by Jan Sikes https://open.spotify.com/album/55IYWzRhOgPm1N8D1hydTm From the first time I met Guthrie at a songwriter swap, I fell in love with the raw honesty of his…
True story. As we were preparing our first post-pandemic Texas Tornado issue, the Buddy production office was hit by an actual Texas “tornado.” A major…
Tornado biographies by Kate Stow Intro by Jackie Don Loe Buddy staff This year marks the 44th anniversary of Buddy Magazine's Texas Tornado Award. Since…
by David Deal Great blues singers are song stylists. They take standards as old as the hills, sprinkle them with a layer of grit and…
As a young boy in the border town of McAllen, Mitch Watkins started piano lessons at the age of eight and picked up a guitar…
At the ripe old age of 23, Ally Venable is an old pro who excels at breaking all the rules. In 1999, Ally was born…
Neil Swanson was already playing Deep Ellum bars when he was 15; it didn’t take long before he had made the round of DFW venues…
By Kate Stow In a twist of fate, Wes Stephenson, co-founder of the Dallas-based Funky Knuckles, wouldn’t have even become a musician if not for…
Monte Pittman, the son of a rodeo cowboy, was born and raised in the Bible Belt town of Longview. Against those odds, Monte made his…
Chris McQueen started out in Austin as a true guitar geek, playing and recording songs on a 4-track Tascam by the time he hit the…