ROY BUCHANAN & THE SNAKESTRETCHERS '71 PRIVATE PRESS LP

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ROY BUCHANAN ~ BUCH AND THE SNAKESTRETCHERS ~ BIOYA SOUND MM-519. FROM CIRCA 1971 IS THIS FAMOUS PRIVATE PRESSING FROM (AT THE TIME) " THE  BEST UNKNOWN GUITARIST IN THE WORLD". BURLAP BAG IS IN VG++ CONDITION (AND WILL NEED TO BE FOLDED (CAREFULLY) FOR MAILING. IT IS ALREADY STRONGLY FOLDED AT THE TOP, THE ADDITIONAL FOLDS FROM MAILING SHOULD FLATTEN OUT OK. THE DISC IS IN VG++ CONDITION WITH A COUPLE VERY LIGHT SCUFFS. IT HAS HAS WAX STAINING INHERENT TO A SMALL PRESS RUN BUT DOESN'T SEEM TO HAVE BEEN PLAYED MUCH. LABELS ARE NEAR MINT. DISC IS HOUSED IN A GENERIC 12" LP CARDBOARD SLEEVE AND HAS THE CARDBOARD PAD ISSUED WITH THE RECORD. THIS IS A RARE ITEM  AND AS MR. BUCHANAN'S LEGEND CONTINUES TO JUSTIFIABLY  GROW, IT WILL JUST INCREASE IN VALUE, AND NOT JUST FINANCIALLY.

HERE'S THE LOW DOWN ON THIS RELEASE FROM THE AMG/ALL MUSIC GUIDE WEBSITE: "After being rejected as a potential debut, Roy Buchanan (guitar/vocals) released this six-song disc privately, on his own BIOYA imprint -- whose initials stood for the message that he had for Polydor: B(low) I(t) O(ut) Y(our) A(ss). Even though his name was not formally on the platter -- which was originally packaged in an honest-to-God brown burlap sack -- the sounds are unmistakably that of Buchanan and his six-piece Snakestretchers -- Ned Davis (drums), Dick Heintze (keyboards), Teddy Irwin (rhythm guitar), Chuck Tilley (vocals/rhythm guitar), Peter Van Allen (bass), and Marc Fisher (percussion). Granted, the audio quality is by all accounts primitive. But what is lacking in fidelity is more than made up for in sheer emotion. While no date is specifically attached, it was circa Buchanan's 1971 run at Crossroads Night Club in Bladensburg, MD. Much of the material would be reworked by this band in the studio, while those later readings seem uninspired by comparison to the array of sensations conjured on these recordings. Among those pieces, the full rich tone heard in the instrumental reading of Don Gibson's "Sweet Dreams" alternately shimmers and scorches underneath the Snakestretchers' bluesy waltz. Likewise, "The Messiah Will Come Again," which is presented in an incomplete performance, would turn up as one of the strongest cuts on the self-titled Roy Buchanan (1973). Without question the laid-back and smoky cover of Neil Young's "Down by the River" is nothing short of a reinvention by Buchanan and company. The tune remained in the guitarist's catalog and resurfaced in a somewhat lesser form on You're Not Alone (1978). In 1992 the Maryland-based Genes Records issued Roy Buchanan & the Snakestretchers, Rovi"  

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