Tommy Allsup lived nearly 58 additional years because he lost a coin flip. Allsup, a musician and producer who is in the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, died Wednesday. He was 85. The death was confirmed ...

Ninety-four years ago today, the prolific studio guitarist and producer who worked with a long list of legends was born in Oklahoma.

Editor’s Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker, Librarian Emeritus, Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached [email protected]. Today’s article about Buddy Holly and the ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Tommy Allsup, a guitarist best known for losing a coin toss that kept him off a plane that later crashed and killed rock 'n' roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "Big Bopper" ...

Tommy Allsup’s first memory of that Midwest rock ‘n’ roll tour 50 years ago was the temperature. “It was cold,” he recalled in a telephone interview from his home in Crowell, Texas. “Those old buses ...

The microphone Buddy Holly sang into on "The Day the Music Died" is back in Clear Lake — this time for good. Austin Allsup, son of the late Tommy Allsup, the guitarist with Holly's band on the Winter ...

CLEAR LAKE — Tommy Allsup, Carl Bunch and Bob Hale can all remember where they were when they found out Buddy Holly, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and Ritchie Valens were killed in a plane crash on ...