Roy Buchanan
at Guilford Fairgrounds, Guilford, CT, USA
Aug 8 1988
AUDIENCE
Setlist
THIS IS THE VERY LAST EVER ROY BUCHANAN GIG
01 Short Fuse
02 Country Boy
(Dave Bartholomew and His Orchestra cover)
03 Jack the Ripper
04 Susie-Q
(Dale Hawkins cover)
05 Peter Gunn
(Henry Mancini cover)
06 Down by the River
(Neil Young & Crazy Horse cover)
07 beer drinkin man
08 When a Guitar Plays the Blues
09 Honky Tonk
10 Good Golly, Miss Molly
(Little Richard cover)
11 Green Onions
(Booker T. & the MG’s cover)
12 Green onions end
13 Hey Joe
(The Leaves cover)
14 Purple Haze
(The Jimi Hendrix Experience cover)
15 The Messiah Will Come Again
16 Sunshine of Your Love
(Cream cover)
17 Drowning on Dry Land
(Albert King cover)
BONUS
BONUS
18 RADIO BIRDMAN radio fm live tape
19 RADIO BIRDMAN radio fm live tape
20 RADIO BIRDMAN radio fm live tape
21 RADIO BIRDMAN radio fm live tape
Death
According to his agent and others, Buchanan was doing well, having gained control of his drinking habit and playing again, when he was arrested for public intoxication after a domestic dispute.[2][5] He was found hanged from his own shirt in a jail cell on August 14, 1988, in the Fairfax County, Virginia, Jail. According to Thomas Hartman, who was in a cell near Buchanan's, the deputy sheriff opened the door early in the morning and found Buchanan with the shirt around his neck.[7][13] His cause of death was officially recorded as suicide, a finding disputed by Buchanan's friends and family. One of his friends, Marc Fisher, reported seeing Roy's body with bruises on the head.[15]
After his death, compilation and other albums continue to be released, including in 2004 the never-released first album he recorded for Polydor, The Prophet. Roy Buchanan is interred at Columbia Gardens Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.