Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friends and I did not "leave" the church; we were driven away by guitar-strumming, Protestantizing ecumenists...
...guitar pros like Nashville's Chet Atkins say that Roy's pickin' is just about the best there is. His vibrating high notes come at the listener like a highballing truck. No less extraordinary are his strumming chord changes, his mercurial runs and the broad processional quality of his rhythms...
Buchanan combines jazz, country, blues and rock 'n' roll, but he first learned music in church in the California farming town of Pixley (pop. 1,584). His father, a Pentecostal preacher, gave him his first guitar when he was five. At 15, Buchanan left for Los Angeles and began bumming around the country. ("I can remember sleepin' in fields. I can remember sleepin' in bars.") The roving life also got him what he calls "messed up on dope." Then came a day of revelation: "I had a vision one night. I saw Hell. I fell...
...California last week, Buchanan demonstrated that quality at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. He sauntered onstage, took a gulp of beer, then stepped forward with his Fender Telecaster guitar. The youthful audience welcomed him with screams and cheers. For the next two hours, Buchanan and his three sidemen played to constant outbursts from the crowd: "Come on, Roy ... Right on, Roy." Roy responded by singing about half the 18 songs on the program, including the wailing Roy's Bluz and the chuckling My Cat Walked Out Last Sunday. But the biggest applause came for the broad...
...There is a town," Buchanan intoned over the moaning of his guitar, "a strange, lonely little town they call the world, till one day a stranger appeared ..." At the end, having promised that the Messiah would come again, Buchanan moved slowly toward the back of the stage and, like a sort of rock Messiah, slipped off into the darkness...