Buffalo Benford Multimedia, LLC is the production entity
for Benford E. Standley
Over the years he has produced many hundreds of events, videos and shows which include names like:
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Laura Huxley Bobby Carradine Miranda Lambert Jack Ingram Michael Martin Murphy Buddy Red Bow
Junior Brown
Jack Tempchin
Rosie Flores
Jerry Jeff Walker Riders in The Sky Jack Tempchin John Andrew Parks Travis Howard
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Buck Page Riders Purple Sage Spencer Davis Billy Swan Kacey Musgrave Aaron Neville Max Gail
Freebo--(Bass,
Bonnie Raitt)
Jeffery Steele Robert Miles
Count Smokula Megan Linsey Kenny Lee Lewis
Bob Wills, Jr.
Amaya Rose
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Benford has produced wild west shows, rodeos, the World Chile Cook-off in Terlingua, TX, several 3-day music festivals, 5
years of a digital film festivals, an arts and craft festival on the strip in Vegas, and concerts in a Vegas casinos, concerts
in Guatemala, Central America, and 5 states in the U.S. Helped produce a record in the Honduras. Benford produced
one of the most important symposiums in the nation for runaway and missing children, hundreds of concerts, plus many
other events & shows, and too many club dates including a country night every Monday night for 3 months at the famous
Whisky A GoGo.
He has co-produced several record projects, including the Official State Ballad of Montana, and 2 award winning music
videos that were dedicated to runaway and missing children, a subject he has written two books on. He's produced and
co produced many benefits for children and youth, and written major legislation for kids and help establish the Runaway
Hotline in Austin, Texas, a Nation Wide program to help runaway kids in America that is still in operation today..
This 9/19 and through the rest of this year and next two years he will be releasing and marketing his long awaited multi-
media presentation of the Jimmie Rodgers Saga documentary that has been close to a life's work, a film released
based on Jimmie Rodgers
He's presently working with Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan on a documentary DVD, Concert and TV Show about the
life of "The man that started it all", also known as "The Father of Country Music," with interviews with Willie Nelson,
Les Paul, Aaron Neville, Kris Kristofferson, Toby Keith, and many greats in music and music history.
Standley is doing the rough edit on a online series that began working with the Eric Clapton Camp. That grew to a project
with Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Les Paul, Haggard, Jackson Browne and other great called PioneerTroubadours.com, he
has just produced a trailer for Haggard's documentary movie, working very close with Haggard on the project, and helping
Haggard find, log and upgrade his personal archives for eight months, two of which were on the road with Bob Dylan and
Merle Haggard, where he was the only video and digital camera allowed on the tour. His work and friendship with Merle
Haggard for some years, and introducing Haggard to Les Paul and Bob Dylan were highlights of his long career.
He's finishing a ten year writing project on the state and fate of children in the U.S. during the last quarter of a century.
See more on his 4 decades of work for children and youth at StudioClub.com/Colorado.htm He is also working on a
autobiography book MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH on his 4+ decades in the entertainment business, and putting
his book FROM ARMADILLOS TO MASTODONS, a book about the Tonkawa Indians of the Texas Hill Country online.
Most important he is writing a book about his 12 years as a friend and partner with Merle Haggard working on three
movies and several other projects.
Benford's history in the entertainment business goes back to 1967, when he started a band while he was in college in the
West Texas town of Alpine, where he went to ride bulls and rodeo. Playing drums in a country western rock 'n roll band in
the sixties was a great beginning for a career that spans these past 4 decades. Because of his business studies in college
and being raised by a banker, he went to producing and management in 1970, after he moved to Austin, Texas about the
time the "progressive country" music scene was started, that gave birth to Jerry Jeff Walker, Michael Martin Murphy and
the "Armadillo cosmic gonzo cowboy" scene. Then Willie Nelson moved to town, taking the lead in creating the "Outlaw"
sound. Through these years Benford was right in the middle of this "happening," and producing many of the cutting edge
concerts in Austin, TX.
After a number of years working as a psychology intern in a number of mental hospitals, backwards, surgery wards, study
programs working with autistic children, and a year of politics writing legislation and working with the U.S. Justice Dept.,
CIA, FBI, Texas Rangers, Texas Senate and House Sub Committees on Human Resources concerning the state and fate
of children, including work with FBI's Most Wanted John Walsh and many others in youth care in the United States.
Following this time in his life he left the country for near ten years, living and traveling every country in Central and South
American, some of Europe, and extensively Mexico with his central goal studying how other countries treat and care for
their children and youth, visiting every Aztec, Mayan and Incan ruin on earth, and escaping with his copy of Whole Earth
Catalogue, what he had seen and experienced as a youth growing up in the sixties and early seventies in the good ole us
of A while also attending 3 universities and getting hours equivalent to a BA in Economics and Psychology and 30 hours
in Masters studies in Psychology.
Standley began to study "multimedia" in 1993, while negotiating a million dollar CD-Rom deal with IBM. He was turned on
to the world of multimedia by Native American producer Dan Jones while Dan was working with Kevin Costner, and while
working with Willie Nelson on Farm Aid 1994, as co-producer of the short wave radio broadcast of Farm Aid, he began to
tinker with this new Super Informational Highway.. He saw the future and got on board the cyberspace band wagon that
day on the bus with Willie Nelson, Computer Bob, Kris Kristofferson, Neil Young and others...West Multimedia
In 1995, he produced one of the very first live video/audio Internet cybercast. The webcast was from the world famous
Troubadour in Hollywood. On the lineup were some classic LA acts including, John York from the Byrds, Greg Harris of
the Flying Burrito Brothers, Buck Page, founding member of the Riders of the Purple Sage, producer Sid Smith (Circus of
the Stars, Bob Hope's Christmas Specials for ten years, Miss Universe Pageants) was playing the cardboard box and
some other LA top acts. In 97, while living back in Austin, Tx, he produced a live Internet cybercast of Willie Nelson and
Friends playing for the 100 year birthday of Jimmie Rodgers ( Father of Country Music). The cybercast was produced in
concert with Sony/Columbia Online and he produced the show on a Bob Dylan website. The show was a Yahoo "Pick of
the Week," and a pick by CitySearch.com, was so successful that the Sony server system crashed in San Francisco.
In 1998, Benford returned to LA to launch his new project the StudioClub.com A Virtual Entertainment InterNetwork on
the World Wide Web. The site was launched on June 22, 1998, with a taped show produced on May 26, 1998. The site
is still online lasting the wild ride of the Internet's first decade. In 2006 and 09 the site was seeing an average of one
million visitors per month, with no advertising or marketing budget to speak of. Using the StudioClub.com as his web
based platform, Standley has produced hundreds of shows over the past 13 years, including webcasting the taped audio
and pictures and text of the weekly Ronnie Mack Barn dance, which was from a honky-tonk at the corner of Hollywood
and Vine, the most famous street corner in the world, every Tuesday night for a year. WestMultimedia
In February of 1999, he produced a 5 hour live audio-video webcast of the First American in the Arts Awards Ceremony,
which went off without a hitch and was broadcast via YAHOO! In 2000 his company again produced the First American
In the Arts Awards show with his partners at Yahoo.com broadcast and Mark Cuban and company in Dallas, TX
During much of early 2000 he worked to manage StudioClub.com and his documentary projects. He is also producing
a project Kicking Up Dust a online music history museum documenting and tell the history of the entertainment
business in the United States. He has met with the National Endowment of the Arts on this project in Washington, DC.
The website is being prepared for a Fall 2013 launch, and is tied to the PioneerTroubadours.com project
He is working on the 7th Annual PasoDigitalFilmFestival.com, and in Silicon Valley the DigitalMediaFestival.com
and he posted the Malibu Film Festival online for 4 years. Both of his film festival has top position for "digital" festivals
on all major search engines. From Clint Eastwood to Kevin Bacon, Academy Award Editor Joel Cox, Johnny Rivers,
Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Luke Perry, Kathleen Quinlan, director Mick Jackson, We Are the World creator Ken Kragen, Gary
Busey, Francisco Quinn, Bobbie Carradine, and many other greats in music and film have attended his Digital Festivals.
His personal website is at BenfordStandley.com
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