Buck Owens : the biography / Eileen Sisk.

"Buck Owens was the top-selling country act of the 1960s, with more than thirty top ten singles and fifteen consecutive #1 hits. Inventor of the Bakersfield Soung, he was hugely popular not only with country fans but with rock fans too. The Beatles covered his songs; Gram Parsons idolized him; the G...

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Main Author: Sisk, Eileen
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2010], ©2010.
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:xiv, 385 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Son of a tenant farmer -- Exodus -- Bonnie -- Promised land -- Capitol -- Washington -- Dangerous Don -- Bakersfield redux -- General Jack -- Uncle Dorothy -- "Act naturally" -- Merle and the moose medicine -- Dashing Doyle -- Timid Tom -- Peacemakers -- Dennis Payne -- Firing of Mel King -- Willing Willie -- Road stories -- Buck's pledge -- Baron of Buckersfield -- Phyllis -- Professional jealousy -- Flex bus -- Girl singer -- Buck Owens Ranch -- Carnegie Hall -- Running with the dogs -- James, Charley, and Ray -- If the suit fits -- Studio and the snake -- Jennifer -- Forbidden fruit -- Friends in high places -- Jumpin' Jerry Wiggins -- Stolen glory -- Kris Black -- Run-in with Rolene -- Flying high -- Bucking tradition -- Show must go on -- Jay Dee -- Hee Haw -- Drugs of choice -- Jo McFadden -- Buck changes his tunes -- Ruby and the master of spin -- Death of a buckaroo -- life after Don -- Jana Jae -- No-record deal -- Two goodbyes -- "Three-day" marriage -- 80s -- 90s -- Together again. 
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