Chad Calhoun
Lead vocal and guitar
Buffalo Star · Prescott, Arizona · Since 2018
A wide-open sound.
Built around the story.
Buffalo Star is a four-piece alternative rock, alt-country, and junk-drawer Americana band founded around Chad Calhoun's songwriting.
The band
Quiet and close. Then all the way open.
Founded in Prescott in 2018, Buffalo Star follows personal stories down the back roads between indie rock, alt-country, and Americana.
The band draws from roots-conscious rock and songwriters including The Tragically Hip and Joey Landreth, alongside the college-rock and alt-country traditions of R.E.M., Drive-By Truckers, and early Wilco.
The songs can lean quiet and close, then open into wide guitars and the kind of chorus that belongs in a room full of people. That range carries from intimate Prescott rooms to festival and fair stages across Arizona.
Current four-piece
The people in the room.
Buffalo Star's full electric lineup is the band's widest and most dynamic live presentation.
Chris Bennett
Guitar
Cole Lysons
Bass
Harlan Mark Vale
Drums
The recorded chapter
Thirteen songs on Back Roads.
Released by Blue Theory Records in 2024, Back Roads carries wide-open guitars, road-worn melody, and independent Arizona songwriting.
Local press
Prescott is part of the sound.
“Honest storytelling, rich musicianship and a balance of softness and raw edge.”
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