Buddy Holly birthday bash w/ Cale & the 45s (10:15), West Texas Exiles ft. Colin Gilmore, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Kimmie Rhodes, Rosie Flores, Patricia Vonne, BettySoo, Graham Weber, Scott Strickland, Julian Neel, Tammy Lynn Gilmore (8:00), Mason & the Gin Line (7:00)

Despite Buddy Holly perishing in a 1959 plane crash at the humanly nascent, but musically mature age of 22, his percussionist Jerry Ivan Allison kept their big beat alive an additional six decades. Passing Aug. 22, the Hillsboro native stood tall and Texan even when this stringer met him in 2004 – as formidable as Holly’s older cowboy sibs at one of his Lubbock birthday bashes. Rave on about the skinny, horn-rimmed Strat-wielder who spearheaded rock & roll with West Texas royalty Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Kimmie Rhodes, Austin sovereigns Rosie Flores, BettySoo, and Graham Weber, and full sets from panhandlers Mason & the Gin Line and homegrown honky-tonkers Cale & the 45s. Oh boy! – Raoul Hernandez