It's So Easy

Background

John Fogerty, Carl Perkins, Joe Ely, Brian Setzer, Buddy Knox and others were invited to Austin City Limits to perform in a tribute concert or Buddy Holly & the Crickets in December. Directed by Gary Menotti and hosted by Kris Kristoferson, the show was aired by the PBS in the USA on March 8th next year. The tribute concert came out on DVD on September 2004.   

Fogerty performed "It's So Easy", "Cotton Fields" and "Rave On" with The Boneshakers and Bobby King. 

Buddy Holly recorded "It's So Easy" originally with the Crickets in June-August 1958 at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico. The 45 rpm single didn't chart. 

As a young boy, John Fogerty made up his mind that Buddy Holly was one of those people that he was going to follow for his entire career and buy every record. "I had already gotten the first album and a few singles. I still had a paper route in the eighth grade, and getting the papers one day I saw the headline that Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens had died in a plane crash," he recalled in his autobiography (2015).

Personnel

Vocals, guitar: John Fogerty

Vocals: Bobby King

Guitar: Jack Wargo

Bass: Gerald Johnson

Drums: Donald Lindley 

Keboards: Charlie Harrison

The Boneshakers debuted with Fogerty on the Vietnam Vets concert in Washington, DC, on July 4th, 1987. 

Fans' views

"One of the best numbers out of that great PBS program!"

"The begining of this version of the song it's so easy by Buddy Holly has a similer begining to the version of Twist and Shout that Beatles did I just happened to notice that and I never knew John Fogerty was influenced in music by Buddy Holly that's an interesting fact about him I didn't know before."

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