Carl Bunch’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American musician
Was Musician 
Drummer 
From United States of America 
Type Music 
Gender male
Birth 24 November 1939, Big Spring
Death 26 March 2011
(aged 71 years)

Carl Bunch (November 24, 1939 – March 26, 2011) was an American musician.
Carl Bunch was born in Big Spring, Texas and began playing drums as a teenager while recovering from extensive surgery on his right leg. By age seventeen, he was recording with Ronnie Smith and the Poor Boys, in Clovis, New Mexico. Buddy Holly was also recording in Clovis at the same time and was impressed with the young drummer.
Holly invited Bunch, Tommy Allsup, and Waylon Jennings to be his backing band for the “Winter Dance Party” tour in 1959. Holly’s band also backed other acts on the tour, including Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson. When Bunch had to be left behind in Wisconsin, hospitalized for frostbite he experienced after the tour bus heater failed, Holly and Valens took turns in the drum chair playing behind the various acts. On February 3, 1959, Holly, Valens, and Richardson were killed in a plane crash en route to the next tour stop. Bunch rejoined the tour on February 5, in Sioux City, Iowa. Ronnie Smith, Jimmy Clanton and Fabian were also recruited to help fill out the playbill. The tour ended on February 15, 1959, in Springfield, Illinois.
Bunch then enlisted in the United States Army, but eventually he was drawn back to music. After his discharge from the Army, he spent some time playing for the Bob Osburn band, before moving to Nashville to play for Hank Williams, Jr. and Roy Orbison.
Carl Bunch eventually left the music industry and became a minister. He attended Buddy Holly-related events during the 2000s, signing autographs as “The Frostbitten Cricket”. Carl died on March 26, 2011 from diabetes.

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