Buddy Holly and Jim Croce ( for me ) are two of those singers/songwriters who really makes me wonder how much more great music would have been written had they lived longer ...
Many of the later great performers have acknowledged Buddy Holly’s influence on their music. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, and Elton John come to mind.
It has been said that the Beatles took their name as inspiration from Buddy Holly and the Crickets. In other words, the Beatles chose their band name partly in homage to Buddy Holly’s own band.
I met Jim Croce once quite by chance - in a shoe store no less.
Listen to the guitar break in “Peggy Sue”. Nothing quite like it before. How much of the rock and roll to come can be heard in those twenty seconds....