DAVID BOX - I'VE HAD MY MOMENTS

Although BUDDY HOLLY was as irreplacable as any one in the history of modern music, one young man for a very brief time looked set to at least partially fill the gaping void left behind after the tragedy which reaped Holly from this world in the early days of rock'n'roll, and that rockabilly upstart was named DAVID BOX.

 
In times past I have mentioned David Box in my blogs about Holly and even dedicated a blog to him, so maybe I am repeating myself a bit from last time, but it wont hurt to remind any fair dinkum rock'n'roll and rockabilly fans who read my blog of the incredible but completely overlooked talent of Box, who like Holly, also hailed from Texas, sounded eerily similiar and even more stereophonic than his hero, and as karma would amazingly have it, died an almost identical untimely death in a light plane crash on the 23rd October, 1964.

He was the perfect compromise between ROY ORBISON in a vocal sense and BUDDY HOLLY in an instrumental sense, even if his early death denied him the chance to capture the mastery of those two rock revolutionaries.

I know in the last blog I said to definitely get his compilation called THE DAVID BOX STORY, another recording i would recommend you get if you want to get a piece of some late 50's and early 60`s rootsy rockabilly is a compilation album with an ambigous title called HEP CATS FROM BIG SPRINGS, which features a few Box tunes as well as some other little known rockabilly and rock'n'roll tinged country music straight out of Texas.