Buddy Henderson (né Harry Fisher Henderson; October 20, 1943 – March 9, 2012), better known as "Bugs" Henderson, was an American blues guitarist. He was popular in Europe and from the 1970s, was based in Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas, where he was known as a local blues guitar legend.
Henderson was born in Palm Springs, California, and spent his early life in Tyler, Texas, where he formed a band called the Sensores at age 16, and later joined Mouse and the Traps. In Dallas–Fort Worth during the early 1970s, he was lead guitarist for the blues/rock band Nitzinger before forming the Shuffle Kings and later a band that was eponymously named. Henderson played with blues musicians such as B. B. King, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, as well as with rhythm and blues saxophonist Don Wise and rock guitarist Ted Nugent.
Henderson died just four days after a benefit concert in his name from complications of liver cancer, aged 68, in March 2012. The performers at the 11-hour "Benefit Bugs" event included Ray Wylie Hubbard, Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King, and Mouse and the Traps, the band from early in his career with the hit songs, "A Public Execution" and "Maid of Sugar – Maid of Spice" that featured his guitar solos.
Discography with Nitzinger 1972 – One Foot in History
as The Bugs Henderson Group 1978 – At Last-Live 1981 – Still Flyin1989 – Backbop
as Bugs Henderson1982 – Back Bop! The Unreleased '82 Sessions 1993 – Years in the Jungle 1995 – Daredevils of the Red Guitar
with The Stratoblasters1986 – Texan Eagles
as Bugs Henderson & The Shuffle Kings1992 – Gitarbazndrumz (Live) 1993 – American Music 1995 – That's the Truth (Live) 1996 – Four Tens Strike Again 1997 – Henderson & Jones (Live) 1998 – Have Blues...Must Rock 2000 – Call of the Wild (Live at the Meisenfrei) 2001 – Adventures of the Shuffle Kings 2003 – We're a Texas Band – Live in Germany 2004 – Stormy Love 2008 – Blue Music 2009 - Vienna Calling
with R. Buchanan, F. King, T. Nugent, J. Winter''' 1997 – Legendary Jams 1976–1980 Compilations 1998 – Heartbroke Again, Blue Flame, BFBL001 2006 – Electric Snow "The Best Of"''
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