Violet Crown Review

Spin This: June 28

June 28, 2011 2:00 pm by: Art Levy

Rave On Buddy Holly: Buddy Holly would have been 75 this year, and it's hard not to wonder about all the music he could have created had his life not been cut tragically short by that plane crash on February 3, 1959. A flurry of British Invasion bands owe their sounds and careers to Holly's inventive mix of rockabilly, pop, and rock and roll; in short, the '60s would not have happened without some musical vision out of Lubbock, Texas. Holly's music is still an influential strain in some indie circles as a number of bands have borrowed his crystal-clear pop sense. Rave On Buddy Holly collects a who's-who of contemporary acts (as well as a few dinosaurs) and gives them the daunting task of finding their own spins on some of Holly's iconic tracks. And daunting it is. Because the songs are so iconic, only a handful are able to break away from Holly's shadow. The...
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