Music
May 7, 2019
The Mount Rushmore of Texas Music Beats All Comers
Yes, we’re taking this week’s overblown Twitter fight way too seriously.
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Music
October 2, 2018
Buddy Holly Muse Peggy Sue Gerron Did More Than Just Get Married
The namesake for two of Buddy Holly’s hits passed away at 78 in Lubbock on Monday.
Music
August 5, 2016
Long Time Gone
Thirteen years after they were banned from country radio, it seems that Texas is ready to make nice with the Dixie Chicks. But it wasn't easy.
Music
June 15, 2016
His Mickey Mouse Ways
In a world full of evil dudes pretending to be good guys, Waylon Jennings was a good guy pretending to be an evil dude and never quite succeeding.
The Daily Post
March 12, 2015
National Transportation Safety Board Considers Reinvestigating the Plane Crash That Killed Buddy Holly
Oh boy.
The Culture
November 6, 2014
That’ll Be the Frames
Buddy Holly’s trademark black-rimmed glasses were a key part of his public persona. But he was too blind to see it that way at first.
Travel & Outdoors
January 21, 2013
The Music Drive
ROUTE: Turkey to Lubbock (the long way) DISTANCE: 366 miles NUMBER OF COUNTIES: 13 WHAT TO LISTEN TO: Buddy Holly’s That’ll Be the Day and Waylon Jennings’s Ol’ WaylonWest Texas is the Texas of wide-open spaces, but it is also the Texas of music giants, starting in the Rolling Plains
Music
January 20, 2013
The Real Buddy Holly
His life was as short and sweet as his songs, but who was the Lubbock rocker whose influence over popular music will not fade away?
Music
January 20, 2013
The Widow’s Pique
In Lubbock they call her the "Spanish Yoko Ono," and María Elena Holly, Buddy Holly’s widow, has always had a troubled relationship with his conservative hometown. Some folks rave on that it’s her greed that has killed the city’s Buddy Holly Music Festival. But it’s more complicated than that.
Music
April 16, 2012
Want to Sleep in Farrah Fawcett’s Bedroom?
The Corpus Christi ranch house where the bombshell lived during high school can be yours for $215,000.
Music
December 14, 2011
The Man Who Gave Buddy Holly His Glasses
The Wall Street Journal profiled 96-year-old Lubbock optometrist J. Davis Armistead, who outfitted the iconic musician with his famous specs.
The Culture
December 1, 2011
Furry Friday: Red Headed Kittie
Willie Nelson’s classic album Red Headed Stranger gets “The Kitten Covers” treatment, but which other Texas albums deserve to be profiled?
Music
June 30, 2011
Randall Poster
On producing a Buddy Holly tribute album and more.
Feature
February 1, 2009
The Night the Music Died
Fifty years ago, a plane carrying Buddy Holly crashed in a remote Iowa cornfield. This month, hundreds of fans will gather at the ballroom where he played his final show to sing, dance, and mourn the greatest rock star ever to come out of Texas.
Music
April 30, 2000
Gotta Lubbock
Buddy Holly. Waylon Jennings. Carolyn Hester. The Hancocks. The Flatlanders. An oral history of the state's most storied music scene.
Music
January 1, 1997
What a Hall!
Rock, don’t run, to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, where Texas greats from T-Bone Walker to Sly Stone get their due.
Music
December 1, 1995
Good Buddy
Forget Buddy Holly? That’ll be the day. Plus: Boone Pickens’ hellish fight, Norma McCorvey’s heavenly conversion.
Music
October 1, 1995
Raving On
Two decades after he played the role of his life in ‘The Buddy Holly Story,’ Gary Busey’s hero worship has made him his own worst enemy.
Music
March 31, 1975
This‘ll Be the Day
In Lubbock Buddy Holly was just a skinny kid with glasses, but to rock-and-roll fans he was—and is—a whole lot more.