About
Pioneering rock guitarist who recorded with The Band, among other rock acts.
Before Fame
By fourteen, he was already recording with the country legend Dale Hawkins.
Trivia
His favorite guitar was a 1953 Fender Telecaster, which he nicknamed Nancy.
Family Life
He was one of the middle children in a family of four to Bill Buchanan, who was a sharecropper during the Depression, and his wife was Minnie Bell Reed.
Associated With
His song "Sweet Dreams" is on the soundtrack of Martin Scorcese's Oscar-winning film The Departed.
