On February 2nd, 1959, Waylon Jennings gave up his seat on an airplane to The Big Bopper, and guitarist Tommy Allsup lost a coin flip to Ritchie Valens for the two remaining seats on Buddy Holly’s chartered plane — which would crash hours later.

It was Bonnie Raitt’s 1970 performance with Mississippi Fred McDowell at the Philadelphia Folk Festival that earned her first recording contract with Warner Brothers.

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