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Headcat, the bluesy rockabilly band that featured the late Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead) along with Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) and Danny B. Harvey (Lonesome Spurs, The Rockats), will be releasing a Buddy Holly tribute album, titled “Headcat Plays Buddy Holly,” on May 15. The effort will be available on CD and red/yellow split colored vinyl. A digital EP with alternate mixes of “Fool’s Paradise,” “Peggy Sue Got Married,” and “Crying, Waiting, Hoping” will be available as well. Pre-orders can be found HERE.

“Headcat Plays Buddy Holly” Track Listing:

01. “Fool’s Paradise”
02. “Tell Me How”
03. “Not Fade Away”
04. “Take Your Time”
05. “Well…All Right”
06. “Learning The Game”
07. “Peggy Sue Got Married”
08. “Crying, Waiting, Hoping”
09. “Love’s Made A Fool Of You”
10. “True Love Ways”
11. “Fool’s Paradise”
12. “Peggy Sue Got Married”
13. “Crying, Waiting, Hoping”

Harvey commented:

“When Lemmy, Slim Jim and I first teamed up to record a Headcat album, we knew it would be filled with songs we cherished and had always dreamed of recording. Since we had the chance to pick any great artist we loved (like Chuck Berry, The Beatles, Carl Perkins etc), it’s a bit funny that nine out of the thirteen songs we recorded for our first record were Buddy Holly songs. To top it off and add the icing to the cake, we also recorded an instrumental version of ‘True Love Ways,’ making it a cool ten Buddy Holly songs.

At the time I was mixing the album, there were many harmony vocal tracks, all done by Lemmy, that I made multiple mixes of every track with different levels of harmony vocals, from no background vocals to all the harmonies I had recorded. This release includes three bonus mixes I made with no background vocals added, stripped down and bare.

I’m so exited this album is coming out, showing how important Buddy Holly was to Lemmy, Slim Jim and I. We all love Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee and Little Richard, but as Lemmy said in his book ‘White Line Fever’, ‘Buddy Holly never did a bad track, as far as I could hear.’ I’m sure that’s why our first album was mainly Buddy Holly songs.”