Seventy years ago today, on Oct. 15, 1955, a 19-year-old musician from Lubbock, Texas, walked onto the stage at the Cotton ...

The 1957 smash hit by Buddy Holly & the Crickets made a huge impact on the trajectory of rock music around the world, ...

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 ...

The rarest and only known Buddy Holly poster from "The Day the Music Died," when an airplane carrying Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper (real name J.P. Richardson) crashed and killed all three, ...

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 ...