Buddy Wright

Buddy Wright is a multi-instrumentalist from Lubbock, Texas, who with his younger sister Tina led the Buddy and Tina Wright Band, an African-American family bluegrass band. Their father Ray played guitar and their mother Pat played bass and sang harmony. Buddy played fiddle, banjo, and lead guitar and sang, and the siblings drew on old-time and gospel music learned from their grandmother in South Carolina. The band recorded a live album in the Netherlands produced by Liz Meyer.

In the newsletter

• No. 17 Fall 1998