Buddy Holly - Down the Line: The Rarities (Dig) (Slip)
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Music CD Cover Artist: Buddy Holly Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Unknown) CD Release Date: 2009-01-27 Music Label: Geffen Records Soundtracks: Music CD 1
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Free Music Review: Buddy Holly Odds and Ends
Hit: 3 Stars
This is a collection of home recordings, demos and outtakes by the late, great Buddy Holly, issued in time to capitalize on the 50th anniversary of the singer's tragic death. While Holly's die-hard fans will consider this an essential purchase, the more casual fan will do better to purchase one of several greatest hits packages available on CD.
Most of these tracks have been available before, but have not previously been issued on CD, except on bootlegs. Back in 1979, to take advantage of the renewed interest in Holly's music after the 1978 biopic, a boxed set of LPs was released in England that included every known recording, including the roughest of demos, live recordings, and outtakes. Hard core fans and collectors were overjoyed, but reportedly the Holley (yes, that's the original and correct spelling) family and Buddy's widow were less than thrilled by the poor quality of some of the tracks. Since that time, relatively little of Holly's early recordings and demos has been available. As a result, a small but lucrative industry developed for bootlegs of the unavailable material.
This set will serve to fill that gap, for most fans. The sound quality is much improved; presumably modern remastering and noise reduction have been utilized where possible. Some of the tracks have had instrumentation removed that was overdubbed in the 1960s to make them sound both more contemporary and commercial. As a result, one finally has the opportunity on these songs to hear the Crickets more clearly, including Holly's talents as a guitarist. Holly's final recordings, demos that were recorded in the kitchen of his Greenwich Village apartment shortly before he left on his final, fatal tour, are presented here without overdubs, and are probably the highlight of this package.