Level: 2
Tuning: Standard

In 1957 Buddy Holly and the Crickets recorded several tunes at Tinker Air Force Base In Oklahoma City, and "Maybe Baby" was the standout tune from that session. Mrs. Holly (Buddy's mom) had the initial idea for the tune and wrote part of it, and Buddy and the Crickets finished it. The rocker with a drumbeat inspired by Little Richard's "Lucille" went to #17 on the US pop charts, and it was a top ten hit on the R&B charts and in Canada and the UK, where Buddy was soon to tour. Future rockers (then teenaged) Keith Richards, Paul McCartney, Elton John and other Brits saw Buddy live in England, or saw and heard his English TV and radio broadcasts, and have all testified how much they were inspired by Buddy's performances. This key-of-C version of "Maybe Baby" includes some strumming but is mostly fingerpicked in the Travis style, with an alternating thumb-bass... but with a straight-eighths feel rather than a country shuffle.