Alligator producer Dick Shurman also worked on the Buchanan sessions and suggested material by older blues artists that might fit the style and limited vocal range. She liked the way he played guitar, she told him. I just said, ‘Who is this man?’ The next time I saw Bill Graham, I said, ‘Tell me about Roy Buchanan.’ He defied all the laws of verse-chorus-verse and just blazed.”Buchanan built a word-of-mouth reputation for taking clubs by storm, though the general public remained largely oblivious.

“I was adequate, but Dale would really make you work,” Roy would recall later. Reich found Buchanan playing with his back to the audience – Roy often explained this by saying he didn’t want people stealing his licks – and with his Fender Vibrolux amp pointed toward the back of the stage. The sun broke through the clouds once again when Buchanan played Albert’s Hall, a club in Toronto, in late ’84/early ’85. Please try again. Like Robert Johnson, it’s the jaw-dropping guitar chops that are the real story, even if the rock’n’roll myth machine likes you to go out with a bang.Roy Buchanan’s death is still the subject of fierce debate.

This is not the best introduction to live Roy(try "Livestock") however, if you're a Roy fan you will want this recording because it is a good example of Roy's live work later in his career.

“I walked out, right in the middle of a haircut, and I said: ‘Where’d you get that guitar?’ I just told him: ‘I want it.’ I said: ‘I’ll get you the most beautiful guitar you’ve ever seen, and I’ll trade you straight across.’ “I left work that day and went to a friend of mine with connections and said: ‘I want a purple Telecaster.’ He had it before the sun went down. He learned to make the guitar cry by striking a note, bending it, and making the sound swell by manipulating the volume knob with the pinky on his right hand.

Born in Ozark, Arkansas in 1939, Leroy ‘Buch’ Buchanan was a master of the Telecaster who elevated Leo Fender’s humble “working man’s” electric guitar to the level of a Stradivarius violin.

In the ’60s, only a few companies made strings, and almost all had wound G strings that were hard to bend. Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings based on a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. In ’65, I was playing at a club in Ocean City called Tony Marts. The Stones thing is not the only squeaky board in the back story. None of us knew what we were doing. Buchanan told interviewers that his father was also a Pentecostal preacher, a note repeated in Guitar Player magazine but disputed by his older brother J.D.Buchanan told how his first musical memories were of racially-mixed revival meetings he attended with his mother, Minnie. Once, he gave me a mid-’50s Telecaster neck I put on another Tele body and that guitar was later used by Jeff Beck in Rod Stewart’s video for his cover of the Curtis Mayfield song “People Get Ready.” The pickups were an early version of my Antiquities, which I installed to replicate Roy’s sound. I was one of the few people that could handle Roy. “Gospel,” he recalled, “that's how I first got into black music.” He, in fact, drew upon many disparate influences while learning to play the guitar (though he later claimed his aptitude derived from being “half-wolf”). Live at Town Hall 1974 (2-CD Set) You’ll feel it in your heart, whether you’ve succeeded or not.” Buchanan didn’t become a big star or make lots of money, and he probably didn’t say no to the Stones. “He did all these tricks, weird sounds, and bending things down and bending the neck and playing with volume control. Buchanan serenaded, saddened, exhilarated, riveted, and hypnotized his audiences, all in the space of an hour’s performance at the small clubs he preferred. He was cruisin’ down his own lane.”Roy lent his explosive guitar work to dozens of records on Dick Clark’s Swan label in Philadelphia with various artists, including the Temps, and under his own name. I said: ‘Go ahead, Eric, get your cock out. He had just received the first production models of the Fritz Brothers’ guitar. The documentary shined a spotlight directly on Buchanan, who was too broke to protest. A pioneer of the Telecaster sound, Buchanan worked as a sideman and as a solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career and two later solo albums that made it to the Billboard chart. Buchanan tore the phone from the wall and walked out.

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