Buck Em! Autobiography Of Buck Owens (Hardcover Book)

Buck 'Em! The Autobiography of Buck Owens is the life story of a country music legend. Born in Texas and raised in Arizona, Buck eventually found his way to Bakersfield, California. Unlike the vast majority ofcountry singers, songwriters, and musicians who made their fortunes wor king 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 – racking up a remarkable twenty-one 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.

In the latter half of the 1990s, Buck began working on his autobiography. Over the next few years, he talkedinto the microphone of a cassette tape machine for nearly one hundred h ours, recording the story of his life.

With his near-photographicmemory, Buck recalled everything from his early days wearing hand-me-do wn clothes in Texas to his glory years as the biggest country star of the 1960s; from his legendary Carnegie Hall concert to his multiple failedmarriages; from his hilarious exploits on the road to the tragic loss o f 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 Hee Haw; and from his comeback hit, “Streets of Bakersfield,” to his induction into the Country Music Hallof Fame.

In these pages, Buck also shows his astute business acu men, having been among the first country artists to create his own musicpublishing company. He also tells of negotiating the return of all of h is Capitol master recordings, his acquisition of numerous radio stations, and of his conceiving and building the Crystal Palace, one of the mostvenerated musical venues in the country.

Buck 'Em! is the fascinating story of the life of country superstar Buck Owens – f rom the back roads of Texas to the streets of Bakersfield.

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