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

1979 George Benson - pop ambassador of jazz guitar

Cover: George Benson - pop ambassador of jazz guitar

Contents: George Benson - the most popular jazz guitarist of the '70s; Mark Knopfler - leading Dire Straits up the charts; Roy Bookbinder - living on the road with the blues; The Vintage Guitar Market - old instruments, big money, facts, and fiction; Brian Jeffery - Musicologist, publisher and Sor's biographer; Leon Gaer; Phil Upchurch; more

1979 July Guitar Player Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com