In the 1971 classic "American Pie," Don McLean wrote about "The Day the Music Died" — a.k.a. Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and "The Big Bopper" J.P. Richardson were famously killed in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sixty-three years ago Wednesday, a 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza took flight from a small-town Iowa airport, carrying three pioneers of ...

Country band The Howdies are gearing up to release their debut album Howdies All Around on September 29 via Normaltown/New West Records, and if you’re unfamiliar with the band, here’s some of their ...

Sixty-one years ago Monday, a 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza took flight from a small-town Iowa airport, carrying three pioneers of early American rock ‘n’ roll music. The musicians, Buddy Holly, Ritchie ...

It was bought by a Texan fan who will grant the bike on long-term loan to the Buddy Holly Centre. Buddy Holly’s 1958 Ariel Cyclone The story behind the bike is just as interesting. It seems Buddy and ...

A Neighbors column last fall pleased Gene Prim, Barnesville, Minn., because it featured two of his favorite recording artists: country singer Waylon Jennings and Fargo’s Bobby Vee. “I watched Bobby ...

Before becoming an “outlaw” of country music, Jennings was in Buddy Holly’s band, The Crickets. And he gave up a seat on the plane which crashed and killed Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. “the Big Bopper” ...

Although February is the shortest calendar month of the year, it has served as one of the most significant months for momentous musical events — both happy and sad. On Feb. 3, 1959, a plane crash near ...

Country music, no matter how outlaw-flavored, was still in its own world apart from rock ‘n’ roll in the mid-1960s. Although the two genres would blend much more tangibly in the years to follow, the ...

The story of Fargo’s Bobby Vee is well known. It’s the story of how this 15-year-old guy hastily formed a band out of fellow Fargo high schoolers and performed to fill in for superstars Buddy Holly, ...

Waylon Jennings would've turned 79 years old on June 15, 2016. There's no much that hasn't been written a thousand times about the country music legend and star of the "outlaw" movement of the 1970s ...