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Buddy Holly and Grandma Moses: Two Unlikely Icons

Buddy Holly and Grandma Moses: Two Unlikely Icons

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September seventh is a fun one because it marks the birthday of a genuine music legend, Buddy Holly, born in nineteen thirty six in Lubbock, Texas. Now stick with me here because this is where the story gets delightfully strange. Buddy Holly, the horn rimmed glasses wearing rock and roll pioneer behind hits like Peggy Sue and That'll Be the Day, packed an astonishing amount of influence into a career that barely lasted two years before his tragic death in a plane crash in February of nineteen fifty nine at just twenty two years old. But on this particular date, we celebrate the beginning rather than the end. Picture Lubbock in the mid nineteen thirties, a dusty West Texas town, and a baby boy arrives who will eventually help invent an entire genre of music. Buddy grew up steeped in country and gospel traditions before falling hard for rhythm and blues, and he blended those influences into something completely new. He and his band, the Crickets, were pumping out chart topping records by his late teens, influencing basically every major rock act that followed, including a little band called the Beatles who literally named themselves as a nod to the Crickets. Holly was also something of a studio pioneer, experimenting with double tracking and overdubbing at a time when most artists were still figuring out which end of the microphone to sing into. He was one of the first rock stars to write his own songs, produce his own records, and generally control his own creative destiny, which set the template for basically every singer songwriter who came after him. Not bad for a kid from Lubbock who wore glasses that would eventually become iconic enough to inspire fashion trends decades later. And speaking of birthdays on this date, we also get to tip our hats to Grandma Moses, the folk artist born Anna Mary Robertson in eighteen sixty in Washington County, New York. Here is a woman who did not even start painting seriously until her late seventies, after arthritis made embroidery too difficult, and she turned into one of America's most beloved folk artists, proving that it is genuinely never too late to become a celebrated icon. She was still painting into her hundred and first year, which honestly puts most of our New Year's resolutions to shame. So on September seventh, we get this wonderful contrast in celebrity history, a rock and roll wunderkind who changed music forever in a tragically short life, and a folk art grandmother who proved that fame and creative brilliance can bloom at absolutely any age. Buddy Holly gave us hiccup vocals and horn rimmed glasses cool, while Grandma Moses gave us proof that your most productive creative years might still be ahead of you even if you are pushing eighty. Both of them, in their wildly different ways, remind us that Lubbock, Texas and rural New York can produce cultural icons just as easily as Hollywood or New York City ever could. Some great Deals https://amzn.to/49SJ3Qs For more check out http://www.quietplease.ai
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