It sound simple, but take it from me, it’s not easy to play. The solo is as memorable as any in rock - a blazing jangle of crisply played chords. It’s completely fleshed out here and every little idea in the arrangement would be repeated by anyone with sense enough to cut it. It is as fine and memorable as anything the original Crickets cut. Then Sonny struck gold.Ī song he wrote, “I Fought The Law”, here in its original recording, would have legs and then some. But the world had moved on and The Crickets without Holly were left with his shadow hanging over them. It seems that In Curtis they had stumbled upon a pretty good writer who could just about fill Buddy’s shoes. Here’s one of their concoctions, “A Sweet Love,” a nice song, performed well- it sounds not unlike something you might’ve heard Holly sing. Curtis and a singer with the very un-show biz name Earl Sinks joined up and gave it their best. They were recording with Sonny Curtis, a singer and songwriter (not the modern confessional kind, mind you), when word came of the crash. Like Waylon Jennings, who gave up his seat on that night, they lived to tell the tale. Jerry Allison their solid drummer and Joe B Mauldin, the stand-up bassist, sat the last tour out and were planning to rejoin Holly on the next one. But the band did their part and did it well. He played a Fender Stratocaster when that guitar was still a novelty, writing the playbook for cool licks and becoming a model for rockers everywhere. ![]() Listening to Holly records is instructive. Unlike the Packers without Aaron Rodgers, a team that turned flat footed when the job was taken over by Brett Hundley, Buddy Holly left a pretty good band behind in the Crickets. The man with the oversize glasses and greatest hiccups ever was their leader - it’s hard to overrate just how good he was. Less has been written about the collateral damage that left his former backing band, The Crickets without anyone to back. The same airplane crash took the life of Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. He played his last dates in Iowa before plunging to the ground near the Minnesota border. Photo is in the Public Domain.īuddy Holly is a long time gone.
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