Most musicians would treat an invitation to join the Rolling Stones at the height of their fame as the ultimate lottery ticket. Roy Buchanan said no. This episode digs into the biographical record of the American blues and rock guitarist whose life blended musical genius, persistent self-sabotage, and deliberate myth-making, from a fabricated origin story about a fiddle-playing preacher father to a claim that he was half wolf.

We trace the real story: a sharecropper's son born in Ozark, Arkansas in 1939, transformed by racially mixed revival meetings in California, playing professionally at 15 in Johnny Otis' rhythm and blues revue, cutting the solo on Dale Hawkins' "My Babe" for Chess Records at 19, and tutoring a young Robbie Robertson in Ronnie Hawkins' band before quitting to attend barber school. We revisit the March 1968 Jimi Hendrix  ...