Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential blues guitarists of all
time, Roy Buchanan never achieved widespread fame in his own right, but his
exciting brand of blues rock and guitar harmonics provided inspiration for
everyone from John Lennon to Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Robbie Robertson, Jerry
Garcia, Gary Moore and Billy Gibbons. He was a pioneer of the Telecaster
electric guitar and at one point he was even asked to join The Rolling Stones as
replacement for Brian Jones but turned it down due to personal circumstances.
The son of a sharecropper and Pentecostal pre...