David Bianculli

Bookbinder's debut album, Travelin' Man, was released in the early 1970s on Adelphi Records to critical acclaim.

Soon after, he took to the road for years in an Airstream motorhome, traveling to major blues and folk festivals in the U.S.

and Canada, and he also toured in Europe.

He shared the stages with Bonnie Raitt, B.B.

King, Doc Watson, and more.

In the late 1980s, he made nearly 30 appearances on Nashville Now on cable TV's The Nashville Network.

He released more than a dozen albums overall, some on his own label, Peg Leg Records.

In 1987, Roy Bookbinder brought his guitar to fresh air to visit with Terry Gross, play music, and tell some great stories.

Roy Bookbinder in the Fresh Air Studios in 1987.

More after a break.

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Roy Bookbinder, visiting the Fresh Air Studios in 1987.

He died March 3rd at age 82.

Coming up, Justin Chang reviews the new Ryan Gosling film, Project Hail Mary.

Ryan Gosling played an astronaut eight years ago in the Neil Armstrong drama First Man.

He returns to space in the new science fiction adventure Project Hail Mary, but this time he's playing a scientist on a lonely mission to save Earth from destruction.

The movie was directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller of the animated Spider-Verse series, and it's based on a novel by Andy Weir, author of The Martian.

Project Hail Mary opens in theaters this week, and our film critic, Justin Chang, has this review.

Justin Chang is a film critic for The New Yorker.