Buddy Holly Tribute Album
Wheeeeew, big news courtesy of SPIN. A whole slew of distinguished artists will be getting together to create a tribute album for Buddy Holly.
Artists contributing covers to this project include The Black Keys, Modest Mouse, Julian Casablancas (of The Strokes) and……. ah hell just read the image above and you’ll get a good idea of what this album is about. Honouring the late great Buddy Holly, who died at 22 in a Minnesota plane crash with the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens on February 3, 1959, aka The Day the Music Died, here’s The Black Keys with their soulful rendition of (Ummm, Oh Yeah) Dearest.
And here’s a wonderful song from the man with glasses so famous, Elton John was wearing glasses “not because he needed them, but in homage to Buddy Holly.”
Rave On Buddy Holly tracklist:
1. The Black Keys, “Dearest”
2. Fiona Apple & Jon Brion, “Every Day”
3. Paul McCartney, “It’s So Easy”
4. Florence and the Machine, “Not Fade Away”
5. Cee Lo Green, “(You’re So Square) Baby, I Don’t Care”
6. Karen Elson, “Crying, Waiting, Hoping”
7. Julian Casablancas, “Rave On”
8. Jenny O, “I’m Gonna Love You Too”
9. Justin Townes Earle, “Maybe Baby”
10. She & Him, “Oh Boy”
11. Nick Lowe, “Changing All Those Changes”
12. Patti Smith, “Words Of Love”
13. My Morning Jacket, “True Love Ways”
14. Modest Mouse, “That’ll Be The Day”
15. Kid Rock, “Well…All Right”
16. The Detroit Cobras, “Heartbeat”
17. Lou Reed, “Peggy Sue”
18. John Doe, “Peggy Sue Got Married”
19. Graham Nash, “Raining In My Heart”
Rave on Buddy Holly
P.S. I don’t know what it is with talented musicians and plane crashes, but Buddy Holly certainly wasn’t the first. See also Otis Redding, The Bar Kays & Lynyrd Skynyrd. All jokes aside, this is eerily reminiscient of the Spinal Tap curse
