Buck Owens
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The budding guitarist/farm laborer/truck driver relocated to Bakersfield
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Al late career return
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1961, Part I
another number written with Harlan Howard
The Big Huerta Passes the Buck
The painting is pretty goofy looking. I don’t know why. Buck used to be pretty goofy onstage. I mean he threw out some great zingers at people that were dancing. He almost sounded like he had a few drinks in him, not sure, don’t need to know, but he was pretty dang funny. I also gave him some flowers just to gussy him up.
From Bobdylan.com: A Post-MusiCares Conversation with Bill Flanagan
Back then, though, Buck and Merle were closely associated; two of a kind. They defined the Bakersfield sound. Buck reached out to me in those days, and lifted up my spirits when I was down, I mean really down