The sweetest music you’ll never hear.
Continue reading...Buddy Holly
070: Buddy Holly, ‘That’ll Be the Day’
Buddy Holly’s great song and the night The Grateful Dead backed me singing it. Yeah, for real.
Continue reading...002: Buddy Holly, ‘Learning the Game’
Written and sung at 22 and a half, a month before he died. At that age, Lennon was recording ‘Love Me Do’ and Dylan had just finished his first album of original material.
Continue reading...155: Buddy Holly, ‘It Doesn’t Matter Anymore’
When the weather’s right, this song can still make me cry.
Continue reading...122: George Harrison (The Beatles), ‘You Know What to Do’ b/w Buddy Holly, ‘You’re the One’
So you thought (as I did) that you know every George Harrison/Beatles recording and every post-puberty Buddy Holly recording? Here are two you don’t know. And you just may have a hard time telling them apart.
Continue reading...194: The Rolling Stones, ‘Not Fade Away’ (1964)
My buddies Vocal Line are going to back The Stones on stage in Copenhagen. While pretending to not be jealous, I remember The Stones as I saw them on their first tour of the US, in 1964. You can’t always get what you want, but that memory does Not Fade Away.
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