Buck Owens : the biography / Eileen Sisk.

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sisk, Eileen
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2010], ©2010.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Owens, Buck, > 1929-2006.
Country musicians > United States > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xiv, 385 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.