Buzzart Enterprises Inc

Buzzart has gathered music written and recorded by Buzzy Linhart, one of the progenitors of the Singer Songwriter Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. We will be presenting Buzzy’s prodigious body of work, beginning with a recently discovered trunk of unreleased quality recordings made by Buzzy during a period of intense creativity from roughly 1965 to 1979. Robert Shelton of the New York Times wrote in 1964 that Buzzy was the first American musician to successfully blend rock and Indian raga. And New York Times critic Mike Jahn wrote in 1971, “Buzz Linhart can be called one of those unusual cases. As a singer and guitarist, he is so different from the general run as to make you wonder if he really isn’t a brilliant fantasy that happened to work out…I suppose you would call it jazz-rock.” We have compiled an archive of Buzzy’s recordings over the years, selections from which we will stream on the ARCHIVE page of this web-site. We believe that the ARCHIVE will help to demonstrate the significant and almost forgotten role that Buzzy played in the history and evolution of American popular music. We are also lucky that we have come to know of the talents and energy of Bill Black, an audio engineer par excellnce with a keen interest in audio restoration and the music of the 1960s and 1970s. Bill has digitized and in a number of cases restored for us these and other recordings, so that we now have an abundant archive that includes quality recordings of Buzzy’s work from 1965 to the present. We will be augmenting the ARCHIVE from time to time. Material available for licensing appears in the CATALOG section.