Jerry Allison, the drummer for Buddy Holly and The Crickets who is credited as a co-writer on "Peggy Sue" and "That’ll Be the Day," has died. He was 82. The musician’s passing was confirmed on ...

Editor’s Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker, Librarian Emeritus, Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at [email protected]. Today’s article about Buddy Holly and the ...

Sonny Curtis, the frontman of Buddy Holly’s band The Crickets who wrote classic songs including the theme for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” has died. He was 88. Curtis died Friday “after a sudden ...

Editor’s Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker, Librarian Emeritus, Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached [email protected]. Today’s article about Buddy Holly and the ...

Jerry Allison, an architect of rock drumming who played and co-wrote songs with childhood friend Buddy Holly and whose future wife inspired the classic song “Peggy Sue,” has died at 82. His death was ...

Ninety-four years ago today, the prolific studio guitarist and producer who worked with a long list of legends was born in Oklahoma.

"My life has been what you might call an uneventful one, and it seems there is not much of interest to tell,” Buddy Holly once wrote in a high school essay. Still, the young student — born Charles ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jerry Allison, an architect of rock drumming who played and co-wrote songs with childhood friend Buddy Holly and whose future wife inspired the classic “Peggy Sue,” has died. He was ...

Jerry Allison, the drummer in the 1950s rock band Buddy Holly and the Crickets whose rough-hewed style on “Peggy Sue” and “That’ll Be the Day” and on later recordings by the Everly Brothers set a ...

Jerry “JI” Allison, drummer for Buddy Holly and the Crickets and co-writer on some of their biggest hits, has died. He was 82. The official Facebook page for Holly announced Allison’s death, though no ...