BUD BUCKLEY

 I don’t waste time harboring regrets. “Can’t go back and rearrange it,” I sing in my song “The Silence There.” (Listen on sidebar). The header on the top of each of my journal pages says: MAKE EVERY MINUTE COUNT! So I won’t catalog a list of the minutes in life I’d like to have back, [...]

Here in the middle of an insane Christmas gig season, I’m beginning to think past the holidays about the New Year 2012.   My predictions and projections are as follows: An App for that: Every human function will have an app by the end of the year.  I have one to show where the public rest [...]

Sunday is usually recovery day for me. I always liked that “Day of Rest” concept after a long weekend of remodeling my universe. I routinely review if I met my goals and either reshape them or rededicate myself to another kick ass week. Skipping over those details, I’ll share a question that keeps coming up [...]

Merging music and the arts with local community networks of activists is both very attractive and not altogether free of risks. But signing with a label seems like one huge risk to me. Been there, done that and have seen enough scary contracts to run away pretty fast. Always shower afterwards too. So at a [...]

Here’s a great way to help feed the bottom of the 99%.  Between now and Christmas I will donate a portion of my download and CD sales to Sarasota’s All Faith’s Food Bank.  Buy one or buy many. If you buy a full CD or six downloads, I’ll send you another full CD free.  Just [...]

Most of us in the indie music biz, weather we say it out loud or not, are repelled by the question, “Who are your influences?”  Even worse is the mandatory marketing question, “Sounds Like?”  I sound like me. I’m influenced by everybody I’ve ever heard and liked. Including certain birds and insects. You can’t begin [...]