Waylon Jennings was hired by Holly to play bass for him on the Winter ... “The only reason Buddy went on that tour was because he was broke. Flat broke,” Jennings revealed to Rolling Stone ...

In the 1971 classic "American Pie," Don McLean wrote about "The Day the Music Died" — a.k.a. Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy ... to TMI, Holly planned to bring his band members, Jennings and Tommy ...

MORE: What you need to know about Buddy Holly and ‘The Day The Music Died’ RELATED: What Dr. Bill Bass found in bones of the Big Bopper A young Waylon Jennings, playing bass in Holly’s ...

In December of 1958, Buddy Holly was on vacation with his wife in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas when he met a local radio DJ Waylon Jennings at KDAV and KLLL. The two became fast friends and ...

When country singer and “Outlaw” legend, Waylon Jennings, was still early in his music career, he played in Buddy Holly’s band. And he was even supposed to have a seat on the plane that went ...

Within a year before Holly’s death on February ... re the one that’s a-meant for me “Buddy was the first guy who had confidence in me,” said Jennings in 1999. “Hell, I had as much ...

Sixty-five years ago today (Feb. 3, 1959) was an incredibly tragic day for music fans: It was on that date that Buddy ... Waylon Jennings would have been on the plane as well. Holly first met ...

As music fans may well know, Buddy and Waylon were close friends." Jennings played bass on Holly's final tour. The bike was given to Jennings after Holly died in a plane crash in 1959. Jennings ...

So many sing about “the day that music died” on Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly ... and his bass guitarist, Waylon Jennings, to join. The tour included Valens, Richardson, Dion and the Belmonts ...

On Feb. 3, 1959, a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, took the lives of promising young rock musicians Buddy Holly ... Texas, named Waylon Jennings, who would later become one of the biggest ...

When Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings met at a Tempe nightclub in the 1970s, neither knew it was the beginning of an outlaw country revolution.

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty; Beth Gwinn/Getty Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings In the 1971 classic "American Pie," Don McLean wrote about "The Day the Music Died" — a.k.a. Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, ...