Retracing the life of Buck Owens - from his poverty-stricken youth as the son of a sharecropper to one of the nation's best-loved and wealthiest entertainers - this biography pays tribute to the man and his music by revealing his genius, his warmth, his humour, his vulnerabilities, and his flaws. It[...]
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 Sound, he was hugely popular not only with country fans but with rock fans too. The Beatles covered his songs; Gram Parsons idolized him; the Gr[...]