RIJIMMY
03-30-2006, 08:22 AM
Just heard today that Buck Owens died on 3/25. Its a shame this did not get more publicity, he was a great American musician and created "the" sound of modern country music. Its a shame most people know him as the guy from Hee-Haw.
From CNN.
Owens died Saturday at his home in Bakersfield, California, said family spokesman Jim Shaw, who played keyboards in Owens' band, the Buckaroos. The cause of death was not immediately known. Owens had undergone throat cancer surgery in 1993 and was hospitalized with pneumonia in 1997.
His career was one of the most phenomenal in country music, with a string of more than 20 No. 1 records, most released from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.
They were recorded with a honky-tonk twang that came to be known throughout California as the "Bakersfield Sound," named for the town 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Los Angeles that Owens called home.
From CNN.
Owens died Saturday at his home in Bakersfield, California, said family spokesman Jim Shaw, who played keyboards in Owens' band, the Buckaroos. The cause of death was not immediately known. Owens had undergone throat cancer surgery in 1993 and was hospitalized with pneumonia in 1997.
His career was one of the most phenomenal in country music, with a string of more than 20 No. 1 records, most released from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.
They were recorded with a honky-tonk twang that came to be known throughout California as the "Bakersfield Sound," named for the town 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Los Angeles that Owens called home.