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Joe Bonamassa: Dust Bowl (J&R/Southbound)

...are some extraordinary guitar talents -- Roy Buchanan comes to mind immediately -- whose gift just... ...(the slow churning title track). As with Roy Buchanan, Bonamassa has all the technical stuff down...

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Various: While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Universal)

...to a better tune) and turn up the volume for Roy Buchanan's Sweet Dreams. And so on. You can flick past...

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . ROY BUCHANAN: The Messiah who isn't coming back

...House, Al Green . . . and the great guitarist Roy Buchanan. Arkansas-born Buchanan -- who died in an... ...player, and that's why we need to talk about Roy Buchanan. For other articles in the series of strange,...

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Joe Louis Walker's Blues Conspiracy: Live on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise (Stony Plain)

That this was recorded on a Caribbean cruise might tell you all you need about its crowd-pleasing nature. But Walker's guests (guitarists Johnny Winter, Tab Benoit and Duke Robillard, Watermelon Slim

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Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters: Spread the Love (Stony Plain)

...and Otis Spann are as evident as those of Roy Buchanan (that troubled holy drinker) or the early...

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Joe Bonamassa: Blues of Desperation (Southbound)

...alluding to sound of the great and late Roy Buchanan in places -- is a slow grinder which picks up...

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The Doobie Brothers: World Gone Crazy (Shock)

The Doobies' great Listen to the Music, Long Train Running and China Grove in the late 60s/early 70s were driven by urgent guitars and hammering keyboards delivering a forward momentum (which denied t

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ALLIGATOR RECORDS 1971 - 2011: Four decades of brittle and often brilliant blues

...along the way like the tragic and troubled Roy Buchanan. But this double disc proves Alligator blues...

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Chris Forsyth: All Time Present (No Quarter)

...Lloyd), the spiritual intensity of the late Roy Buchanan, Robert Quine's solo work and on to J Mascis'...

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John Scofield: Piety Street (Universal)

...might have also mentioned the great guitarist Roy Buchanan (1939-88) who grew up on gospel and moved into...

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BRUCE IGLAUER OF ALLIGATOR RECORDS: The bossman of the blues

...close which makes the loss of someone like Roy Buchanan, who hanged himself a fortnight before our...

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PETER GREEN: IN THE SKIES and LITTLE DREAMER, CONSIDERED (1979/1980): The slight return in the late Seventies

...style and Apostle at the end was out of the Roy Buchanan's gospel-guitar school. Nine years on from his...

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Milly Tabak and the Miltones: Honest Woman (digital outlets)

...some achingly soulful lines in the manner of Roy Buchanan which opens out Nicks-like into a soaring rock...

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ELMORE JAMES: Sliding with the king

...and recorded James' Bleeding Heart), Mayall, Roy Buchanan (who wrote Tribute to Elmore James) and Stevie...

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The Allman Brothers Band: At Fillmore East (1971)

When the mobile recording studio was parked outside the Fillmore on New York's 2nd Avenue in March 1971 to record this double vinyl Allman Brothers Band album it was both a beginning and an ending: it

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . DANNY GATTON: Known unto God and guitarists

...there according to an early manager. As with Roy Buchanan, another great guitarist who went beyond...

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Jeff Beck: Blow by Blow (1975)

...Cause We've Ended as Lovers dedicated to Roy Buchanan, the knuckle-tight Air Blower and highway race...

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Dale Hawkins: Oh! Suzy-Q; The Definitive and Remastered Edition (Hoodoo)

...rock'n'roll, featured three tracks with Roy Buchanan on guitar, had songs with a bluesy edge...

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Elvis Costello: Wave a White Flag (demo 1976)

...classics like Billy Swann's I Can Help, Roy Buchanan's Sweet Dreams, Irma Thomas' Ruler of My...

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Archie Bleyer: Hernando's Hideaway (1954)

...classics like Billy Swann's I Can Help, Roy Buchanan's Sweet Dreams, Irma Thomas' Ruler of My...

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Jeff Beck: Rock'n'Roll Party (ATCO)

Even those who have been his most ardent champions concede that guitarist Jeff Beck has always taken his own wayward path, often following a great album with an indifferent one. He may lack career foc

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Jeff Beck: Rock'n'Roll Party (Shock DVD)

Excellent though the recent Jeff Beck, Imelda May and others CD of this concert was -- a salute to the late guitar player and designer Les Paul -- this DVD film of the concert (and then some) is a lea

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JIMI HENDRIX; SOUTH SATURN DELTA (2011): The sun rises again

As with Bob Marley's "catalogue", it seems only right that Jimi Hendrix's messy existence -- he seemed to a sign a contract at the drop of an offer, and would record with whomever when the m

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Jimi Hendrix and Curtis Knight: Hush Now (1965)

It's well known that Jimi Hendrix didn't have much business sense, but he sure knew how to play guitar. This track -- one of about 60 recorded with the little known singer/guitarist Curtis Knight at a

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Jimi Hendrix: West Coast Seattle Boy; The Jimi Hendrix Anthology (Sony)

In 1964 the Isley Brothers – a doo-wop/r'n'b outfit from Cincinnati who had scored a hit with Twist and Shout – were playing a show in a baseball stadium in Bermuda. They had their own in-

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BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON CONSIDERED: From deep in the soul to deep space

...U-turns of people like Little Richard and Roy Buchanan who would vacillate between the secular and...

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Gregg Allman: Low Country Blues (Universal)

Gregg Allman is as well known for his marriage to Cher in the 70s and battles with drug'n'alcohol as he is for co-founding the seminal Southern blues-rock Allman Brothers Band with his long-gone sibli

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