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While WNET TV producer John Adams began work on a documentary, suitably entitled Introducing Roy Buchanan, Buchanan signed with Polydor and, in 1972, he released his debut album, a self-titled jewel which still ranks among the most cohesive artistic statements of the age. The Washington Post followed suit and, when Rolling Stone, too, got in on the act, Buchanan’s future was sealed. Buchanan returned to the US later that year, marrying and settling in the DC area, and seemingly content to simply playing the Iocal clubs scene, filling in behind anyone who asked him to.īut word was spreading about this amazing guitarist and, in 1970, a Washington Star review finally revealed the best kept secret in town. In years to come, at the heim of The Band, Robertson rated Buchanan among the most significant influences on his career. His band, the Hawks, was just taking its first steps and Buchanan made an immediate impression – not least of all on the group’s other guitarist, a youngster named Robbie Robertson. Buchanan left Hawkins in 1961, to team up with the singer’s cousin, Ronnie. Immediately, the “Susie Q” hitmaker offered Buchanan a job and, over thee next three years, the youngster’s edgy, heavy guitar all but defined. Touring the south, the group was abandoned by its agent in Oklahoma City, without the means to get home Buchanan had drifted no further than Tulsa before he Ianded a gig on Tulsa’s Oklahoma Bandstand show, which is where Hawkins encountered him.
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At 16, he moved to Los Angeles where he joined future Jefferson Airplane drummer Spencer Dryden in the Heartbeats, a band whose taOiE extended as far as a role in the movie Rock Pretty Baby, but those, ances were somewhat more limited.
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His first instrument was a Iap steel and, at 12, he was the prodigal star of the older Wale! Kapn Valley Boys. Born September 23rd, 1939, in Ozark, AL, but raised in California’s San Joaquin Valley, Leroy “Roy” Buchanan started playing guitar aged 9. In a career which spanned more than 25 years, Roy Buchanan not only impressed some of rock’s biggest names, he left an indelible impression on them all. But Eric Clapton called him the best he’d ever heard, Jerry Garcia praised his “amazing chops,” the Rolling Stones asked him to join their band and Dale Hawkins, the rockabilly colossus who discovered Buchanan in the first place, was so enamored that he all but pulled the unknown youth out of high school to join him on the road.
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Others were flashier, others were faster, others still rose to far higher peaks.
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Roy Buchanan was the rarest of all rock’n’roll animals, the consummate guitarist’s guitarist. Photo Roy Buchanan – 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection