“Commemorating the 50th anniversary of 22-year-old Buddy Holly’s death in a plane crash, this 60-track anthology offers monster hits and raw early versions from rock’s hiccup-voiced auteur. Holly’s "That’ll Be the Day" offers DIY Elvis swagger, and his soothing single "Words of Love" features not only one of rock’s earliest overdubbed harmony vocals but also […]”
“There's no question Buddy Holly deserves the big reissue treatment. For less than two years during the late 1950s, he helped revolutionize rock'n'roll with his hiccupping vocal style, inventive arrangements, tenderly exuberant songwriting, and gut-wringing guitar-slinging. He has been exalted in the dead-rock-star pantheon and overly romanticized in the process, but his music still encourages star”
