V-Day

I'm not totally moping around, being all emo-ish on valentine's day. I barely even noticed it. Still, I wish that I had a reason to really celebrate it, and I wish things had gone better.

And back to real life.

Thirty One Today - Aimee Mann
To Love Somebody - Bee Gees
Kiss The Rain - Billy Myers
Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan
Fall Apart Again - Brandi Carlile
Love's Made A Fool Of You - Buddy Holly
Love Loss Hope Repeat - Carbon Leaf
Gray Room - Damien Rice
Stay or Leave - Dave Matthews
Ashes and Wine - A Fine Frenzy
Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
The Last Time I Saw Her - Gordon Lightfoot
Apologies - Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
We Can Work It Out (The Beatles) - Heather Nova
Blues Run the Game - Jackson C. Frank
Fire & Rain - James Taylor
Somos lo que fue - Jesse & Joy
Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) - Phil Collins
I Still Care For You - Ray LaMontagne
Come Around - Rhett Miller
Much Farther To Go - Rosie Thomas

I still think of you.

Hype - Buy

Alone Again...

I think I messed that up. I only hope that things can be fixed, given time. I really, really do.

Blues Run the Game (Jackson C. Frank) - Colin Meloy
Come Around - Rhett Miller
Crying. Waiting. Hoping- Buddy Holly
Fall Apart Again - Brandi Carlile
Hand On Your Heart (Kiley Minogue) - José González
Happiness - Alison Kruass & Union Station
Hello - Schuyler Fisk
I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You - Colin Hay
In The Sun - Joseph Arthur
Last of Days - A Fine Frenzy
Life Less Ordinary - Carbon Leaf
The Long Goodbye - A Girl Called Eddy
Low Millions - Low Millions
Photographs of You - Jon Regen
Please Forgive Me - David Gray
Re: Stacks - Bon Iver
So Sorry - Feist
Stay or Leave - Dave Matthews

Hype - Buy

This Day in History

On this day in history, Buddy Holly and Bob Montgomery opened for Elvis Presley in Lubbock, Texas in 1955. This was one of the highlights of Holly's very short career, and was one of the things that really started him off as a rock and roll frontman. While he had already been getting airtime on various radio stations, Elvis was a huge influence on the younger musician, and would propell him into fame as one of the greatest rock & roll singers of all time.

Crying, Waiting, Wishing - Buddy Holly

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Buddy Holly

I grew up listening to oldies on 105.1 WKOL here in Vermont, as my mother would listen to the station any time the car was moving. As I remember it, it was a 50s/60s station, and has since slid up history through to the early 80s at this point. Unfortunently, it really hasn't been until this past year or so that I've really begun to appreciate the music that 'Kool 105' played.

Through the music that they played, from the Beatles to Chicago and the Eagles, I heard the music of Buddy Holly. The name wouldn't have meant much to me until recently, when I was flipping through a book that I recently purchased and came across a smiling young man - Buddy Holly. Reading through the entry, I learned that he was killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, but not before really making a splash in the Rock & Roll scene. I picked up a double album by the late singer, and really got hooked on his sound, and one of the things that I've really been happy to pick out was the roots of much of the music that we listen to today. Further discussion with my mother revealed that Don McLean's classic song American Pie deals directly with the death of Buddy Holly, which surprised me, although I seem to think that I had heard about that before, it just never made any sort of impact in my mind before now.

Holly was born on September 7th, 1936 in Texas, and learned how to play the piano and guitar, as well as the fiddle, early on. In the 1950s, he formed a band with some friends from high school, and they recorded some songs and played on the local radio station. Holly later made a deal with a record label, although without his friend Montgomery, and released Blue Days, Black Nights and Love Me as Holly and the Two Tunes, which went almost unheard of. Holly, by this time, was writing much of his own material. They renamed themselves Buddy Holly and the Crickets, opened for Elvis Presley, then cut another demo in New Mexico, That'll Be The Day, one of his best known songs, and became a number 1 hit. In 1958, Holly left the Crickets, and went to New York City, where he continued writing music, and got married. In February, they got tired of taking the bus on tour, and chartered a private plane in Iowa. Upon takeoff, the plane crashed, and Buddy Holly's life came to an end. The Crickets continued through to the 1990s, and Holly was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.

Now, for your listening pleasure:

That'll Be The Day - Buddy Holly
Well Alright - Buddy Holly
American Pie - Don McLean