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Buddy is a monthly music magazine serving the North Texas and Northeast Texas regions. It was named after Buddy Holly and was first published October 1972 as a as a free bi-monthly. Stoney Burns (pseudonym of Brent Lasalle Stein; 1942–2011) and Rob Edleson (né Lewis Robin Edleson; born 1946) were the founders.

Taglines

 * Originally, its tagline was "The music magazine."
 * Since February 1975, its tagline has been "The original Texas music magazine." Buddy bills itself as the oldest music magazine in Texas.
 * When Buddy published separate editions for Houston, Dallas, and Austin-San Antonio, it used the tagline "The Music magazine of Dallas," etc.

History
Stoney Burns, before co-founding Buddy, published and edited Dallas Notes from 1967 to 1970, an underground bi-weekly newspaper. Christopher Gray of the Austin Chronicle, in 2000, likened Buddy as "the the North Texas equivalent of Crawdaddy.

He recently stated that writers for Buddy magazine who covered the blues scene in the Dallas-Fort Worth area helped resurrect the career of Zuzu Bollin and introduced mainstream music fans notable regional blues artists, including jazz guitarist Roger Boykin (né Roger Mitchell Boykin; born 1940) and blues singer R.L. Griffin (aka "Fat Daddy;" né Raymond Lewis Griffin; born 1939) and the late pianist Boston Smith, brother of Buster Smith.

At its peak, Buddy had editions in Dallas, Houston, and Austin/San Antonio and a staff of almost two dozen.

A statement in the masthead – in 1976, when Stoney Burns was editor and publisher out of Houston – read:

Please address all correspondence, love letters, hate mail, records, threats, photos, unsolicited manuscripts, payola, etc., to Buddy Magazine ... Buddy is copyrighted, but we're not fanatics about it. Write us and we'll give you permission to reprint just about anything you want. ... If your regular distribution spot runs out of magazines before you get yours, let us know and we'll print up an extra copy next time.

There was no such thing as a music magazine. There was no Dallas Observer. There was no Guide in the Dallas Morning News. There was no place to learn about concerts and who was playing where. When we began writing, the musicians loved us and jumped right in to support us.

Circulation

 * In 1975, KAFM radio host Chuck Dunaway reported that Buddy, with a circulation of 40,000, was helping spread the positive aspects of progressive country.


 * By 1979, KTXQ took over Buddy, which had a circulation of 100,000.

Writers

 * Chuck Flores (né Charles Anthony Flores; born 1955) has been a photojournalist and music journalist since 1975. He is also a musician. Flores has been assistant editor with Buddy since 1989.
 * Tom Geddie (né Tommy Maurice Geddie; born 1946)
 * Shawn D. Henderson
 * Rick Koster (Richard Koster; born 1955) wrote his first article, professionally, for Buddy in 1978. It was about Sammy Hagar. In 1998, St. Martin's Press published his book, Texas Music. As of 1997, Koster has been writing for The Day in New London, Connecticut.
 * Tim Schuller
 * Kirby Warnock (né Kirby Franklin Warnock; born 1952) was editor from 1976 to 1982
 * Jan Sikes (né Janice Kay Smith; born 1951)
 * Jackie Don Loe (born 1965)
 * Mary Jane Farmer (né Mary Jane Ewing; born 1940), reporter for Buddy from February 2013 to present
 * Lisa Rollins (PhD) (née Lisa Lynette Rollins; 1965–2014) contributed to a feature, "Spotlight on Performers"
 * Kathleen Hudson, PhD (née Kathleen Ann Pillow; born 1945) won an award in 1989 from the Texas Press Women's Communication for her story, "You're Gonna Make It After All: Sonny Curtis" (Sonny Curtis). An academic in higher education and freelance writer, Hudson was the founding executive director in 1987 of the Texas Heritage Music Foundation in Kerrville, and served in that position until 2001

Selected writers who started with Buddy in 1973

 * Stoney Burns,
 * Rob Edleson (né Lewis Robin Edleson; born 1946)
 * Steve Brooks (né Charles Stephen Brooks; born 1949) (graphic artist)
 * Ronald McKeown (né Ronald Houston McKeown; born 1946) (editor)
 * Jesus D. Carrillo (né Jesus Domingo Carrillo; born 1952)

Addresses

 * 11258 Goodnight Lane, Suite 102, Dallas, Texas 75229
 * 953 South Moore, Sulphur Springs, Texas 75482

Disambiguation

 * Not to be confused with the South Korean LGBT magazine, Buddy.
 * Not to be confused with the Buddy Magazine, a bi-monthly published in Prague, founded July 2007 (issue No. 1) (http://buddymag.cz)

Selected videography

 * When Dallas Rocked (2013): 64 minute documentary – interviews, photos, and commentary from the people who were there and lived through the hay-day of the Dallas rock n roll music scene – during the 1970s and 1980s. Produced by Kirby Warnock, former Buddy magazine editor.  Warnock narrates.

Affiliations

 * In 1977, 1978, Buddy was affiliated with KZEW-FM (a Dallas radio station known from 1973 to 1989 as "The Zoo")
 * In 1982, Buddy was the official magazine of the Texxas Jam

Format

 * Beginning around 1982, Buddy was issued in tabloid size and format.

Selected issues

 * "The Bob Dylan Story," "Plus Kinky Friedman All Star &#10017; Issue" (as featured on the cover), January 1974

Early coverage
''Buddy covered many performing artist before their first studio recording:


 * Ray Wylie Hubbard: Around 1975, Buddy chronicled his emergence before his first album.

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Buddy's Texas Music Awards
Buddy's Texas Music Awards ("The Buddies") is an annual readers poll survey that debuted 1973. The awards were presented at a black-tie event. The new act categories are chosen by music journalists.