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Buddy Holly Family Not Happy With Dixie Chicks' Song
A reference to Buddy Holly on an upcoming Dixie Chicks album isn't setting right with brothers of the 1950s music legend.
In "Lubbock or Leave It," Natalie Maines, a native of this West Texas city, sings: "I hear they hate me now/Just like they hated you./Maybe when I'm dead and gone/I'm gonna get a statue, too."
Holly, whose statue is in downtown Lubbock, was born here and died in a plane crash along with singers Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson in Iowa in 1959.
Holly's older brother, Larry O. Holley, said he doesn't know of anyone in Lubbock who hated his sibling.
"Older people in town thought rock 'n' roll was for kids," Holley said. "But no one hated Buddy."
The song is on the fourth Dixie Chicks album, a May 23 national release titled "Taking the Long Way." The songwriting credit lists all three Chicks — Emily Robison, Martie Maguire and Maines — and Mike Campbell.
Another brother, Travis Holley, said his brother was proud of Lubbock.
"He was loyal to his hometown, his church and his family," he said. "And I never knew of anyone who hated Buddy."
Maines, born and raised in Lubbock, seemed to be embraced by all until March 2003 when she told a concert audience in London the group was "ashamed" President Bush was from Texas. A free-speech debate ensued and radio stations across the country stopped playing the Chicks' music. Some still don't; only one in Lubbock does.
Kathy Best of Front Page Publicity, which handles Chicks' interview requests, said that Maines won't be available anytime soon for interviews.
On the Chicks Web site Maines writes that the song "is not just about Lubbock, but about any small, hypocritical town."
Who hated Buddy Holly? Thats not the way I remember it and I still remember the plane crash that killed him and the Big Bopper and Richie.
On the Chicks Web site Maines writes that the song "is not just about Lubbock, but about any small, hypocritical town."
Let's hear it for true class, everybody!
Saying that Lubbock hated Buddy Holly in the 1950s is like saying Memphis hated Elvis before he died.
What a stupid, arrogant, airheaded bimbo Natalie is!
Buddy Holly had class. That's something Natalie will never have.
To compare herself in any way with Buddy Holly indicates an inflated sense of importance and or talent; neither of which is justified in any way.
Buddy Holly. Whoever hated Buddy Holly? These people truly live in an alternate universe.
Wow, she's working hard to insult and p*** off just about *everyone*, isn't she?
Dixie Chicken.
Unreal. Taking cheap shots at a musical genius (and I don't use the term loosely) who died at 22?
Uh-oh...I hope it's not Heartbreaker Mike Campbell, who is one of my guitar idols.