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COUNTRY,
BLUEGRASS & OLD-TIMEY
Buck
Owens -> Vernon Oxford
| BUCK OWENS |
Curb 77342 |
All-Time Greatest Hits, Vol 1 |
● CD $10.98 |
Fantastic-sounding but far from definitive single CD
collection. Some of the big hits, including the ones most associated with
Buck, are here. Act Naturally, Together Again, Tiger By The
Tail, Think of Me, Foolin'
Around and Under Your Spell Again sound incredible on CD
and are as strong as they were the day he recorded them. Two of his
earliest hits, Under Your Spell Again from 1959 and Excuse Me (I Think I've Got A Heartache) are also included.
The original pre-Dwight Yoakam Streets of Bakersfield is also
included. Though all these songs were hits (except the original Streets of Bakersfield) it's amazing that such mediocrities as
Made In Japan, Big In Vegas and Who's Gonna
Mow Your Grass were included over Waitin' In Your Welfare
Line, Love's Gonna Live Here (16 weeks at # 1 in 1963!)
and Open Up Your Heart. Buck's producer Ken Nelson's notes
don't do this music (or his role in creating it) justice. (RK)
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| BUCK OWENS |
Curb 77349 |
Christmas With Buck Owens |
● CD $8.98 |
12 Capitol sides - Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy/
Christmas Ain't Christmas/ All I Want For Christmas Dear Is You/ Christmas
Time's A Comin'/ Here Comes Santa Claus Again/ It's Christmas Time For
Everyone But Me, etc.
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| BUCK OWENS |
Curb 77568 |
All-Time Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 |
● CD $10.98 |
Those of you who aren't ready for the Buck Owens box might
consider this 11-cut disc as a substitute. Includes Love's Gonna Live
Here/ Second Fiddle/ Open Up Your Heart/ Gonna Have Love/ Tall Dark
Stranger/ Ruby/ Johnny B. Goode and more.
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| BUCK OWENS |
Curb 77649 |
All Time Greatest Hits Vol 3 |
● CD $10.98 |
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| BUCK OWENS |
Rhino 71016 |
The Buck Owens Collection (1959-1990) |
● CD $49.98 |
Fabulous 3-CD, 62 song celebration of Alvis Edgar
"Buck" Owens, who, born to poverty & sharecropping in Texas,
earned his honky tonk chops in Phoenix, and burst out of Bakersfield in
the early 60s to teach Nashville a hard drivin', honky-tonkin' lesson on
what country music is all about. Combining an irresistible, shuffling
dancebeat, twangy, Fender-cured guitar chops, and a snappy band seconded
by fiddler/ guitarist Don Rich, with an innate knack for catchy lyrics of
adoration, heartbreak, quarrels, and hard-lived life, he let loose a
string of hits with few equals in music history. Included here are 20 #1s,
and many top 10s, as well as many great rare B-sides and album cuts. It gives you
classics like Above & Beyond/ Act Naturally/ Together Again/ Crying
Again & Welfare Line along with gems like 2 duets with Rose
Maddox, Loose Talk/ Mental Cruelty & Close Up The Honky
Tonks/ Before You Go/ Think Of Me & A-11. It rounds off
with recent duets with Dwight, Emmy Lou & Ringo. But, even if you have
all these, it might be worth it for the marvelous 76-page booklet, with
great history by Rich Kienzle, colorful commentary by Buck on each songs'
birth, and simply amazing photos from Buck's career (you won't believe his
car!). Sound is superb too. A classy tribute to a country great. (JM)
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| BUCK OWENS |
Rhino 71816 |
Vol. 1 - The Very Best Of |
● CD $11.98 |
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| BUCK OWENS |
Rhino 71817 |
Vol. 2 - The Very Best Of |
● CD $11.98 |
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| BUCK OWENS |
Sundazed 6042 |
Country Ballads By One Of America's Top
Singers |
● CD $12.98 |
14 tracks, 33 mins, essential These are not Buck Owens'
first recordings; he previously recorded for the Pep and Chesterfield
labels . However, these pre- Buckaroo tracks from the late '50s, Owens'
first Capitol's release, are among his very best. Actually several of the
future Buckaroos are here as well, including Don Rich on lead guitar and
Ralph Mooney on pedal steel. Many of the finest examples of the
Bakersfield sound are here: Second Fiddle/ Above and Beyond/ Under Your
Spell Again, and I'll Take a Chance on Loving You, to name a
few. Buck delivers some of his greatest vocals anywhere and the
instrumental backup is always driving, right on target, and pure country!
Bonus tracks include High as the Mountains and Nobody's Fool But
Yours from a early single and anthology. For owners of Rhino's Buck
Owens anthology of a few years ago, there are 4 duplications with this
release. It's just not possible to find so much great early Buck Owens
material on one disc anywhere else! The CD booklet includes the original
liner notes, complete personnel listings, and an essay on Owens by Rich
Kienzle. (DP)
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| BUCK OWENS |
Sundazed 6043 |
You're For Me |
● CD $12.98 |
14 tracks, 34 min, recommended. This is a reproduction of Owens'
Capitol lp ST-1777 from 1962, including bonus cuts of the mono versions of
Capitol singles Under The Influence Of Love and You're For Me,
both of which are also included on the original album. In addition to four
chart hits from the era (the title cut, Under The Influence Of Love/
Nobody's Fool But Yours, and House Down The Block), the album
includes two instrumental demonstrations of just what a fine guitarist
Buck was; The Mexican Polka and Country Polka provide hot
workouts for Buck on his Telecaster, as well as the rest of the band. Also
included are Fool Me Again/ Mirror, Mirror/ On The Wall/ Bad, Bad Dream,
etc. Hard nosed, exciting honky tonk, seminal Bakersfield Sound from one
of its prime practitioners. (RP)
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| BUCK OWENS &
HIS BUCKAROOS |
Sundazed 6044 |
On The Bandstand |
● CD $11.98 |
Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens, who, born to poverty
& sharecropping in Texas, earned his honky tonk chops in Phoenix, and
burst out of Bakersfield in the early 60s to teach Nashville a hard drivin',
honky-tonkin' lesson on what country music is all about. Combining an
irresistible, shuffling dancebeat, twangy, Fender-cured guitar chops, and
a snappy band seconded by fiddler/ guitarist Don Rich, with an innate
knack for catchy lyrics of adoration, heartbreak, quarrels, and hard-lived
life, he let loose a string of hits with few equals in music history. His
classic Capitol LPs have been out of print in this country for many years
and have only been available as expensive Japanese imports. Sundazed
Records is now issuing many of these classics at an affordable price. Each
package features the original album (with bonus cuts on the compact disc
version), original album design plus new notes by Rich Kienzle, rare
photos, session data and more. All these releases have been remastered
from the original session tapes. This is a reissue of a 1963 "country
favorites" LP featuring plentiful solos and vocals by the Buckaroos.
With Orange Blossom Special/ Cotton Fields/ Release Me/ Diggy Liggy Lo
and others. The CD bonus cuts are two of his acclaimed duets with Rose
Maddox (Sweethearts In Heaven/ We're The Talk Of The Town) (AK)
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| BUCK OWENS &
HIS BUCKAROOS |
Sundazed 6046 |
I Don't Care |
● CD $11.98 |
Some of Buck's albums during the 60s followed a formula
mixing his vocals, band members' vocals and instrumentals. This one has
Buck's hits of the moment, in this case his 1964 # 1 record I Don't
Care, and a lesser hit, Don't Let Her Know. He and the
Buckaroos also covered other artists' hits (Dang Me sung by Buck
and Don Rich), Buck sings This Ol' Heart, You're Welcome Anytime
and a superb version of Wynn Stewart's Bakersfield classic Playboy.
Bassist Doyle Holly (later to record the first version of Queen of the
Silver Dollar) sings Abilene and Johnny Cash's Understand
Your Man. Don Rich tackles Rusty and Doug's Louisiana Man, and
steel guitarist Tom Brumley performs Bud's Bounce. Buck, a veteran
studio guitarist, also gives us Buck's Polka, There's a reissue of
Buck's 1961 hit duet with Rose Maddox on the old Carl Smith hit Loose
Talk. Reissue of Capitol ST-2186 from 1964. The bonus cuts are
instrmental versions of I Don't Care and Don't Let Her Know.
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| BUCK OWENS &
HIS BUCKAROOS |
Sundazed 6048 |
Before You Go/ No One But You |
● CD $11.98 |
Plenty of Don Rich's vocal harmonies backing Buck (Buck
usually overdubbed his own harmonies on records, though Don sang them
onstage). This album is built around his 1965 hit along with the # 10 hit Gonna
Have Love, a Tom Brumley instrumental of Steel Guitar Rag and
Buck weighing in with the Raz-Ma-Taz Polka (really!). Buck sings
several songs he wrote or co-wrote including Getting Used to Loving
You, No Fool Like An Old Fool, If You Want A Love, (I Want) No One
But You, Number One Heel, There's Gonna Come A Day. Stretching the
boundaries of country if not rockabilly, a version of the Coasters'
Charlie Brown. Reissue of Capitol ST-2353 from 1965. Bonus cuts are live
versions of Love's Gonna Live Here and Before You Go.
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| BUCK OWENS &
HIS BUCKAROOS |
Sundazed 6049 |
The Instrumental Hits |
● CD $11.98 |
14 tracks, 31 mins, recommended This collection of
instrumental tunes featuring the work of many of the excellent soloists in
the band (including Buck himself). These cuts were assembled from Buck's
various Capital recordings of the 1960's. Many of the tracks are country
standards like Orange Blossom Special and Faded Love, both
of which highlight Don Rich's frenetic fiddling. A number of original
tunes are also featured, inclduing the classic country hit Buckaroo,
various polkas, and some instrumental versions of hits like Act
Naturally and I've Got a Tiger by the Tail. A whole disc of
these tunes sometimes seems a little much but the songs certainly provide
a vivid and very enjoyable illustration of the trademark Bakersfield sound
as epitomized by the Buckaroos, with its driving guitar - steel
combination. As Rich Kienzle says in his liner notes, "the musical
excellence of the Buckaroos doesn't come across any better than on these
songs". (DP)
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| BUCK OWENS |
Sundazed 6101 |
Sings Harlan Howard |
● CD $11.98 |
Reissue of 1968 album plus bonus cuts.
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| BUCK OWENS |
Sundazed 6102 |
Sings Tommy Collins |
● CD $11.98 |
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| BUCK OWENS |
Sundazed 6103 |
In Japan! |
● CD $11.98 |
Reissue of 1967 live concert.
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| BUCK OWENS |
Sundazed 6105 |
It Takes People Like You |
● CD $11.98 |
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| BUCK OWENS &
HIS BUCKAROOS |
Sundazed 11090 |
Carnegie Hall Concert |
● CD $15.98 |
The complete unedited show from 1966
with Ken Nelson's original stereo mix. Includes original cover art plus
previously unpublished photos.
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| VERNON OXFORD |
Bear Family BCD 15774 |
Keeper Of The Flame |
● CD $113.98 |
Five CD's 142 songs, recommended
Spindly, unfashionable
Arkansas native Vernon Oxford was an obscure 24 year old singer when he
landed an RCA Victor recording contract in 1965. Soon he discovered that
the Grand Ole Opry , of all places. considered him too country to qualify
for membership. Nonetheless, Oxford held on the label through the 1970's,
championed by his producer Bob Ferguson and enjoying minor hits and brief
Top 20 popularity with his 1976 Redneck! (Redneck National Anthem
). He did far better in Europe where traditional singers were appreciated.
This set collects his complete 1965-1981 recordings for RCA, Stop, Meteor,
Omni, Rich-R-Tone/Bear Family and his magnificent Nashville recordings for
Rounder. Everything is here except two 1972 songs recorded for Cartwheel
Records, never issued and lost. Oxford, unable to make a transition to
smoother music, had only music biz insiders, traditionalist fans and
critics on his side in the States. The fact most country radio programmers
were as stupid and narrow-minded then as they are now aggravated the
problem, so he got little radio airplay. Sadder but wiser, battered by
Nashville, Oxford today concentrates on performing gospel and non-musical
employment. That doesn't diminish Oxford's magnificent achievements on
record, and this set is a celebration of that career. The booklet features
an essay by Colin Escott based on 1995 interviews with Oxford, as well as
a complete discography. For those who've bought Oxford albums over the
years, this is a great way to have all the best in one place. (RK)
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