WEST TEXAS BOP

This is an album that I believe was made of masters stored in Norman Petty's vault which was sold as part of his estate. (I do not profit from the sale of this album. However, the recordings I made at Petty's were unreleased and it's good to hear them years later.)

It's true that the intro for my song "Blue Baby" was also used on "That'll Be the Day." It works for both songs and I was recording with the Crickets left behind when Buddy Holly went on tour - and died in that plane crash.

(176) WEST TEXAS WALK OF FAME

This is probably a good place to mention that in September of 1994 Buddy Knox was inducted into the WEST TEXAS WALK OF FAME in Lubbock, joining Buddy Holly and other West Texas Talent like the great song writer Mac Davis, whose songs Elvis Presley loved and recorded.

Also from Lubbock and inducted in the WEST TEXAS WALK OF FAME, amazingly enough, Snuffy Garret, the record producer who while with LIBERTY RECORDS, worked with my friend, and Elvis', Cliff Gleaves. Cliff wrote his own contract with Snuffy.

I don't know what it is about West Texas that makes it the fertile ground for so much musical talent, singing, song-writing, entertainment but maybe it has a lot to do with the area being a lot like the Smokey Mountains where I was raised up and people having to make their own fun!

Click on the title above to go right to the West Texas Walk of Fame website!