Sweet dreams of you every night I go through
Why can’t I forget you and start my life anew
Instead of having sweet dreams about you
You don’t love me it’s plain
I should know you’ll never wear my name
I should hate you the whole night through
Instead of having sweet dreams about you
Sweet dreams of you…
Instead of having sweet dreams about you
I ALWAYS shut up when I heard anything by him and listened and hung on every note--always immediately knew That's Roy!! I was crushed when we lost him...
When I was in college a million years ago, a buddy of mine liked to say that no matter how good someone we all idolized was at something, whether it was sports or music or whatever, there was someone out in the world we'd never heard of who was better than our idols. We argued about that all the time. Then, in 1972, Buchanan's 2nd album came out, and I bought it. At the time it was all about Beck, Clapton, Hendrix, etc. I'd never heard of Roy Buchanan. But after listening to that album, I had second thoughts about what my buddy said. Maybe there is someone out there who's better. Buchanan opened my eyes to that concept with 'The Messiah Will Come Again', and reinforced it with many more magic works over the years. He was a true master that few knew of; much like Rory Gallagher and James Burton, only less famous than either of them even. RIP Roy. You are missed, and you are remembered fondly by many of us.
Roy used to sit in when I was with a group called - The Monkey Men - Learned more about playing like him, but only on the bass, than any other guitist - Thanks so much for posting all these clips - Our most fun song was "Aligator Wine" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins and "Haunted House" we performed together a lot after that.