Buddy Holly Family Not Happy With Dixie Chicks' Song "Lubbock Or Leave It"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194092,00.html

A reference to Buddy Holly on an upcoming Dixie Chicks album isn't setting right with brothers of the 1950s music legend.

In "Lubbock or Leave It," Natalie Maines, a native of this West Texas city, sings: "I hear they hate me now/Just like they hated you./Maybe when I'm dead and gone/I'm gonna get a statue, too."

Holly, whose statue is in downtown Lubbock, was born here and died in a plane crash along with singers Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson in Iowa in 1959.

Holly's older brother, Larry O. Holley, said he doesn't know of anyone in Lubbock who hated his sibling. "Older people in town thought rock 'n' roll was for kids," Holley said. "But no one hated Buddy."

[ShortnFiery]

1. uh, so what's the point? eom

[meegbear]

12. They gotta get a bitchslap in on the Dixie Chicks ...

and any port in a storm.

[ShortnFiery]

15. Yes, but it just proves how small minded they are ...

Instead, they should be flattered such talented artists wrote this song. ;)

[skooooo]

2. wow breaking news from Faux

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[AX10]

3. So the Holly family now "owns" Lubbock Texas?

:shrug:

[TomInTib]

4. Uh.., Larry, how's the old memory these days?

I know a lot of folks from back in the days when Buddy was hot and Lubbock considered him an embarrassment.

Wonder what Fox paid him for that asinine statement.

[kskiska]

18. I've read that.

Lubbock was not at all supportive of Holly and did nothing for him when he was alive. The statue was an afterthought.

[shaniqua6392]

5. God! Leave the Dixie Chicks alone already!

I am so sick of people criticizing them. I thought we had freedom of speech in this country. I think I am going to buy several copies of their new CD and hand them out as gifts. The Chicks have just been way too nice about all of the things that have happened to them. I would never have been so tolerant if I were treated like they have. The Dixie Chicks are awesome in my opinion.

[Marr]

6. I'm afraid I can't speak intelligently about the popularity of Buddy Holly

in Lubbock, Texas in the year 1958- but it's true that people who are on the cutting edge of new things- particularly in the arts- are often hated in their own times and adored after they die. I think that's just sort of common knowledge.

[ComerPerro]

8. And, just like you can't find people who voted for Nixon nowadays

and couldn't find people in the US who used to support Hitler during the 1930's once WWII started,

its probably just as hard now to find people in Buddy Holly's hometown who will admit to hating him

[Dr Fate]

7. "Jungle Music" was meant to be a hateful, racist term.

And folks in the South called Buddy's Bo Diddley sounding stuff "Jungle Music"

In any event- free publicity for the Chicks- so its a good thing.

[biscotti]

9. The family's

complaints do ring hollow. Strange

[KyuzoGator]

10. Yeah, no one hated Holly. No one thought rock was "devil music."

Kindly remove your head from your ass, Larry.

[charlie]

11. Joe Dimaggio came close

to suing Paul Simon for his lyric, but was talked out of it. But he remained perplexed, because he hadn't "gone" anywhere. I suppose it's hard to be disabused of a literalist interpretation when you're the subject.

Larry's forgotten how contentious the matter of rock 'n roll once was. It was "negro jungle music", not fit for tender white ears. I don't imagine it's a stretch to say a good chunk of Lubbock hated Holly at the time for being a rocker.

[Wickerman]

13. Larry may have bought Buddy his first Strat

but he never played Rock n Roll. He is in a Country/Gospel band - seems to be most of what he's played in over the years.

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[TreasonousBastard]

14. Well, it took Lubbock to 1995 to get around...

to putting up the Buddy Holly exhibit when they decided to build up the arts center to help grab tourists. Tearful family all around saying "finally."

Buddy Holly AND Dixie Chicks came from there, eh-- must be something pretty good about the place.

[dipsydoodle]

16. The day the music died was 3rd feb '59

so it only took them took 36 years to acknowledge that.

[Diogenes2]

17. Yeah, Lubbock in the 1950's was a good place

for young, talented people to be inspired to go anyplace else and do anything more exciting than what was going on in Lubbock.