Buddy Tabor

Musician and Neighbor

Welcome to the website for the Buddy Tabor Project, an initiative to celebrate and preserve the music of an extraordinary singer songwriter. Guy “Buddy” Tabor was a humble house painter inspired by Bob Dylan and Hank Williams. He wrote as a poet, sang with a deep smoker’s voice and played with a deft guitar hand. Buddy was a household name in his hometown of Juneau, Alaska, where he was a devoted member of local song circles and a stalwart of the annual Alaska Folk Festival. In the last years of his life, he made pilgrimages to California, where he played for and worked with inmates at Folsom Prison. He released several albums and wrote more than one hundred songs before passing on in 2012 at the age of 63. Despite his talent, Buddy’s extensive music catalog is not well known outside of Alaska’s capital. The Buddy Tabor Project is working to get his music onto streaming services so it can be discovered by new listeners and astute artists inspired to cover it.

Photos by Brian Wallace

News

Buddy died in Juneau on February 5, 2012: Buddy Tabor Obituary

KTOO Article about streaming releases in 2024: Listen: The Buddy Tabor Project

The Alaska Current article about the streaming project: The Alaska Current

Accolades and comments in The Mudcat Cafe: The Mudcat Cafe

Photos by Brian Wallace