In December of 1958, Buddy Holly was on vacation with his wife in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas when he met a local radio DJ Waylon Jennings at KDAV and KLLL. The two became fast friends and ...

Holly, a Texas native, was thought to be the next Elvis Presley. Waylon Jennings, also from Texas, gave up his seat on the plane for The Big Bopper. On February 3, 1959, 22-year-old Buddy Holly ...

On this day in 2002, Waylon Jennings passed away in his home. Today, we're remembering the legend with some of his biggest hits.

1959 Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens and Dion played a show as part of their Winter Dance Party tour. Early in the morning of Feb. 3, all but Dion lost their lives in the crash of a small ...

It was supposed to include himself, his guitarist Tommy Alsup and his bass guitarist, a very young Waylon ... Both Holly and Valens have had biopic movies made about their lives; “The Buddy ...

Waylon Jennings. The Deseret News on Feb. 4 reported the “show would go on,” and that other musicians on the Winter Dance Party Tour of 1959 would perform that night. Movies like the “Buddy Holly ...

Country music legend Waylon Jennings was Holly's bass guitarist ... little bits and pieces, a tribute to Buddy on stage. I played his guitar and did excerpts of his songs, because I felt like ...

including the great Buddy Holly, the singer Mac Davis, folk songstress Nanci Griffith, Dixie Chick Natalie Maines, country superstar Waylon Jennings, Jesse "Guitar" Taylor, and Gilmore's friends and ...

Don McLean and Connie Valens tell PEOPLE about their unique experiences on 'The Day the Music Died,' when Buddy Holly, ...

Charles Hardin Holley, or Buddy Holly as he was better known, died tragically in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, aged just 22 along with fellow musicians, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson.