SPRINGFIELD – Legendary country artist Waylon Jennings said he was always haunted by his final conversation with Buddy Holly.
The young musicians were in Clear Lake, Iowa, on Feb. 2, 1959, amid a 24-day, 24-show winter tour – a gauntlet through a succession of frigid Northwestern towns. A day earlier, drummer Carl Bunch had bailed out of the tour with frostbitten feet. Holly, tired of dealing with their cold, broken-down bus, chartered a four-seat…
