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Buck Owens & The Buckaroos<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Alvis Edgar Owens Jr. was born in 1929 outside\nSherman, Texas, the son of a sharecropper. With opportunities scarce during the\nDepression, the family moved to Arizona when he was 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He dropped out of school at age 13 to haul produce\nand harvest crops, and by 16 he was playing music in taverns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owens started recording in the mid-1950s, but\ngained little success until 1963 with “Act Naturally,” his first No.\n1 single.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His career was one of the most phenomenal in\ncountry music, with a string of more than 20 No. 1 records, most released from\nthe mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were recorded with a honky-tonk twang that\ncame to be known throughout California as the “Bakersfield Sound,”\nnamed for the town 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Los Angeles that Owens\ncalled home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When people start looking back on his career,\nthey are going to be surprised by the number of things he did first,” said\nguitarist Roy Clark, who worked with Owens on “Hee Haw.” “He left\na great legacy in country music.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owens, elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in\n1996, was modest when describing his aspirations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’d like to be remembered as a guy that came\nalong and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to\ndo the job, wrote a few songs and had a hell of a time,” he said in 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An incredible performer, Owens played a red, white and blue guitar with fireball fervor. He and the Buckaroos wore flashy rhinestone suits in an era when flash was as important to country music as fiddles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among his biggest hits were “Together\nAgain” (also recorded by Emmylou Harris), “I’ve Got a Tiger by the\nTail,” “Love’s Gonna Live Here,” “My Heart Skips a\nBeat” and “Waitin’ in Your Welfare Line.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he was the answer to this music trivia\nquestion: What country star had a hit record that was later done by the\nBeatles? “Those guys were phenomenal,” Owens once said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ringo Starr recorded “Act Naturally”\ntwice, singing lead on the Beatles’ 1965 version and recording it as a duet\nwith Owens in 1989. The song, by Johnny Russell and Voni Morrison, tells of a\npoor soul who foresees a movie career playing “a man who’s sad and lonely,\nand all I gotta do is act naturally. … Might win an Oscar, you can never\ntell.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to music, Owens had a highly visible TV career as co-host of “Hee Haw” from 1969 to 1986. With Clark, he led viewers through a potpourri of country music and hayseed humor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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American music<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Owens himself could be rebellious, choosing among\nother things to label what he did “American music” rather than\ncountry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I took a little heat,” he once said.\n“People asked me, `Isn’t country music good enough for you?’ “<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also criticized the syrupy arrangements of some\ncountry singers, saying “assembly-line, robot music turns me off.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After his string of hits, Owens stayed away from the recording scene for a decade, returning in 1988 to record another No. 1 record, “Streets of Bakersfield,” with Dwight Yoakam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Top Ten Buck Owens songs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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With his crisp, stylized vocals and crackling\nbackup from The Buckaroos, Buck Owens put a strong stamp on any song he\ntackled. Don Rich was his right hand man who could sing and play his Fender\nTelecaster like no other. Buck Owens was also a great guitar player who started\nout as a studio musician in the 50\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foolin\u2019 Around<\/strong> (1961): Great track from Buck Owens first release\nin 1961.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I Don’t Care<\/strong> (Just as Long as You Love Me) (1964): Buck \nand the Buckaroos have a good time with this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hello Trouble<\/strong> (1964): Not Buck’s song originally but an album\ntrack that captures his rollicking \u2013with The Buckaroos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together Again<\/strong> (1964): Buck Owens takes us to a tough place with\nthis somber song of love and lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail<\/strong> (1965): Like Act Naturally, a\ncandidate for the song you’d pick if you had just one to define the Buck Owens\nsound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buckaroo<\/strong> (by The Buckaroos, 1965): For the boys in the\nband; this track always brings me back to a simpler time and a country\ninstrumental at its best. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who’s Gonna Mow Your Grass<\/strong> (1969): Anyone who thinks Owens\nis musically one-dimensional hasn’t heard this adventurous hit, on which he\nnimbly adapted the rock guitar textures of the era to country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I Wouldn’t Live in New York City (If They Gave Me\nthe Whole Dang Town)<\/strong> (1970):\nA mission statement for his country constituency, and funny besides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Streets of Bakersfield<\/strong> (duet with Dwight Yoakam, 1988):\nHow great was it to hear classic Buck on the radio again in ’88?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under Your Spell Again<\/strong> (1968): Great shuffle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Live at Carnegie Hall<\/a>
March 26th, 1966<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The boy\u2019s that make up The Buckaroos
(original members of the Buckaroos in the 60\u2019s):<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Don Rich, Lead guitar, fiddle, harmonies.
<\/strong>One of the greatest guitar players of my lifetime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don Rich<\/a> used primarily Fender guitars and amplifiers In the early days, Rich would play Owens’ 1951 Fender Telecaster<\/a> through a Fender Bassman<\/a> amplifier. In 1964, Fender gave Owens an endorsement deal and the band gained instruments. Rich received a Telecaster that had both its body and headstock finished in champagne metal flake in addition to having checkerboard binding on both sides of the guitar’s body. The band received other Fender amplifiers as well, and so Rich also played through a Twin Reverb<\/a> amplifier. At some point Don had a 1 off Tele-ish Red Mosrite that is now in possession of the Owens estate. The “champagne metal flake” finish was rough because it contained crushed glass. Not sure if Don and Roy Nichols played these guitars close to fretlessness or if Semie or Moles deliberately ground down the frets for “speed”. Buck’s “51” Tele which is no longer on Display at the Crystal Palace showed significant signs of being artist and not luthier maintained; for example pieces of paper under strings at the nut in slots that were slotted to deep. Owens and Rich received new guitars in 1966, a pair of Silver Flake Telecasters that were double bound in plain black. Also around 1966, Owens had Bakersfield guitar repairman\/technic Gene Moles finish another set of guitars in Red White and Blue. Fender would also give Rich a Gold Sparkle Tele in the late 1960s that was bound in plain black. It had no finish on the headstock. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fender’s deal with most of their\nartists was that they would exchange their instruments for new ones every seven\nyears, or so. Owens refused to return the instruments given to them by Fender,\nso Fender stopped giving them instruments. Gibson<\/a> picked up on this and in the\nearly 1970s they struck up a deal with Owens. Rich received an ES-335<\/a> as well as a Les Paul<\/a> Professional model. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owens and Rich would later go\nback to playing their red, white and blue Telecasters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019s harmonies were second to\nnone as far as I\u2019m concerned and Buck was thankful he found Don.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 17, 1974, after finishing work at Owens’\nBakersfield studio, Rich was killed in a motorcycle accident. He had been en\nroute to join his family for vacation on the central coast of California. For\nunknown reasons, his motorcycle hit a center divider on northbound Highway 1 at\nYerba Buena Road in Morro Bay. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the then\nSierra Vista Hospital in San Luis Obispo at 10:55  that evening, 50\nminutes after the incident was reported. California Highway Patrol officials\nstated that there were no skid marks and no apparent mechanical problems.\nReports indicated that Owens had pleaded with Rich not to take his motorcycle\nthat day and had been pleading with him for years to quit riding. Owens was\ndevastated by Rich’s death and did not discuss it in interviews for years. In a\nlate 1990s interview, Owens said, “He was like a brother, a son, and a\nbest friend. Something I never said before, maybe I couldn’t, but I think my\nmusic life ended when he died. Oh yeah, I carried on and I existed, but the\nreal joy and love, the real lightning and thunder is gone forever.” Don\nwas 32 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doyle Holly, Bass
\n<\/strong>Holly was\nplaying with Joe Maphis in 1963 when he was asked by Don Rich to fill in as\nbassist for the Buckaroos. The spot became his permanently after Merle Haggard\nleft the group, and the Buckaroos began their most creative and successful\nperiod, from 1963 to 1971. The group had more than 30 singles in the country\nmusic top 40 in that time, of which more than half went to No. 1. “Act\nNaturally,” a No. 1 single for the Buckaroos in 1963, was covered by The\nBeatles on their 1965 album Help! Other hits included “I’ve Got A Tiger By\nThe Tail,” “Together Again,” and “Love’s Gonna Live\nHere,” which occupied the top position on the country chart for 17 weeks\nnear the end of 1963. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Buckaroos recorded a live album, Carnegie Hall\nConcert in 1966, which Holly said was his favorite recording as a Buckaroo. At\nthe time, it was only the second album recorded at Carnegie Hall by a country\nmusic group, and it is widely regarded as one of the best live albums in\ncountry music history. The fans showed up at the Carnegie Hall Concert in New\nYork City in their tuxedos and evening gowns. The concert had been oversold and\nthe venue was packed with fans, many sitting in the aisles. During the Carnegie\nHall concert, the Buckaroos returned a favor to The Beatles and played\n“Twist and Shout” while wearing Beatles wigs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holly and the Buckaroos toured widely in North\nAmerica and Europe in the 1960s. During the band’s peak of popularity in the\nmid to late 1960s, it seemed like everyone was a Buckaroos fan including the\nBeatles, who, it is said, had a standing order for all new Buck Owens and the\nBuckaroos records to be forwarded to them in England. While on tour in London\nin 1969, Holly, Owens and Don Rich met up John Lennon and Ringo Starr. Holly\nrecorded seven albums with The Buckaroos from 1968-1970 without Buck Owens, all\nof which were chart topping records. The Buckaroos albums contained\ninstrumentals along with Holly and Don Rich sharing the role of lead vocalists,\neach having solo songs on every album. The band won a number of awards,\nincluding Grammys and CMAs (Country Music Awards). While Holly was with The\nBuckaroos they were nominated as “Band Of The Year” seven consecutive\nyears from the Academy of Country Music from 1965 to 1971, winning the award\nfour years in a row from 1965-1968. They were also nominated as\n“Instrumental Group of the Year” for five consecutive years from\n1967-1971 by the Country Music Awards, winning twice in 1967 and 1968. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1968, Buck Owens and the Buckaroos recorded a\nlive album when they performed at the White House for President Lyndon Johnson.\nThey served as the house band for the American television variety show Hee Haw,\nand for Owens’ syndicated television show, Buck Owens Ranch House, from 1966 to\n1972. Holly was nominated several times as “Bass Player of the Year” award\nfrom the Academy of Country Music, and he received the award in 1970. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Brumley, Pedal Steel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Owens from 1963 until 1969, Brumley was\nfeatured on recordings including “Act Naturally”, “I’ve Got a\nTiger By the Tail” and “Together Again”. His performance on\n“Together Again” has been considered “one of the finest steel\nguitar solos in the history of country music”, as described in an obituary\nby Country Music Television. His unique steel guitar sound was known as\n“The Brumley Touch” and he was recognized by the Academy of Country\nMusic as the top steel guitarist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rick Nelson lured Brumley to play on his album In\nConcert at the Troubadour, 1969, accepting on a commitment that he would only\ndo four shows with Nelson, but ended up performing with him for a decade. In a\n2005 interview, Brumley called it “a godsend being asked to join Rick’s\nband, and I still think “Garden Party” was a highlight of my\nrecording career”.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He spent three years with Chris Hillman and The\nDesert Rose Band during the early 1990s. He also performed or recorded with\nartists including Glen Campbell, Guthrie Thomas, Merle Haggard, Dwight Yoakam,\nChris Isaak, Waylon Jennings, Martina McBride, Reba McEntire, Ray Price and Rod\nStewart. Brumley was inducted into the Texas Steel Guitar Hall of Fame, the\nInternational Steel Guitar Hall of Fame, and the Missouri Country Music Hall of\nFame. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brumley died at age 73 on February 3, 2009, at\nNortheast Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, a little more than a week\nafter experiencing a heart attack. He was survived by his wife of 48 years,\nRolene, two sons, a daughter, six grandchildren and a great-grandson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willie Cantu, Drums<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally from Corpus Christi Texas, one of the\nmost defining moments in Willie Cantu\u2019s music career was at the young age of 17\nwhen he became an original member of the Buckaroos led by Buck Owens in the\n1960\u2019s. During the three and a half years Willie performed and recorded with\nBuck Owens, the band earned numerous awards that included Grammys and CMA\u2019s. In\n1966, Buck Owens and the Buckaroos were only the second country act to have\nappeared at Carnegie Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willie has always been an avid fan of jazz and jazz\ndrumming. During a visit on tour with Buck, Willie had the rare privilege to\nmeet and hang with the great Tony Williams as well as many other jazz greats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After leaving Buck in late 1967, Willie married a\ncanadian moved to Toronto were he got more involved in performing in jazz\ngroups like the Pharoah Sanders Quartet. Shortly thereafter, Willie moved to\nSan Francisco were he continued his education in all things percussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He became the house drummer at the Nashville Palace from 1989 to it\u2019s closing in 2005.\u00a0 Willie continues to teach privately and perform locally in Nashville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buck and Dwwight Yoakam<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Dwwight and Buck<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Buck Owens shaped sound of country <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Buck Owens, arguably as much as any artist, built\nthe musical foundations for modern country music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was as big a star as country produced in the\n’60s, racking up 20 No. 1 hits and 14 other top 10 records. It was Owens’ hit\nAct Naturally that became Ringo Starr’s Beatles showcase, and Ray Charles\ncovered the country star’s classics Cryin’ Time and Together Again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Powered by the crisp guitar licks of the late Don\nRich and the driving rhythms of backing band The Buckaroos, Owens’ hits jumped\nout of the radio, contrasting with the strings-laden Nashville productions of\nthe era. Owens was the driving force in establishing his home base,\nBakersfield, as the only serious modern rival to Nashville’s grip on country\nmusic, as he, prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Merle Haggard, Wynn Stewart and Tommy Collins saturated\nradio airwaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Owens cooled off on the charts by 1974,\ncutting such novelties as On the Cover of the Music City News, Monsters’\nHoliday and You Ain’t Gonna Have Ol’ Buck to Kick Around No More, a parallel\ncareer made him even more widely known to the American public at large: He\nco-hosted the country comedy series Hee Haw from 1969 to 1986. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That role unfairly pigeonholed him in many people’s\neyes, but his musical reputation was restored in 1988 when a duet with then-hot\nnew star Dwight Yoakam, Streets of Bakersfield, became Owens’ first No. 1 hit\nin 16 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yoakam was an avid Owens booster (“I will\ncherish forever the musical moments he graciously shared with me during his\nlife,” Yoakam told the Associated Press) and helped fire him up to take\none last whack at the country charts in 1989, when he had minor hits with Hot\nDog, a rockabilly tune he had cut as Corky Jones in the ’50s, and a duet on Act\nNaturally with, fittingly, Ringo Starr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not that he needed the royalties \u2014 Owens was\nsuccessful in real estate and radio. In recent years, Owens played regular gigs\nat his Crystal Palace club in Bakersfield, the last one Friday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1965, Owens caused a stir by pledging in the\nMusic City News, “I shall sing no song that is not a country song.” A\nmonth later, he released an album that included a cover of Chuck Berry’s\nMemphis, and in 1969 he had a hit with Berry’s Johnny B. Goode and the\ndecidedly folk-rocking Who’s Gonna Mow Your Grass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But he wasn’t contradicting himself: Owens was one of those rare musicians whose style was so distinctive and definitive that everything he recorded became a Buck Owens song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christmas\nwith Buck Owens and his Buckaroos<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I have to say a few words about my favourite\nChristmas album of all time. The album is called \u201cChristmas with Buck Owens and\nhis Buckaroos\u201d My parents bought this album in the late sixties and we played\nit every Christmas. I purchased the original album at a record kiosk at the\nStittesville Flea market in 1988 and I paid up for it. I also purchased the CD\nversion at some point, in order to save my album. Every time I play this\nrecord, it brings me back to the mid 60\u2019s at home with my mom , dad, brothers\n& sisters. This is just a classic Christmas record that has been part of my\nDNA since the mid 60\u2019s and continues to touch & influence me, all these\nyears later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Track listing:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Side one<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.      “Santa Looked\na Lot Like Daddy” (Buck Owens, Don Rich) \u2013 2:15<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.      “Blue\nChristmas Lights” (Owens, Red Simpson) \u2013 2:42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.      “Christmas\nAin’t Christmas Dear Without You” (Owens, Simpson) \u2013 2:21<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.      “Jingle\nBells” (James Pierpont) \u2013 2:17 (instrumental)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.      “All I Want\nfor Christmas Dear Is You” (Owens, Rich) \u2013 2:14<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.      “Santa’s\nGonna Come in a Stagecoach” (Rich, Simpson) \u2013 2:02<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Side two<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.      “Christmas\nTime’s A Comin'” (Owens, Simpson) \u2013 1:53<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.      “Blue\nChristmas Tree” (Eddie Miller, Bob Morris) \u2013 2:30<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.      “Here Comes\nSanta Claus Again” (Owens, Simpson) \u2013 2:08<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.      “Christmas Morning”\n(Owens, Rich) \u2013 1:40 (instrumental)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.      “It’s\nChristmas Time for Everyone But Me” (Dixie Dean, Ray King) \u2013 2:15<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Because It’s Christmas Time” (Owens, Simpson) \u2013 2:11<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buck underwent throat cancer surgery in 1993 and\nwas hospitalized with pneumonia in January 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll be forever linked to this great music and\nwicked band as long as I live. Thanks Buck Owens and The Buckaroos for all the\ngreat tracks over the years and you\u2019ll continue to inspire new musicians and\nwriters for decades to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buck passed away on March 25, 2006, at the age of\n76. Rest In Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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