General Buck Owens appreciation thread!
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I’m talking about Buck Owens.
From some website:
Country music legend Buck Owens was a pioneer of the raw-edged country music that came out of Bakersfield’s honky-tonk bars, known as the Bakersfield Sound.
Born Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. in Sherman, Texas to a poor sharecropper family, he nicknamed himself “Buck” after the family mule. The family relocated to Arizona during the Dust Bowl years, where Owens learned to play guitar and mandolin.
After moving to Bakersfield, California in 1951, he became a regular performer at local clubs and bars, and played guitar on records for other country singers. He formed his own band in 1963, and Buck Owens and the Buckaroos had 21 No. 1 country hit singles during the 1960s, including “Act Naturally,” “Love’s Gonna Live Here,” “Together Again” and “I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail.” The band performed at such venues as Carnegie Hall and the White House. Owens also was a fixture in households across the country as co-host of the long-running television variety show “Hee Haw.”
Owens’ music influenced generations of musicians, from Gram Parsons to Dwight Yoakum, all of whom continue the twangy tradition of the Bakersfield Sound.
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Anyone else grow up watching Hee Haw?
Loved that show as a kid
Loved that show as a kid
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“Buck Owens is an inkblot test. Ask 20 different people, get 20 different Bucks. Whatever else is true (and some of it certainly is), today we’re talking about the one who brought real country music to the world in a time when we desperately needed someone to do that. Sticking to that real deal honky tonk sound from Bakersfield made him a very famous man. Shrewd business practices made him a very rich man. Both of these things made him more than a few enemies.”
“Buck Owens is an inkblot test. Ask 20 different people, get 20 different Bucks. Whatever else is true (and some of it certainly is), today we’re talking about the one who brought real country music to the world in a time when we desperately needed someone to do that. Sticking to that real deal honky tonk sound from Bakersfield made him a very famous man. Shrewd business practices made him a very rich man. Both of these things made him more than a few enemies.”
I used to watch reruns with my Grandma and she would rip women singers to shreds. My favorite memories of her was when she would stand over the wood stove with her Merit Ultra Lights and say in disgust “Ugh, goddamn homely bitch can’t sing.”, although she never said a bad word about Dolly. By god did she hate Anne Murray.
Not a chance in hell, slick.Let’s concentrate all laudatory remarks about the great Buck Owens in this one thread.
Maybe@Wild will want to pin this one for a bit?
Will you reconsider now that it’s Christmas season?
I watched Hee Haw as a kid and was familiar with Owens. Great stuff
