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Various Artists: Stay All Night – Buddy Holly's Country Roots

Joe Nick Patoski, West Texas Roots, July 2004

BUDDY HOLLY took the world by storm when he broke out of Lubbock, Texas in 1957. His singing and playing was the freshest version of rock and roll to come down the line. It was as if his music had come out of a vacuum from somewhere in the middle of the proverbial nowhere.

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