Roy Book Binder is a blues singing, guitar picking, song writing and storytelling phenomenon. For over three decades he has traveled through America in his tour bus home, performing and teaching. In the early 1960s Roy learned his craft from Piedmont blues masters such as Reverend Gary Davis and Pink Anderson (the "Pink" in Pink Floyd). Before he died, Anderson gave Roy his songs with a request to keep his name alive; Roy has been obliging ever since. "Book" has toured with such greats as Bonnie Raitt, BB King, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Doc Watson, Ray Charles and Hot Tuna, appearing at festivals from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and the Chicago Blues Festival to The National Storytelling Festival and Merlefest, where he has hosted the acoustic blues stage for over a decade. Reviewers have praised his classic blues sensibility, rugged vocal style, fine fingerpicking and bottleneck guitar techniques -- and above all his mastery as an entertainer, weaving stories, humor and music into an evening to remember.
Roy Book Binder is a blues singing, guitar picking, song writing and storytelling phenomenon. For over three decades he has traveled through America in his tour bus home, performing and teaching. In the early 1960s Roy learned his craft from Piedmont blues masters such as Reverend Gary Davis and Pink Anderson (the "Pink" in Pink Floyd). Before he died, Anderson gave Roy his songs with a request to keep his name alive; Roy has been obliging ever since. "Book" has toured with such greats as Bonnie Raitt, BB King, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Doc Watson, Ray Charles and Hot Tuna, appearing at festivals from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and the Chicago Blues Festival to The National Storytelling Festival and Merlefest, where he has hosted the acoustic blues stage for over a decade. Reviewers have praised his classic blues sensibility, rugged vocal style, fine fingerpicking and bottleneck guitar techniques -- and above all his mastery as an entertainer, weaving stories, humor and music into an evening to remember.