Owens, Buck

Owens, Buck
▪ 2007
Alvis Edgar Owens 
      American singer-songwriter-guitarist (b. Aug. 12, 1929, Sherman, Texas—d. March 25, 2006, Bakersfield, Calif.), helped popularize the “Bakersfield sound,” which reinvigorated the hard-edged honky-tonk tradition in country and western music in the 1960s at a time when country music's establishment in Nashville was producing hits that were “sweetened” with lush string arrangements. In the process, he produced some 20 number one country hits and arguably helped create country rock. Yet for all of his groundbreaking musical accomplishments, he was perhaps better remembered as the cohost (with fellow musician Roy Clark) of Hee-Haw, an immensely popular cornball country-and-western television variety show (1969–86), to which he contributed increasingly less music and more comedy. Owens (who borrowed his nickname, “Buck,” from a favourite mule) took up music in his early teens to avoid a life spent in cotton and cornfields. Eventually, he made his way to the oil boomtown of Bakersfield, where, playing his signature Telecaster electric guitar loud enough to keep the bar crowds dancing, he and his band, the Buckaroos, and singer-songwriter Merle Haggard (who once played bass in Owens's band), forged a rockabilly-influenced alternative to mainstream country music. Owens's biggest hits included “Act Naturally”—a hit for him in 1963 and in 1965 for the Beatles, whose Ringo Starr remade the song with Owens in 1989—”My Heart Skips a Beat” (1964), “Together Again,” (1964), “I've Got a Tiger by the Tail” (1965), and “Waitin' in Your Welfare Line” (1966). Though the hits began to evaporate for Owens in the 1970s, his wealth continued to grow through a series of shrewd media investments. The night before his death, Owens performed at the Crystal Palace, his restaurant and nightclub in Bakersfield. In April 2006 the first of his three wives, Bonnie Owens, a country singer in her own right (who married Haggard after her divorce from Owens) also died.

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