Singles + - Buddy Holly

Personnel includes: Buddy Holly (vocals, guitar); Niki Sullivan (guitar); Joe B. Mauldin (bass); Jerry Allison (drums).This collection starts deeper and more interesting than its title would lead one to expect, and for 29 of its 45 songs, it's also wonderfully enjoyable. Assembling all of the Buddy Holly singles and B-sides issued in America and Europe between April of 1956 and September of 1964, it covers Holly's music and career the way the ordinary listener heard it, and pretty much the way that Holly concentrated on it; he only completed two LPs in his lifetime, but he released some 16 singles during the last three years of his life, from early 1956 until early 1959, of which a dozen charted. Those 30 songs provide a step-by-step map of his development as an artist; the dozen or so posthumous releases that followed tell how his name was kept alive (principally in England), in interesting but often awkwardly overdubbed versions of the original recordings. This set treats the first t