Terry Buffalo Ware

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Terry Buffalo Ware
Origin Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
Genres Rock
Years active1967–present
LabelsOkieMotion Music
Website terrybuffaloware.com

Terry Buffalo Ware is an American guitarist and composer.

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Early life

Ware grew up in the Northwest Oklahoma town of Woodward. He attended the University of Oklahoma and graduated in 1972 with a degree in journalism professional writing.

He studied piano for 10 years beginning at age 9. He began playing guitar at age 14, and is self-taught.[ citation needed ] He also played the trombone in his high school band, and was in the Pride of Oklahoma, the University of Oklahoma's marching band, for one year. While still in high school, Ware played guitar in The Debtor Group, which performed regularly throughout Northwest Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle. The band Sailor which Ware formed in college was a local fixture in Oklahoma music scene of the early 1970s.[ citation needed ]

Career

After graduating college, Ware moved to New Mexico, where he met Ray Wylie Hubbard. He and Hubbard formed Ray Wylie Hubbard and the Cowboy Twinkies, [1] a group which still enjoys cult status. Hubbard and the Cowboy Twinkies performed all over the country from 1973 to 1979, including a stint at the Troubadour in Los Angeles and tours with Willie Nelson.

When the Cowboy Twinkies disbanded, Ware formed The Sensational Shoes in Norman, Oklahoma. This group enjoyed great regional popularity through the mid-1980s. [2] Ware also released his debut album Caffeine Dreams in 1981. [3]

Ware rejoined Hubbard in 1986, and the duo performed all over the United States and overseas. Ware's guitar work on Hubbard's Lost Train of Thought (1992) was critically acclaimed, [4] as was his work on the 1994 release Loco Gringo's Lament [5] and 1997's Dangerous Spirits. [6] Ware performed with Jimmy LaFave from 1997-2000, giving many notable performances such as the July 31, 1999, Central Park Summerstage in New York. [7]

In 1999, Ware was named a Texas Tornado by Buddy Magazine . The Buddy Texas Tornados are "an elite corp of the Lone Star State's finest musicians." [8]

Since 2000, Ware has been a freelance guitarist backing artists including Ray Wylie Hubbard, John Fullbright, Joel Rafael, Michael Fracasso, Eliza Gilkyson, Smokey & the Mirror, Bob Livingston, Audrey Auld, Susan Herndon, Wanda Jackson, Don Conoscenti, Monica Taylor, Mary Reynolds, Red Dirt Rangers, Sam Baker, Greg Jacobs, Ellis Paul, Camille Harp, Iain Matthews, Sandy Rogers, and many others.

In 2003, Ware and the legendary singer-songwriter Bob Childers recorded Two Buffalos Walking-Live at The Blue Door. [9] With John Fullbright, he performed on the 2013 Grammy pre-telecast, and on the David Letterman show in August 2014.

Ware has also released ten CDs on his own label OkieMotion Records, Buffalo Tracks (2001), [10] Ridin' the Reverb Range (2004), [11] Reverb Confidential (2007), [12] Reverb Babylon (2011), [13] Everybody's Got One with Gregg Standridge (2015), [14] Man With Guitar and Amp (2016), Aren't You a Little Old for This? (2018), Into The Dwell (2019), Isolation Reverberation (2020), and Covered Tracks (2021). In December 2011, Reverb Babylon was named one of the Top Ten Best Albums of 2011 by the San Antonio Express-News. [15]

Ware has performed at every Woody Guthrie Folk Festival since it began in 1998, and has led the house band and served as master of ceremonies for the Hoot for Huntington's since 2003. Among the artists he has backed or performed with at the festival are David Amram, Ronny Elliot, Joel Rafael, The Burns Sisters, Rob McNurlin, Emma's Revolution, Kris Delmhorst, Nancy Apple and many others.

Discography

Appears on the following recordings:

Produced the following recordings:

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References

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  2. ↑ Proctor, Dan. Sensational Shoes: Nothing is serious...but the music, Woodward Daily Press, September 19, 1984.
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  13. ↑ Silverstein, Robert. Music Web Express 3000, August 2011; Hill, Doug. Reverb Babylon, a true work of beauty for Ware, The Norman Transcript, August 26, 2011
  14. ↑ Hill, Doug. Terry 'Buffalo' Ware and Gregg Standridge album traverses diverse themes and sound, The Norman Transcript, January 16, 2016
  15. ↑ Beal, Jim. Top 10 albums of 2011, San Antonio Express-News, December 21, 2011.
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