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Buddy Holly not fading from musicians minds on tour
On a winter tour the Crickets faced frostbite and cold in buses until Buddy Holly chartered a plane with Waylon Jennings and Tommy Allsup driving to safety. The tragedy near Mason City, Iowa killed Holly at 22, and tributes followed from famous musicians and a new Decca tribute album.
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Buddy Holly
Paulette Flowers
Otto Kitsinger
King Features Syndicate
Charlie Bunch
Texas
Tommy Ailsup
Lubbock
Waylon Jennings
Buddy
Ritchie Valens
Mason City
Iowa
Charles Hardin
Buddy” Holley
Nashville
Decca
Owen Bradley
Holly
Bradley
Mark Knopfler
Los Lobos
Nanci Griffith
The
Crickets
All Right
Mavericks
Tractors
Marty Chapin Carpenter
Marty Stuart
Steve Earle
Suzy Bogguss
TNN
Buddy and the Crickets
Ellis Amburn
St. Martin’s
Ashley Judd
Arch Kelley IE
Wynonna
Arch
Elijah Judd Kelley