Good coffee, upper 70s, low humidity, gorgeous day. Sometimes it is simple things I enjoy in the morning like watching all these butterflies attracted to my neighbor's butterfly bush, they are so delicate and beautiful.
I've been a fan of Roy Buchanan quite some time and he has the most interesting and strange story. He is probably the most under rated guitar player that most folks never heard of.
He was very complex, had serious substance abuse issues, and just seemed to be tortured eccentric fellow with an amazingly HUGE talent.
Roy Buchanan died in a jail cell, August 14, 1988. One of the most overlooked blues rock guitarists ever, Buchanan was revered by fellow musicians but may have been the most reluctant guitarist to ever to pick up the instrument. He lived one of the strangest lives of any respected guitarist since Robert Johnson, yet is still barely known by the general public. Whenever his guitar prowess threatened to metamorphose into fame and fortune (like possibly joining The Rolling Stones), Buchanan ran away from the limelight until he could re-emerge in some little-scrutinized side project.
After winning a Grammy for Best Blues Album and being the subject of a PBS documentary, Buchanan was found hanged in a jail cell in Virginia (the jury is still out on whether it was suicide or police manhandling). Whatever the verdict, there is no doubt that Roy was one of the supreme "Masters of The Telecaster." - National Guitar Museum
[video=youtube;v4e2VgycfSw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4e2VgycfSw[/video]
http://driveittothemoon.com/roy-buchanan-american-axe-from-pixley-to-dc/
I want to read American Ax cause I think Roy was special like no other on guitar. His style is all his own.