Buddy Holly Sessions

The second volume of this definitive, double-trilogy on the iconic musician - friends and colleagues. Buddy Holly during his adolescent years in the midst of 1950s Americana: the Chitlin' circuit, the Cotton Club, juke joints, sock hops, graduation, and malt shakes at diners. Both dialogue and narrative touch on Chess Records, Sun Records, Sam Phillips, Colonel Tom Parker, Alan Freed, The Blackboard Jungle, and the impact of the exploding purchaser-power of the teenager demographic. More of Buddy's musical influences are revealed: the Chords, the Crows, the Crew Cuts, the Shirelles, the Chordettes, the Penguins, the Orioles, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Frankie Lymon, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent, Johnny Cash, BB King, Willie Nelson, Kitty Wells, Hank Thompson, and Bill Haley. We also meet some of Buddy's friends including: Bob Montgomery, Jerry Allison, Joe Maudlin, Larry Welborn, Roy Orbison, Waylon Jennings, Sonny Curtis, Elvis Presley, Marty Wilde, Don and Phil Everly, within the context of many pre-eminent sounds of the time: Western swing, Rhythm & Blues, Country & Western, Rockabilly, Gospel, and Bluegrass - and of course, fledgling Rock 'n' Roll.