It’s so sad that Buddy Holly only had time to make two albums in his short life, he surely had so much more to give. This is a really good early pop/rock album, although I have to admit that I preferred the first one. That felt like it had more of the iconic Holly sounds that you know and love whereas this one was a little bit less of that and a bit more smooth. Still very good though!

It makes me laugh a little that this is an album listed as Rock, a genre that covers such a wide variety of music it’s incredible. This is old school rock: soft, gentle, playful, swinging. It’s dated but also legendary. Although aware of the day the music died, I don’t know that I’d really thought about it too much before but having listened to this album, I’m starting to get a sense of how much talent really was lost that day. It seems such a shame that Holly only had time for two solo albums.