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Buck 'Em! - The Autobiography of Buck Owens (Paperback, Reprint)
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Buck 'Em! - The Autobiography of Buck Owens (Paperback, Reprint)
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Discovery Miles 5 320
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Born in Texas and raised in Arizona Buck Owens eventually found his
way to Bakersfield California. Unlike the vast majority of country
singers songwriters and musicians who made their fortunes working
and living in Nashville the often rebellious and always independent
Owens chose to create his own brand of country music some 2 000
miles away from Music City a racking up a remarkable 21 number-one
hits along the way. In the process he helped give birth to a new
country sound and did more than any other individual to establish
Bakersfield as a country music center.THIn the latter half of the
1990s Buck began working on his autobiography. Over the next few
years he talked into the microphone of a cassette tape machine for
nearly one hundred hours recording the story of his life. With his
near-photographic memory Buck recalled everything from his early
days wearing hand-me-down clothes in Texas to his glory years as
the biggest country star of the 1960s; from his legendary Carnegie
Hall concert to his multiple failed marriages; from his hilarious
exploits on the road to the tragic loss of his musical partner and
best friend Don Rich; from his days as the host of a local TV show
in Tacoma Washington to his co-hosting the network television show
EHee HawE; and from his comeback hit Streets of Bakersfield to his
induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.THIn these pages Buck
also shows his astute business acumen having been among the first
country artists to create his own music publishing company. He also
tells of negotiating the return of all of his Capitol master
recordings his acquisition of numerous radio stations and of his
conceiving and building the Crystal Palace one of the most
venerated musical venues in the country.
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