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Storm clouds, Valley of Fire

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Roy Buchanan



Sit back, loosen your tie and turn this one up. If you need to grab the refreshment of your choice , press the pause button, we'll wait. Roy Buchanan was the tone master, the most knob twistiest, telecastin, f*thermuckin, demon of the fretboard of our time. Jeff Beck couldn't touch his trem, he was so bad, it hurt. His dad was a Pentecostal preacher in Arkansas. He played with first Dale and then Ronnie Hawkins. Found hung in a jail cell in Fairfax County Virginia with strange bruises on his head. Cops said it was a suicide. A quiet titan.