Buddy Holly - Down the Line: The Rarities (Dig) (Slip)
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Artist: Buddy HollyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-01-27
Music Label: Geffen Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- My Two-Timin' Woman
- Footprints In the Snow - Buddy & Bob
- Flower Of My Heart* - Buddy & Bob
- Door To My Heart* - Buddy & Bob
- Soft Place In My Heart - Buddy & Bob
- Gotta Get You Near Me Blues - Buddy & Bob
- I Gambled My Heart* - Buddy & Bob
- You And I Are Through - Buddy & Bob
- Down The Line - Buddy & Bob
- Baby, Let's Play House
- Moonlight Baby a/k/a Baby, Won't You Come Out Tonight
- I Guess I Was Just A Fool
- Don't Come Back Knockin'
- Love Me Buddy Holly & The Crickets
- Gone
- Gone (alternate take)
- Have You Ever Been Lonely (alternate take)
- Have You Ever Been Lonely
- Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
- Good Rockin' Tonight
- Rip It Up
- Blue Monday
- Honky Tonk
- Blue Suede Shoes
- Shake Rattle And Roll (partial)
- Bo Diddley
- Ain't Got No Home
- Holly Hop
- Last Night (undubbed)
- Not Fade Away (alternate overdub)
- Peggy Sue (alternate take)
- Oh Boy (undubbed)
- That's My Desire (two false starts plus undubbed master)
- Take Your Time (false start & partially undubbed take)
- Fool's Paradise (alternate take undubbed)
- Fool's Paradise (undubbed master)
- Fool's Paradise (alternate #2 undubbed)
- Think It Over (false start & rehearsal take)
- Think It Over (undubbed alternate)
- Think It Over (undubbed master)
- Love's Made A Fool Of You (undubbed)
- That'll Be The Day (greetings to Bob Thiele)
- That'll Be The Day (greetings to Murray Deutsch)
- That's What They Say (w/fragment)
- What To Do
- Peggy Sue Got Married
- That Makes It Tough
- Crying, Waiting, Hoping
- Learning The Game
- Wait Till The Sun Shines Nellie
- Slippin' And Slidin' (slow version #1)
- Slippin' And Slidin' (slow version #2)
- Slippin' And Slidin' (fast version)
- Buddy & Maria Elena talking in an apartment
- Dearest (fragment)
- Dearest
- Untitled Instrumental (a/k/a Buddy's Guitar/listed as a Tremolo Instrumental")
- Love Is Strange
- Smokey Joe's Café
Music reviews of Down the Line: The Rarities (Dig) (Slip)
Music Review: A Great and Long-Awaited Release
Rating: 5 Stars
The release of the Buddy Holly album "Down the Line: Rarities" is as welcome as it has been long awaited. The 59 tracks on this two disc set span the length of his all-too-brief career--from a 1949 recording of Hank Snow's My Two-Timin' Woman--to January 1959, when the songs collectively known as The Apartment Tapes were recorded.
And what a ten years it was, chronicled through songs that have been carefully remastered through use of the best in digital technology. Never-released performances from Buddy and his friend Bob Montgomery appear in this collection, revealing how deeply bluegrass and country shaped Buddy's musical development. The set of songs known as The Garage Tapes are a highlight as well. Buddy and fellow Crickets J.I. Allison and Joe B. Mauldin fairly tear through an array of cover tunes--Chuck Berry's "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man," Little Richard's "Rip It Up," Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes," and Big Joe Turner's "Shake, Rattle & Roll." In a pre-release interview, J.I. Allison recalled what these recording sessions were like: "Many of the tunes were done just in Buddy's garage, but I remember doing a few of them like `Bo Diddley' and `Brown-Eyed Handsome Man,' way out West at Petty's studio in Clovis, NM. The line-up was Buddy, myself on drums, Sonny Curtis on guitar and Don Guess on bass."
Many of the tracks on "Down the Line: Rarities" were overdubbed in the years following Buddy's death with new backing vocals and instrumentation. Now, for the first time, these overdubs have been removed, restoring the tracks to the sound they had when first recorded by Buddy and his friends. A writer for Reuters got it right in describing the result as a series of "musical revelations." At last, the talents of all who took part in these recordings can be heard and fully appreciated.
For me, and I suspect many others, the centerpiece of this collection will be the set of songs known as The Apartment Tapes. Great care has been given to the digital transfer of these songs, largely recorded as tracks that Buddy sang while playing his acoustic guitar. They sound superb--very much as though Buddy had recorded a set of songs "unplugged" for an intimate gathering of friends. Original songs like "Learning the Game" and "That Makes It Tough" appear alongside excellent covers like "Dearest" and "Love is Strange"--performances that for me recall the depth and flowering of Buddy's talent as present in songs like "Well, Alright" and "Words of Love."
When I bought "Down the Line: Rarities," I sat down and listened to The Apartment Tapes straight through. I was deeply moved when I heard Buddy sing "memories will follow me forever," a line from "That Makes It Tough." I thought of that lyric in light of all the people who have cherished memories of the way his music has touched their lives. And so it seems only fitting as well that with this release, such memories in music as were left to us after Buddy's death will endure, as will an enhanced appreciation for his unique and groundbreaking musical gift.
Description of Down the Line: The Rarities (Dig) (Slip)
February 3, 2009, marks the 50th Anniversary of "The Day The Music Died," the anniversary of the crash of the flight that took the lives of `50s rockers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper. Finally, the vault of rare Buddy Holly tracks will be opened wide for this multi-disc set to be released on 1/27/09. Geffen will release a two CD, 59-song set of rarities that will include a recording by Buddy at age 14 and three more previously unreleased, undubbed recordings with fellow classmate Bob Montgomery. This package, entitled Down The Line/Rarities, will also include both the entire undubbed legendary "Apartment Tapes" and the undubbed "Garage Tapes," recorded with The Crickets in Holly's family garage. The set is rounded out with outtakes and alternates of familiar recordings by Buddy and The Crickets.Pop CDs
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