Country Music’s Finest Releasing Buddy Holly Tribute

Pictured L-R: [top] Merle Haggard, Helen Cornelius, Jimmy Fortune,
[bottom] Sonny Curtis, David Frizzell, T. Graham Brown

David Frizzell has gathered a cadre of music’s elite for a very special homage to Buddy Holly with The Buddy Holly Country Tribute: Remember Me, set for release on Sept. 7, 2014, (on what would have been Holly’s 78th birthday). The musical collection includes a DVD on the making of the project. The album is a benefit for the Buddy Holly Educational Foundation, a charitable organization focused on musical education and co-founded by Buddy’s widow, Maria Elena Holly.

Joining Frizzell for the 21-track collection are six country music icons: “Grand Ladies of Country Music” singer, Helen Cornelius; GMA (Gospel Music Association) and CMA (Country Music Association) Hall of Famer Jimmy Fortune; CMA award winner T. Graham Brown; a member of multiple Halls of Fame, multi-award winning singer/songwriter Sonny Curtis; and the legendary, Grammy award winner Merle Haggard. Incidentally, this project is concurrent with the 50th year milestone in country music for Haggard.

While Buddy has been cited as “the single most influential creative force in early Rock and Roll,” his roots and earliest influences were bluegrass and country music with artists like Hank Snow and Lefty Frizzell. One of the first songs that Buddy learned from his older brothers, although he never recorded it, was Scott Wiseman’s “Remember Me.” Merle starts off this great tribute with his version of “Remember Me.” Jimmy Fortune, Helen Cornelius and David Frizzell close out the collection with their version of the same tune. In between is woven a musical tale of the Buddy Holly legacy in song.

“I’m a huge Buddy Holly fan. Crafting this project in his honor has been a very moving experience,” Frizzell says. “Everyone involved felt that we were creating something very, very special.”

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