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Buck Owens (Hardcover)
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Buck Owens was the top-selling country act of the 1960s, with 21
number-one hits and 35 consecutive top-ten hits, a total surpassed
only by the Beatles. Inventor of the Bakersfield sound, he was
hugely popular not only with country fans, but rock fans too. The
Beatles covered his songs, Gram Parsons idolized him, the Grateful
Dead loved him. At least five marriages, several TV shows, and a
publishing and media empire followed. And a number of current
country stars, ranging from Dwight Yoakam to Marty Stuart, owe
their sound to him. Yet never before has there been a book about
Buck Owens. And the man that emerges from its pages is the polar
opposite of the aw-shucks image he cultivated on Hee-Haw . A
tight-fisted control freak with an outsized appetite for sex, Owens
could be ruthlessly cruel at one moment and as slippery as a snake
the next. Buck Owens chronicles his rise from poverty as son of a
sharecropper to one of the nation's best-loved entertainers, worth
at least $100 million when he died. It is authoritative: it counts
among its myriad sources five Buckaroos, the producer of Hee Haw ,
the former president of Capitol Nashville, numerous country
singers, relatives, wives, lovers, and employees. This biography
fully reveals, for the first time, not only one of country's
biggest stars, but perhaps its biggest son of a bitch.
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