On August 14, 1988, guitarist Roy Buchanan was found hanged by his shirt in a Fairfax, Virginia jail cell. He was 48. While his death was ruled a suicide, the circumstances remain controversial. But, ...

It may seem strange and unfair to describe guitarist Roy Buchanan (1939-1988) as an underachiever. An uncommon master of the Fender Telecaster, Buchanan bonded gospel, blues and country dialects in a ...

Jinx Jones: I grew up and went to high school there. I started playing in nightclubs right after high school. I went out on the road with a band and ended up in Houston for a couple of years. Then I ...

In the early 1970s, PBS Television in the USA showed an extended special entitled The World’s Greatest Unknown Guitarist. But this wasn’t strictly true; by 1971, Roy Buchanan had earned himself a ...

Rockabilly guitar virtuoso Jinx Jones has been a professional musician for most of his adult life, thanks to a musical education one can only earn by consistently gigging and playing alongside such ...

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Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting January 1st, 2008 - Buy Roy Buchanan: Live from Austin, TX DVD ...

A musical celebration of Washington, DC guitar greats, Danny Gatton and Roy Buchanan. Thirty of DC’s finest musicians celebrate their heroes and display the virtuosic, genre-blending music championed ...

In my last column, I demonstrated a Jimmy Reed-inspired eight-bar rhythm figure played with a funky, syncopated half-time feel, moving from the I (one) chord, A7, to the V (five) chord, E7, and back ...

He's been called "the greatest rock guitarist in the world" The Rolling Stones once asked him to join their group And hardly anyone has ever heard of him. His name is Roy Buchanan, and he is one of ...

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