I’m traveling today so I’m posting an album that everyone should hear that you may never have heard. No review. Pure music.
Overview
“Second Album” was released in 1973 as Roy Buchanan‘s second studio album, following his 1972 self-titled debut on Polydor Records . The album continued to highlight Buchanan’s exceptional guitar skills and improvisational style, blending blues, country, and Creole influences
. It features a mix of original compositions and covers, demonstrating both technical precision and emotional depth..
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Leroy Buchanan was born in Ozark, Arkansas, and was raised there and in Pixley, California, a farming area between Visalia and Bakersfield. His father was a sharecropper in Arkansas and a farm laborer in California. Buchanan told interviewers the fiction that his father was a fiddle-playing preacher, which was repeated in Guitar Player magazine but disputed by his older brother J.D. Buchanan told how his first musical memories were of racially mixed revival meetings he attended with his mother, Minnie. “Gospel,” he recalled, “that’s how I first got into black music”. He in fact drew upon many disparate influences while learning to play the guitar (though he later claimed his aptitude derived from being “half-wolf”). He initially showed talent on steel guitar before switching to guitar in the early 1950s, and started his professional career at the age of 15, in Johnny Otis‘s rhythm and blues revue.
In 1958, Buchanan made his recording debut with Chicago’s Chess Records at age 19, accompanying Dale Hawkins by playing the solo on “My Babe“. Two years later, during a tour through Toronto, Buchanan left Dale Hawkins to play for Hawkins’s cousin Ronnie Hawkins and tutor Ronnie’s guitar player, Robbie Robertson. Buchanan plays bass on the Ronnie Hawkins single “Who Do You Love?”. Buchanan soon returned to the United States, and members of the Ronnie Hawkins’ group later gained fame as the roots rock group the Band. In the early 1960s, Buchanan often played as a sideman with various rock bands, and he played guitar in recording sessions with Freddy Cannon, Merle Kilgore, and others. At the end of the 1960s, with a growing family, Buchanan left the music industry to learn a trade and trained as a barber.
Bman’s VerdictOne of many great albums by the master! |
Label: Polydor Records Released:March 1973 |