Buddy Holley
N 33° 33.908 W 101° 48.856
14S E 238750 N 3717489
Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie
Waymark Code: WMGTC
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/08/2006
Views: 159
Buddy Holly’s influence on popular music is enormous. The recordings he made in Clovis are extraordinary for their ingenuity and high level of engineering. Long before overdubbing became a common practice, Holly was "layering" his records with multiple vocal and instrumental lines (as he did on Words Of Love and Listen To Me).
He was an experimenter as well. Anything was fair game –– J.I.’s drumming on a cardboard box, playing electric guitar through an organ speaker, adding a delicate celeste –– if it fit the musical textures Holly was painting.
That Buddy Holly and The Crickets could make it all sound so easy that any high-school garage band could play right along is a testament to their genius. Holly’s trademark "chord lead" style of rhythmic guitar playing can be heard in every rock ‘n roll band since, from the Beatles to the kids next door.
For musicians, his spirit and creativity remain basic lessons on how rock ‘n roll music should be played. The enormous joy that his music still brings is an inspiration for why it is worthwhile to do so. His friend Sonny Curtis expressed it best when he said that Buddy Holly lives whenever rock ‘n roll is played.
Buddy Holley Center
Description:
This is the gravesite of one of the most influential singer/songwriters of rock. He turned from Country to Rock with the success of Elvis. His big hit came in 1957 with "That'll be the Day", followed by "Peggy Sue", and many others in 2 short years.
Buddy Holley died in a plane crash, along with The Big Bopper (J.R Richardson) and Ritchie Valens. They had departed Mason City, Iowa after an evening performance.
Date of birth: 09/07/1936
Date of death: 02/03/1959
Area of notoriety: Entertainment
Marker Type: Horizontal Marker
Setting: Outdoor
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Dawn to Dusk, every day
Fee required?: No
Web site: [Web Link]
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