A wall of platinum records and awards from Buford Jones's career

★ Honors and credits

The artists he served

Thirty-two multi-platinum artists, and a great many more besides.

★ Honors

Awards and recognition

Parnelli AwardsParnelli Audio Innovator Award22nd Annual Parnelli Awards, 2024
TECTEC Award, 1989Outstanding Creative Achievement, Sound Reinforcement Engineer. Nominated four times.
★Lifetime Achievement AwardCowtown Society of Western Music
2004Top Dog Front of House Engineer2004
NAMMNAMM Oral HistoryInterviewed for the NAMM Oral History Program, 2019
Belmont UniversityBelmont UniversityInstructor, Advanced Live Sound Mixing

★ Front of house for

On the bill

Pink Floyd★David Bowie★Eric Clapton★Prince
Linda Ronstadt★James Taylor★Jackson Browne★Stevie Wonder★George Harrison

    Led Zeppelin sits outside this list on purpose. Buford supplied additional PA and assisted the band’s mixer on multiple Showco shows. He did not mix the band, and he has never claimed otherwise.

    ★ Verified credits

    1. Pink Floyd, Delicate Sound of ThunderEngineer and mixing on the original 1988 live album and concert film.WikipediaDiscogs
    2. Pink Floyd, A Momentary Lapse of Reason tourFront-of-house engineer and live mix, two years and roughly two hundred shows.FOH Magazine
    3. Eric Clapton, UnpluggedSound engineer on the MTV special and album.WikipediaDiscogs
    4. Linda Ronstadt, Live in HollywoodLive sound engineer and front of house.WikipediaOn The Records
    5. Randy Meisner, Live in DallasProducer, engineer, and acoustic guitar.Discogs
    6. FM, the 1978 motion pictureSound for the Linda Ronstadt concert sequence.IMDb
    7. David BowieFront of house across the tours of the 1970s, beginning with Diamond Dogs in 1974, and on the Sound+Vision tour in 1990.SoundPro
    8. Jackson BrowneFront of house across multiple tours from 1980.NAMM
    9. Faith HillFront of house for approximately six years.
    10. Clint Black, Spend My TimeTouring and technical crew.Wikipedia
    11. Lynyrd SkynyrdSystem engineer on the 1977 tour.
    12. Uriah HeepJapan, 1971, the first of roughly fourteen tours and trips Buford worked in that country.
    13. Elvis PresleyThree shows in Louisiana. Bill Porter mixed; Buford engineered the system.
    14. Prince, James Taylor, ZZ Top, Stevie Wonder, The Kinks, George HarrisonTouring front of house and live sound.SoundProParnelli Awards
    15. Trax Recording StudioOwner and operator, with studio engineering, mixing, and production across many years.
    16. Meyer SoundFifteen years in sound and marketing, and a member of the global education team.FOH Magazine
    17. Belmont University and Full Sail UniversityInstructor of Advanced Live Sound Mixing at Belmont; guest seminars presented to the full student body at Full Sail.
    18. Full discographyStudio, live, and compilation credits.DiscogsIMDb