Roy Buchanan: American Axe

Roy Buchanan: American Axe by Carson, Phil. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780879306397.

Roy Buchanan was a “guitarists guitarist” who shunned fame for a musical odyssey on Americas 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 preferred to play. Readers meet the biggest names in pop music and legions of unknowns along the way, from the dawn of rock n roll to Buchanans puzzling death in 1988. “We just sat there aghast ... It was some of the best playing Ive 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 seemed as though I was hearing them come first from Roy Buchanan.” – Les Paul