Line Out - Comments on Ol' Buck http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/ol_buck All this talk about pedal steel guitars has me thinking about country music—though I guess I’m always thinking about country music—which has me thinking about Buck Owens, whom I’ve been obsessively listening to for months now. The more I listen... Copyright 2008 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:50:05 -0800 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:42:51 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Satan's Jeweled Crown Whoa. Until now I don't think I've ever heard the adjective, ripping, used to describe steel guitar playing.

]]> Satan's Jeweled Crown http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/ol_buck#c766337 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/ol_buck#c766337 Dust Bin Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:26:49 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Whoa, yeah! I love Buck Owens, but DON RICH -- oh, my fucking God. He was the best harmony singer ever. Not even the Everly Brothers or the Louvin Brothers or even Joyce Brothers could touch Buck and Don -- their voices just cut across each other like glass. And Don would just stand there between turns, chewing gum, with a big ol' shit-eating grin. AND he could play killer guitar, better than any of his rock coevals. Don Rich, I love you.

I'm going to guess, or suggest, "rippling" as a substitute for "ripping".

Please: fifty more posts like this!

]]> Fnarf http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/ol_buck#c766350 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/ol_buck#c766350 Dust Bin Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:39:05 -0800 Comment by --MC Yes, Buck is king. Of course, I don't know if I can say that wholeheartedly; the only Buck album I have, one I loved as a child, is Buck's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" LP, from the au go go 60s, with his renditions of Simon & Garfunkel, Dylan, and Donovan songs. (No, he doesn't do "I Love My Shirt" or "Barabajagle".) There are days when I prefer his versions to the originals.

]]> --MC http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/ol_buck#c766355 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/ol_buck#c766355 Dust Bin Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:49:26 -0800 Comment by Kim Hayden Fnarf @ 2: I know! My boyfriend and I have been obsessing over Don Rich, and when we're singing along to Buck in the car or in the kitchen, we both end up doing Don Rich's part. He's amazing.

]]> Kim Hayden http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/ol_buck#c766361 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/ol_buck#c766361 Dust Bin Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:55:32 -0800 Comment by nipper I spent the first few years of my life pretending to be Buck Owens, Hee Haw Buck as I called him, for my folk's movie camera. I loved him. There are hours of me wailing along with Mr. Owens, on my kids guitar, as his LPs played on the turntable....thank god it was silent film!

and I suspect Buck and Don's harmonies, along with the Everly's are why, as a kid, I considered the Beatles a "nice try"...

]]> nipper http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/ol_buck#c766372 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/ol_buck#c766372 Dust Bin Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:11:48 -0800 Comment by Bill LaBorde Thank you, Kim! A nice essay and some great clips about this underappreciated giant.

Nipper @5. I agree about the Beatles' "nice try." But, doesn't it say something that when they covered Act Naturally in 1965, the Beatles were the world's most popular band and quickly moving away from doing covers, but they just couldn't resist putting out a cover of one of Buck's great tunes (I'm sure George Martin didn't get it). Those English kids should have been spray painting "Buck is God" all over Britain. I never got the whole "Clapton is God" thing.

]]> Bill LaBorde http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/ol_buck#c766404 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/07/ol_buck#c766404 Dust Bin Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:42:51 -0800