Artist: Buck Owens
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #70 July-August 2007
Buck Owens – The Warner Bros. Recordings
Buck was always the first to put down his Warners output, but you almost have to hear it all in one place to comprehend how oppressively lackluster it really was. Reeling from the death of his friend and collaborator Don Rich, verging on brain-dead from too many seasons of “Hee Haw”, and starting to fade [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Buck Owens – “I hope that they see me as absolutely honest”
Editor’s note: Film producer Laura McCorkindale interviewed Buck Owens in September 2005 and January 2006 at his home in Bakersfield, California, and at his Crystal Palace nightclub. Other than a mid-March phone interview with a Long Island radio station, these are acknowledged by Owens’ family and management to be the last interviews that Buck granted. [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Buck Owens: 1929 to 2006
To the country intelligentsia, Buck Owens’ joyous iconoclasm made him a pivotal figure. His twangy, streamlined Bakersfield honky-tonk gave him 26 top-10 hits on the Billboard country chart; 21 of them went to #1, including 15 between 1963 and 1967. Not surprisingly, the masses viewed him mainly as a denizen of the fictional Kornfield County [...]
Screen Door - Last Page Essay from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Dwight & Buck: Bakersfield Bound
Dwight Yoakam’s personal friendship with Buck Owens began Wednesday, September 23, 1987. Yoakam was in Bakersfield to play the Kern County Fair that night, and Reprise Records arranged a meeting at Buck’s offices. That night, Buck surprised everyone by appearing onstage with Yoakam. Their 1988 hit duet “Streets Of Bakersfield” came a year later. “He [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #56 March-April 2005
Buck Owens & His Buckaroos – Bridge Over Troubled Water / Ruby & Other Bluegrass Specials
I tend to be an open-minded sort (I’ll answer the door without asking who it is), but I have to admit that I was nervous cracking the shrink-wrap on Buck Owens’ 1970 release Bridge Over Troubled Water, a collection of primarily “contemporary” pop/rock covers by songwriters such as Paul Simon, Donovan and Bob Dylan. As [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #33 May-June 2001
Buck Owens – Young Buck: The Complete Pre-Capitol Recordings Of Buck Owens / Carnegie Hall Concert With Buck Owens & His Buckaroos
Yes, it’s true; the Buck starts here. With this new release in an important new series, the Hall of Fame folks have, for the first time, brought together the rare singles and demos Buck Owens recorded under his own name in the mid-’50s, for the tiny labels Pep, La Brea, and Chesterfield — of which [...]
A Place to be - About a Place from Issue #15 May-June 1998
Owens’ own home: The Crystal Palace has put the Buck back in Buckersfield
A fog machine cranks out billowy clouds, the image of lightning slices across three huge video screens and the sound of thunder rocks the PA system. Then a big, throaty voice bursts in: “And now…the Crystal Palace presents…” A World Wrestling Federation main event? A monster truck rally? Try a Buck Owens concert. It’s 7 [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #14 March-April 1998
Buck Owens – Sings Harlan Howard/Sings Tommy Collins / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos – In Japan! / Your Tender Loving Care / It Takes People Like You To Make People Like Me
Back in the early ’60s, Uncle Glen used to come home late from his chicken-trucking job, the reason he and Aunt Maggie moved to Bakersfield in the first place. Frozen chicken, I think, since Bakersfield was so hot even a truck driver could afford a swimming pool. Anyway, he’d come in just before bedtime wearing [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #1 Fall 1995
Buck Owens – box set
First of all, this is not a history lesson on Buck Owens and the Buckaroos. For that and many other wonderful things, check out the Buck Owens box set on Rhino Records. What follows is merely an attempt to spread the word on what might have been the baddest band of their time. To wit: [...]
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