Buddy Holly Experience

During our travels in April, 2016 we found ourselves in Lubbock, Texas...birth place of Buddy Holly.

We spent some time at the Buddy Holly Center which features a permanent exhibit on the life and music of Buddy Holly. 

Personal collections from his family tell about his early life: born September 7 1936 in Lubbock, Texas Charles Hardin Holley (nicknamed Buddy) was the youngest of four children. Musical talent ran in the family, and the children were encouraged to play. 

In junior high (1949) Buddy and a friend Bob Montgomery formed a band and played for local events.  In 1955 Buddy was offered a recording contract with Decca Records in Nashville, but most of his recording was done in Clovis, New Mexico.  Norman and Vi Petty Recording studio helped develop the sounds and talents of the Crickets and Buddy Holly.  As a side trip, we drove to Clovis and toured the Norman and Vi Petty Rock & Roll Museum, and drove by the recording studio building.  

His career was cut short when a plane crash in 1959 near Clear Lake, Iowa took Buddy's life.  We saw his gravesite in Lubbock.