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

1978 Ray Charles on the new Fender MA 8S Stereo Sound System

"We enjoy being on the road. But when you play a hundred different rooms a year, you can have a hundred different acoustical problems. And that's no joy. So now we use the new Fender MA 8S Stereo Sound System. We e.q. the treble, bass and midrange with the five-band graphic equalizers - and it's like every room is identical. Then with the stereo separation, people hear us loud and live. Sound systems have come a long way since I left Jacksonville for L.A. Oh yes, they have."

1978 Ray Charles on the new Fender MA 8S Stereo Sound System Ad available at www.GuitarPulp.com