Thursday, May 26, 2011

1979 Roy Bookbinder - Traveling Country Bluesman

"Sporting dapper clothes, a wide-brim hat, old fashioned rimless glasses, and a mustache thick enough to hide half a toothpick, Roy Bookbinder seems an unlikely candidate for a country blues performer. But just give him an old steel-string acoustic guitar and a place to play, and he'll take you back to the days when performers like Blind Willie McTell, Bessie Smith, Willie Brown, and Blind Boy Fuller were nightly rolling their lives and music together, calling it the blues..."

Photos shown:

- Roy Bookbinder (R) with Doc Watson.
- Roy Bookbinder with Ray Charles.

1979 Roy Bookbinder - Traveling Country Bluesman 6-Page Article available at www.GuitarPulp.com



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