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Buddy Holly Reconsidered
Today in the Wall Street Journal (go here) I review Rave OnBuddy Holly, an album that will be released this coming Tuesday. It pairs 19 contemporary and established rock artists with songs associated with rock's least-known and most misunderstood founder. The result is expressionistic and interpretive, much in the way that If I Were a Carpenter ...
Richie Hayward: February 6, 1946 - August 12, 2010
By C. Michael Bailey Drummer and Little Feat founder Richie Hayward passed away Thursday, August 12, 2010, in his current home of Victoria, British Columbia. He was 64 years old. Originally Hailing from Clear Lake, Iowa, Hayward would be instrumental in the percussion on scores of recordings by Robert Plant, Robert Palmer, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, ...
Rest in Peace? The Perils of Posthumous Pop
Often the artists vision is ignored in music released after their death. Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and John Lennon have all had music released after their deaths and the music has been tampered with in ways the artists might not have approved. When the Beatles recorded Buddy Hollys Crying, Waiting, Hoping at their audition for Decca ...
Leo Fender Honored Posthumously
The Recording Academy will bestow a technical award on the guitar maker whose instruments revolutionized pop music's sound. No invention since the phonograph more dramatically affected how popular music is made than Fender guitars, arriving as they did with the birth of rock 'n' roll. Buddy Holly was an early Fender convert; Jimi Hendrix used the ...
Buddy Holly 50th the Day Music Didn't Die
Sorry, Don McLean, but the music didnt die 50 years later, Buddy Hollys songs still alive in tunes we hear today. Buddy Holly was the James Dean of his generation. But whereas Dean who died at 24 in a car crash in California was celebrated for his brooding screen presence, it was Hollys earnestness ...
Not Fade Away: Remembering Buddy Holly
Next Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of the plane crash that claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. The Big Bopper Richardson. In the current issue of Rolling Stone, Hollys friends, family and fellow musicians remember an artist who helped invent rock & roll as we know it today. Jonathan Cott revisits 1959s ...
