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Native blues guitarist plays from the heart

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There were a couple of anxious minutes of silence as the tape wound its way through the ghetto blaster. Then a lightning guitar rocketed out from the tape hiss.

The sounds were reminiscent of Texas guitar heros Stevie Ray Vaughn and Johnny Winter. But in this case they belonged to Clyde Roulette, an Ojibway blues wizard from Sandy Bay, Manitoba.

"There's a lot of Native blood in blues music," says the 36-year-old Roulette, who now lives and works out of Vancouver.

Native blues guitarist plays from the heart

Page 11

There were a couple of anxious minutes of silence as the tape wound its way through the ghetto blaster. Then a lightning guitar rocketed out from the tape hiss.

The sounds were reminiscent of Texas guitar heros Stevie Ray Vaughn and Johnny Winter. But in this case they belonged to Clyde Roulette, an Ojibway blues wizard from Sandy Bay, Manitoba.

"There's a lot of Native blood in blues music," says the 36-year-old Roulette, who now lives and works out of Vancouver.

Native blues guitarist plays from the heart

Page 11

There were a couple of anxious minutes of silence as the tape wound its way through the ghetto blaster. Then a lightning guitar rocketed out from the tape hiss.

The sounds were reminiscent of Texas guitar heros Stevie Ray Vaughn and Johnny Winter. But in this case they belonged to Clyde Roulette, an Ojibway blues wizard from Sandy Bay, Manitoba.

"There's a lot of Native blood in blues music," says the 36-year-old Roulette, who now lives and works out of Vancouver.

Native blues guitarist plays from the heart

Page 11

There were a couple of anxious minutes of silence as the tape wound its way through the ghetto blaster. Then a lightning guitar rocketed out from the tape hiss.

The sounds were reminiscent of Texas guitar heros Stevie Ray Vaughn and Johnny Winter. But in this case they belonged to Clyde Roulette, an Ojibway blues wizard from Sandy Bay, Manitoba.

"There's a lot of Native blood in blues music," says the 36-year-old Roulette, who now lives and works out of Vancouver.