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Buck Owens: The Biography by Eileen Sisk (2010, Hardcover)
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- 9781556527685
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1556527683
ISBN-13
9781556527685
eBay Product ID (ePID)
80543528
Product Key Features
Book Title
Buck Owens : the Biography
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Country & Bluegrass
Publication Year
2010
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
24.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-017642
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Buck was one of the kings of country music but also a complicated man. This biography tells why." - Michael Streissguth, author, Johnny Cash: The Biography, "Buck was one of the kings of country music but also a complicated man. This biography tells why." — Michael Streissguth, author, Johnny Cash: The Biography, "Eileen Sisk's fascinating but unsympathetic bio shreds the veil of secrecy surrounding the brilliant though tormented Owens to reveal a master manipulator with a heart of stone." --John Lomax III, author, Nashville: Music City U.S.A.; Red Desert Sky; and For the Sake of the Song, "[Sisk] has mined the past in a city where others in her trade feared to even shake the timbers." —Bryce Martin, pioneer country music columnist, Bakersfield Californian, "Eileen Sisk's fascinating but unsympathetic bio shreds the veil of secrecy surrounding the brilliant though tormented Owens to reveal a master manipulator with a heart of stone." —John Lomax III, author, Nashville: Music City U.S.A.; Red Desert Sky; and For the Sake of the Song, "Reviewers love the book while hardcore fans find it difficult to learn Owens might have been far less than perfect." --Don Rhodes, veteran music columnist for The Augusta Chronicle and author, SAY IT OUT LOUD!: My Memories of James Brown, Soul Brother No. 1, "Detailed and passionate . . . [Sisk] uncovered so many fascinating facts that most writers would simply pass by or not even try to get because it takes work." --Robert Hilburn, former pop music critic and editor for the Los Angeles Times and author, Corn Flakes with John Lennon and Other Tales from a Rock 'n' Roll Life, "This biography should be required reading for any serious country music fan. Meticulously researched, the revealing saga of one of the genre's most flamboyant stars." —Patsi Bale Cox, author, The Garth Factor: The Career Behind Country's Big Boom; and Nickel Dreams , with Tanya Tucker, "Eileen Sisk captures the real Buck. I knew him. I experienced the weird weaknesses. I witnessed the anger. Eileen is a tremendous writer. She has the guts, she has the 'perfect subject,' and she's overstocked with talent. Her book is dynamite--a masterpiece, a sure-fire winner." --Bill Mack, The Satellite Cowboy, host of theCountry Crossroadsradio and TV shows, "This biography should be required reading for any serious country music fan. Meticulously researched, the revealing saga of one of the genre's most flamboyant stars." --Patsi Bale Cox, author,The Garth Factor: The Career Behind Country's Big Boom; andNickel Dreams, with Tanya Tucker, "Sisk captures the real Buck. I knew him. I experienced the weird weaknesses. I witnessed the anger. [Sisk] is a tremendous writer. She has the guts, she has the 'perfect subject,' and she's overstocked with talent. Her book is dynamite-a masterpiece, a sure-fire winner." -Bill Mack, host of Country Crossroads, "Buck was one of the kings of country music but also a complicated man. This biography tells why." - Michael Streissguth, author, Johnny Cash: The Biography, "Eileen Sisk's fascinating but unsympathetic bio shreds the veil of secrecy surrounding the brilliant though tormented Owens to reveal a master manipulator with a heart of stone." --John Lomax III, author,Nashville: Music City U.S.A.; Red Desert Sky;andFor the Sake of the Song, Detailed and passionate . . . [Sisk] uncovered so many fascinating facts that most writers would simply pass by or not even try to get because it takes work. —Robert Hilburn, former pop music critic and editor for theLos Angeles Timesand author,Corn Flakes with John Lennon and Other Tales from a Rock 'n' Roll Life|9781556527685|, "Reviewers love the book while hardcore fans find it difficult to learn Owens might have been far less than perfect." —Don Rhodes, veteran music columnist for the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and author,SAY IT OUT LOUD!: My Memories of James Brown, Soul Brother No. 1, "Buck was one of the kings of country music but also a complicated man. This biography tells why." -- Michael Streissguth, author,Johnny Cash: The Biography, "Eileen Sisk captures the real Buck. I knew him. I experienced the weird weaknesses. I witnessed the anger. Eileen is a tremendous writer. She has the guts, she has the 'perfect subject,' and she's overstocked with talent. Her book is dynamite—a masterpiece, a sure-fire winner." —Bill Mack, The Satellite Cowboy, host of the Country Crossroads radio and TV shows, "Buck was one of the kings of country music but also a complicated man. This biography tells why." -- Michael Streissguth, author, Johnny Cash: The Biography, "Eileen Sisk's fascinating but unsympathetic bio shreds the veil of secrecy surrounding the brilliant though tormented Owens to reveal a master manipulator with a heart of stone." -John Lomax III, author, Nashville: Music City U.S.A.; Red Desert Sky; and For the Sake of the Song, "This biography should be required reading for any serious country music fan. Meticulously researched, the revealing saga of one of the genre's most flamboyant stars." --Patsi Bale Cox, author, The Garth Factor: The Career Behind Country's Big Boom, "This biography should be required reading for any serious country music fan. Meticulously researched, the revealing saga of one of the genre's most flamboyant stars." -Patsi Bale Cox, author, The Garth Factor: The Career Behind Country's Big Boom, "This biography should be required reading for any serious country music fan. Meticulously researched, the revealing saga of one of the genre's most flamboyant stars." -Patsi Bale Cox, author, The Garth Factor: The Career Behind Country's Big Boom; and Nickel Dreams , with Tanya Tucker, "Sisk captures the real Buck. I knew him. I experienced the weird weaknesses. I witnessed the anger. [Sisk] is a tremendous writer. She has the guts, she has the 'perfect subject,' and she's overstocked with talent. Her book is dynamite--a masterpiece, a sure-fire winner." --Bill Mack, host of Country Crossroads
Dewey Decimal
782.421642092 B
Synopsis
Buck Owens was the top-selling country act of the 1960s, with 21 number-one hits and 35 consecutive top-ten hits, a total surpassed only by the Beatles. Inventor of the Bakersfield sound, he was hugely popular not only with country fans, but rock fans too. The Beatles covered his songs, Gram Parsons idolized him, the Grateful Dead loved him. At least five marriages, several TV shows, and a publishing and media empire followed. And a number of current country stars, ranging from Dwight Yoakam to Marty Stuart, owe their sound to him. Yet never before has there been a book about Buck Owens. And the man that emerges from its pages is the polar opposite of the aw-shucks image he cultivated on Hee-Haw . A tight-fisted control freak with an outsized appetite for sex, Owens could be ruthlessly cruel at one moment and as slippery as a snake the next. Buck Owens chronicles his rise from poverty as son of a sharecropper to one of the nation's best-loved entertainers, worth at least $100 million when he died. It is authoritative: it counts among its myriad sources five Buckaroos, the producer of Hee Haw , the former president of Capitol Nashville, numerous country singers, relatives, wives, lovers, and employees. This biography fully reveals, for the first time, not only one of country's biggest stars, but perhaps its biggest son of a bitch.
LC Classification Number
ML420
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