Yet another participant in Lubbock's music history, Jack Neal, died Wednesday afternoon at a local hospice. Neal was born on an undisclosed date in 1934, making him 80 or 81. He had stated online that ...

The late rock 'n' roll champion Charles Hardin (Buddy) Holly first began carving a musical name for himself in Lubbock with an only slightly older teenager named Bobby Jack Neal. They played together ...

"My life has been what you might call an uneventful one, and it seems there is not much of interest to tell,” Buddy Holly once wrote in a high school essay. Still, the young student — born Charles ...