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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Roy Buchanan

Deluxe Edition   digital album

(Alligator)



Scant fretboardists ascend to the heights conquered by Roy. Unlike friendly competitor and fellow cognescenti Danny Gatton -in whose dazzing oeuvre Rockabilly and Country negotiations romped free of tether - Roy's chosen hearth was the Blues. The tone he calculated was impeccable - half celestial harp and half earthy, wee-hours proclaimer. He was able to reach way down and communicate the aches and exultations of every man's soul. 

In passages unhurried and lusty, Roy touched off stinging note-flurries none but overlords can produce. Many Buchanan LPs convey his gifts; this is emphatically among them.

A November 1980 newspaper account reported: "Roy Buchanan, in New York to record his new album, My Babe, met a mugger on his way back to his hotel room early in the morning. Apparently, the mugger didn't know that they don't call a guitar 'an ax' for nothing. He found out, however, after jumping Buchanan and being wacked a few times with the $5000 instrument. 'I've always known that the guitar can be used as a weapon,' Buchanan said. 'When that guy found out I wasn't afraid to use it as one, he split pretty fast. That old wood is pretty hard."

Recommended: "That Did It," "Chicago Smokeshop," "Blues for Jimmy Nolen," "Matthew," "Flash Chordin'," "Whiplash," "When a Guitar Plays the Blues," "Hawaiian Punch," "The Last Word"

Videos: "Chicago Smokeshop"   "Matthew"   "Flash Chordin'"   "When a Guitar Plays the Blues"  (live)


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