On January 22, 1959, 22-year-old Buddy Holly recorded six songs in his New York City apartment. No one could have known they ...

Of all the unique oddities of my career, I am perhaps proudest of the fact that I am forever linked with Buddy Holly. I have heard it said that children dream in a different way than grown-ups. To ...

Jerry Allison released a single in 1958 under his middle name, Ivan. It only reached No. 68 on the charts. However, as a drummer and songwriter with Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Allison had much more ...

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 ...

When Bob Dylan was honored with a Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, he started reflecting on how his songs related to literature. But before pointing out three definitive books that impacted him ...

More concert-like than your typical book musical, the show features explosively-rendered live on-stage performances of more than 20 classic songs which highlights Holly's spirit of youthful ambition ...