BUD BUCKLEY

Too busy with the stuff I should be blogging about.  Not a bad place to be, really.  My new CD “Four: Crying Out Loud” is out and available at CDBaby.com,  Or iTunes     And Amazon And I’m too busy to promote it the way I normally do.  You want a free CD?  Easy. Write [...]

Remember 45 RPMs? I think they inspired the Frisbee. Some inventive entrepreneur gave his little sister’s favorite 45 a toss across the back yard and the dog caught it on the fly. It’s possible. Those things are antiques and share a museum case in my mind with those breakable 78 RPM records with the tiny [...]

Award show speeches are not fake. Especially the fan thanks. So thanks, fans! I’m really a lucky guy. I do what I love and I love those who help me continue doing it. That’s you. You come to my shows, show your love online, and support my livelihood by buying my tunes! Musicians know that [...]

I don’t keep score. Except when my livelihood is at stake. Golf partners hate me for not caring where I hit the ball. My feeling was the more shots I got to take from the weirdest places, the more fun it was and I really got my money’s worth!  I don’t play now. I was [...]

An abused body and mind can only rock the casbah so many times.  The Kinks had it right when they sang “Motorway food is the worst in the world.” That stuff will kill you if you’re not careful. The other contributing, uh, habits, musicians are exposed to combined with little sleep and no real exercise [...]

I loved being a classroom teacher. Guitar teaching is better in certain ways. My life in the classroom gave me some of the most joyful moments. Memories I smile at constantly. Some that make me want to cry.  I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t enjoy it anymore with today’s extreme emphasis on standardized testing. One thing [...]