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Post by nick allen »

Since the other thread was getting a little long...
There is a "Guitar Player" magazine archive reprint of a Roy Buchanan interview here: http://www.guitarplayer.com/archive/artists/buchanan76.shtml

in which he states among other things that he pretty much started out on lap steel, "trying to emulate Jerry Byrd".
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Who is he talking about here?
<SMALL>Once I was playing a carnival in Oklahoma City, and this real country-looking guy came up to me and said, "I like the way you play. You feel like jamming a bit?" I don't remember who he was, but he also played piano with Hank Thompson. Well, that son of a gun came in with the oldest damn Gibson I'd ever seen, no cutaway or nothing. I couldn't even play rhythm for him. He was just all over the thing, and he was one of the greatest jazz players I'd ever heard.</SMALL>
Sounds like another interesting cat.

On a side note, I wish that there were some live tapes of the Dale Hawkins band with Roy, apparently they were a blistering combo.