With this issue, Buddy Magazine celebrates 50 years of covering Eric Johnson's career. We first wrote about him in the June 1974 issue, when he…
By Kate Stow With a career that began as a nine-year-old guitar player sitting in with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Will Sexton has…
By Kate Stow BUDDY Staff Photo by Michael Heeschen There is a realm of guitar playing that few players manage to enter – the “thirteenth…
Texas Slide Guitar Legend and 2018 Buddy Magazine Texas Tornado, Kirby Kelley, has been diagnosed with cancer and is currently undergoing treatments. A benefit to…
By Kate Stow If you didn’t make it to the Dallas Market Hall May 5-7, you missed the biggest party in Dallas. The 45th Annual…
Hot on the heels of being presented the Key to Deep Ellum, Dallas native, Erica Wright, aka Erykah Badu, has announced a 25-city US tour…
Any musician will tell you that the toughest time to gig is the week following New Year’s Day - people are either broke from Christmas…
New dates have been announced for the much-anticipated Pantera reunion/tribute. Pantera will support Metallica on a short of leg of their Summer 2023 tour, performing…
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…
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…