Hot Wires

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Hot Wires
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Studio album by
Released1987
StudioStreeterville Studios, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Genre Rock, blues
Length44:05
Label Alligator
Producer Roy Buchanan, Dick Shurman, Justin Niebank, Bruce Iglauer
Roy Buchanan chronology
Dancing on the Edge
(1986)
Hot Wires
(1987)

Hot Wires is a 1987 album by American guitarist and blues musician Roy Buchanan. [1] This was his third record for Alligator Records. [1] It was recorded by Justin Niebank and mixed by Niebank and Tim Hale with Brian Poer and David Axelbaum assisting. [2] It was mastered by Tom Coyne and produced by Roy Buchanan, Dick Shurman, Justin Niebank and Bruce Iglauer. [2] This was Buchanan's final studio album. He killed himself the following year. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "High Wire"
  2. "That Did It"
  3. "Goose Grease"
  4. "Sunset over Broadway"
  5. "Ain't No Business"
  6. "Flash Chordin'"
  7. "25 Miles"
  8. "These Arms of Mine"
  9. "Country Boogie"
  10. "The Blues Lover" [1]

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Hot Wires – Roy Buchanan | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Hot Wires – Roy Buchanan | Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  3. Davis, Patricia; Sandra Evans (August 17, 1988). "Roy Buchanan, Guitarist, Found Hanged in Va. Jail; Artist Faced Alcohol Charge". The Washington Post . p. B3.