Buck Owens - The Biography

Informationen zum Autor Eileen Sisk is a former editor at the Tennessean, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and the Washington Post and a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. and the Society of Professional Journalists. She is the author of Honky-Tonks: Guide to Country Dancin' and Romancin' . Klappentext "Buck Owens was the top-selling country act of the 1960s, with more than thirty top ten singles and fifteen consecutive #1 hits. Inventor of the Bakersfield Sound, he was hugely popular not only with country fans but with rock fans too. The Beatles covered his songs; Gram Parsons idolized him; the Grateful Dead loved him. At least six 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, city him as a major influence"--Cover, p. 2.

Product details

• Authors: Eileen Sisk, Sisk Eileen
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2012
• EAN: 9781613743355
• ISBN: 978-1-61374-335-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies; Musiker, Sänger, Bands und Gruppen, Biografien: Kunst und Unterhaltung, Komponisten und Songwriter, Country and Western