C. Paul Buckles

C. Paul Buckles web.mac.com/c.buckles b. October 24, 1951 Austin, Texas1968 -Began playing the electric bass by ear and with help from bandmatesFeb 1969 -First professional gig $11.251972 -Recorded single "Truckin' it Home" b/w "Pay Attention" released on Topaz Records, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA with the group CODY. Wrote 'A' side, co-wrote 'B' side. Learned to play rhythm guitar1973-1974 -Studied and taught (at King Music Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA) "The Electric Bass, Volumes 1 & 2" by Roger Filiberto, Mel Bay Publications1975-1976 -Co-founded and performed with Latino pop group BROWN SUGAR, which continues to record and tour the Southwest today1978 -Moved to Denver, Colorado USA. Toured rock nightclub circuit in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico and Nebraska with the rock groups KICK and THE SCANDAL playing covers1982-1985 -Co-founded power pop group THE RUMBLE which recorded a killer demo and payed concerts at The Mercury Café, The Rainbow Music Hall, Walabi's, Mr. Lucky's, The Blue Note(in Boulder, Colorado) Aspen City Limits, etc. and opened for international acts such as THE CHURCH(Australia) GENERAL PUBLIC (England) SACRED COWS, JACK MACK & THE HEARTATTACK (USA) and THE SUBURBS1993-1994 -Worked as a 'bassist-for-hire' clients included: country and western band WAY OUT WEST, Nashville recording artist/fiddler extaordinaire CHRIS DOERING (who also appears on 'Old Friend' released in 1996) funk trio MOTOR BOOTY, a bluegrass trio TWO BROTHERS and jazz pop singer/songwriter DONNIE SCOTT1994 - Began working exclusively with my own songs as a 'performing songwriter' singing and playing acoustic 6 and 12 string guitar and mandolin and ocassionally dobro1996 -First solo release "Old Friend" on Cottonwood Shade Recordings (cassette only ..CWS1CS)1997 -Gigged regularly @ The Glory Café, 76 S Pennsylvania in Denver and La Dolce Vita, 5756 Olde Wadsworth Blvd in Arvada, worked on next solo release "Lady of the Lake" (which is currently(2006) slated to be included in The Butterfly Project with an optimistic release of summer 2007) always playing open mics around the Denver and mountain areas1998 -Two weeks in Hawai`i at Waikiki....experienced the spirit of Aloha, fell in love with Hawai`ian music, began learning slack key guitar upon return to the mainland incorporating open tunings into original material21OCT1999 to 10FEB2000 -Guitarist for jazz outfit A TRIO BY DANA, featuring the fabulous sax of Dana Singleton2000-2005 -Apparently "...found a niche..." in Bossa Nova according to close friends, associates and opinion lenders Began using Spanish guitar (i.e. classical nylon string guitar) to play Bossa Nova giving it an authentic voice continued to expand the repertoire, backround in Romance languages (Spanish, French and Italian) aided in learning the Portuguese lyrics, continued with open tunings in song composition (even transposing older songs to open tunings) as well as learning new slack key guitar pieces2006 -Released cd 'BossaNovaNights' a live recording from 2005 at The Walnut Room in Denver and "Old Friend' (on cd for the first time) on Cottonwood Shade Recordings. Set up a web site and extended availibility of recordings to CD Baby and iTunes. Began producing 'The Open Mic Diary' a 30 min video podcast of local Denver and surrounding areas' open mics.......(posted on web site and iTunes) 2007 -February: Episode Seven at The Java Creek Café made available. -March: 18 'The Butterfly Project: The Early Recordings'[...now called, 'Lady of the Lake'] released on Cottonwood Shade Recordings being the first of four, five song CD's in 'The Butterfly Project' series. 30: Episode Eight of 'The Open Mic Diary' shot at the Java Creek Café (All Episodes available for free on iTunes) -December: finishing work on side project called 'Sandy and the SurfSonics'/Oceanica, surf rock instrumentals (my first love in music) http://www.myspace.com/sandyandthesurfsonics