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Roy Buchanan

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American blues musician (1939–1988)

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  • Roy Buchanan - Guitar Signature Licks
  • Roy Buchanan - American Axe
  • When a guitar plays the blues
  • The Roy Buchanan Collection

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1939-09-23
Active to
1988-08-14
bluesblues rockelectric blues

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254,512
Total plays
2,125,278

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Roy Buchanan's (September 23, 1939 - August 14, 1988) musical career began in Pixley, California. His father was a sharecropper (not a Pentecostal preacher as Buchanan himself had claimed). Buchanan told how his first musical memories were of racially-mixed revival meetings his family would attend. "Gospel," he recalled, "that's how I first got into black music". He in fact drew upon many disparate influences while learning to play his instrument (although he later claimed his aptitude was deriv

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Official website
www.roybuchanan.org
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date of birth
1939-09-23
date of death
1988-08-14
Commons category
Roy Buchanan
start of work period
1958-00-00
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