This musician of the XX Century lives on in this XXI Century, and beyond.
After listening to my recently-received CD "The Buddy Holly Story" (this re-issue was not available a few years back -- get it), I write:
Listening to tunes such as "Maybe Baby," "That'll Be The Day," "Peggy Sue" and "Rave On," I had this lucid thought: Presley could not play the guitar like this. (Perhaps Crickets band memeber Waylon Jennings is getting some licks in, too).
Holly "ushered in" the whole Sixties Rock Guitar Thing: The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, etc.
Holly, and such great Black guitarists as Elmore James and Muddy Waters, that is, did the ushering.
Get "The Buddy Holly Story" in any format you choose, and when you listen to it, get to the volume control on whatever you are using to hear this great work, and TURN IT UP.
