Roy Buchanan

Artist: Roy Buchanan
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 042283141322
EAN: 0042283141322
ASIN: B000001FLI

Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Tracks:

Sweet Dreams
I Am A Lonesome Fugitive
Cajun
John's Blues
Haunted House
Pete's Blue
The Messiah Will Come Again
Hey, Good Lookin'

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Customer Reviews:

So you like the sound of a telecaster?.......2006-11-01

This is a guitar lovers' and blues lovers' dream...blazing hot, scorching guitar played with drama and emotion. The tone cries, screams, and elates you.

"Sweet Dreams" "John Blues" and "Petes Blue" are killer blues songs. The muscular bends and abrasive single-pickup telecaster tone will rock your skull out.

The highlight of the album is "The Messiah will come again". It starts out as a somber, spiritual song and then, out of nowhere, a lightning fast guitar run transforms the song into a show case of fast playing and acrobatic bends.

Roy Buchanan is an unheralded guitar god and this album is terrific. Get it !

Searing, Soaring, Sensational.......2006-01-15

The old 8-track of Roy Buchanan I listened to growing up has a whole new dimension on compact disc.

Roy's solos literally crackle through the speakers. "John's Blues" is amazing. "Pete's Blue" will make the fine hairs on your neck stand on end. The chord progression he uses on "Pete's Blue" is downright amazing. It's the best thing on the album.

Or maybe "Messiah" is the best thing. It's perhaps his best known song. It's an exhibition on how to play the Telecaster; how to squeeze every last decibel of sound out of wood and steel, which he proceeds to do near the end of the song as he dances all the way up the fretboard.

This album would have five stars if not for the largely uninspired vocal tracks. Roy's guitar saves the day, though.

Even if you don't like the blues, you'll love this album. It's Roy Buchanan 101. And it's scary. But a good scary.

TOO GOOD.......2005-01-16

This album is amazingly soulfull and Roy Buchanan is so underated. His sound and technique are heavenly, and his mastery of these two attributes are almost at the level of page and hendrix. I really disagree with the guy that said that his overall playing was just as much thanks to his guitar (a telecaster) as his skill and talent. In fact i thought the opposite basically. All of the greatest guitarists have a custom model with 500 dollar pickups and tons of pedals and distortion boxes, but you see this sort of hick country dude pick up just a good old american telescaster, and blows the roof off. Some other guys were right about some of the tracks, a little annoying becuz some guys want rock and blues but there very country, however, not one song is without a searing guitar solo that will make your hair stand on end. And, many of the tracks are GREAT the whole way too, including the blues numbers and the messiah. So pick it up if you want a rare experience of a great guitarist who will influence your playing and just amaze you.

¡¡¡SIMPLEMENTE MARAVILLOSO!!!.......2004-10-02

Un album sencillamente sensacional, donde Roy Buchanan da buena muestra de su maestrýa y virtuosismo con la guitarra.
Mýsica nunca exenta de la sensibilidad y capacidad de transmitir emociones necesaria para convertir un buen album en una "obra maestra".
Totalmente recomendado; una pieza fundamental de cualquier discoteca de rock que se precie.

A great intro to the Telecaster Master for country fans.......2004-02-21

This is one of my favorite Roy Buchanan CDs. It's hard to pin Roy down, he played everything so well -- country, blues, rock, jazz,... you name it -- and moved seamlessly from one genre to another, so for lack of anything more descriptive he is often categorized as a blues guitarist. But while this CD has some superb blues playing on it (esp. "John's Blues"), it also has a number of strictly country cuts, which is why I think it's an excellent intro to Roy for fans of fine country guitar work.

As some of the other reviewers here have already noted, nobody before or since has played with the kind of power that Roy did. He was a creative pioneer with first-rate skill who first introduced a number of techniques and effects, however, the thing that sets him apart most was his _unmatched_ ability to capture and express genuine emotion in his playing and make his instrument say something truly meaningful.

If you're unfamiliar with Roy Buchanan, this CD will certainly give you an idea why so many superlatives have been used to describe him. But he is really at his best live, so if you are new to Roy and would like to explore further after listening to this CD, I would strongly suggest getting Live Stock and the more recently released American Axe: Live in 1974 -- both available here on Amazon.

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