from Roy's "Atlantic Sessions" , which was sort of the midpoint of his career. (maybe, I'll correct that soon) Now, I'm hoping another Mogger or two can he...
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Roy Buchanan6th in a series, (Posts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) where I'm taking the easy way out on the life story and just giving the batch of links below for more info for you all to peruse if interested. Suffice it to say Roy is one of the all time great players. Here Roy goes off on Joe Walsh's, Turn to Stone. Seems Roy opened for Joe some on tour (see Scotfree's comment on post 5). Links for this ser...
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Roy Buchanan Roy attacks this classic Neil Young dirge with a vengeance and smolders his way through an incredibly harrowing solo that makes this the best version of this song I've ever heard. Lead vocals on this are by Gary St. Clair with Luther Vandross listed among the background singers. Links for this series to more info on Roy Buchanan: All Music, Wiki, Hotshot, Blue Notes, Sweet D...
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Title of this recently acquired Roy Buchanan cut seemed too fitting to Gulf Coast situation today. Plus it's some hot playing. Interesting isn't it that W is too busy to speak at the convention tonight - what do you think he was doing the Monday Katrina hit - see photo below (this is directly from the White House web site - seriously) presenting John McCain with a birthday cake!!!! Absolute ...
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Just got this recording of Roy Buchanan, Live Stock, from 1975 - it is amazing stuff. Only about 35 minute and seven cuts but WOW, had heard his live recording were excellent and this sure confirms that. This is the opening cut of the set, which was recorded live, but if I understand it right, not on tour but instead in a concert put on for the purpose of recorded this set of new material. B...
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This guitarist was in a league by himself and demonstrated it regularly. Melvin who?
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This 16-track collection pulls together Roy Buchanan 's best recordings from his short tenure with Atlantic Records in the mid '70s. The sessions are distinguished by the presence of luminaries such as Stanley Clarke , Steve Cropper , Jan Hammer , and Luther Vandross , and also, of course, by the incendiary, white-hot howl of Buchanan's six-string skills. Deft acoustic work ("Okay")...
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