Roy Buchanan

ABOUT ROY BUCHANAN

Pioneering rock guitarist who recorded with The Band, among other rock acts.

By fourteen, he was already recording with the country legend Dale Hawkins.

His favorite guitar was a 1953 Fender Telecaster, which he nicknamed Nancy.

He was one of the middle children in a family of four to Bill Buchanan, who was a sharecropper during the Depression, and his wife was Minnie Bell Reed.

His song "Sweet Dreams" is on the soundtrack of Martin Scorcese 's Oscar-winning film The Departed.