The Buddy Holly Center’s annual Summer Showcase Concert Series continues its season on Thursday, July 17, with the Joe ...

Buddy Holly‘s influence on generations of rock and country musicians has inspired various tribute projects in the 55 years since his death.On September 7th, on what would have been his 78th ...

In addition to the blues and country from radio, Holly was exposed to gospel music in church, and on Stay All Night his brothers perform a pair of standards — “When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold ...

Buddy Holly is a Texas native. (Facebook/Buddy Holly) The ceremony/concert will take place on Saturday, Aug, 13 at the Carthage Civic Center in Carthage, Texas, and will be part of the 25th annual ...

• Buddy Holly: Today, we remember Holly as a great innovator, one of the first to add strings to a rock ‘n’ roll recording, ... Holly’s early roots were in country music, ...

Sixty years after Buddy Holly's death, a trip to the Winter Dance Party in Clear Lake, ... "Buddy played the music that I loved — the music I grew up on: country-western, ...

Future country star Waylon Jennings (left) and rock icon Buddy Holly in a photo booth in 1959. A month before the “Winter Dance Party” tour began, Holly asked his friend Jennings to learn the ...

The plane went down and Holly died at age 22 on Feb. 3, 1959. The day is now known as “the day the music died” thanks to the song, “American Pie,” by Don McLean.

It’s the day the music died. In the early morning hours of February 3, 1959, a small aircraft carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson crashed a few miles ...

Jennings was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. He died from diabetes complications in 2002. “Buddy was the first guy who had confidence in me,” Jennings told CMT .

At just sixteen years old, Buddy Holly made his first appearance on local television. By 1955, his band, ... his style of music shifted from country western to rock and roll.

The Buddy Holly Center’s Summer Showcase Concert Series continues Thursday, July 17, with a performance by the Joe Trevino Band, sponsored by Civic Lubbock, Inc. and the City of Lubbock.