Young Buck: The Complete Pre Capitol Recordings [Original recording remastered]

Buck Owens | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 27, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Audium Entertainment
• ASIN: B0000584VI
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #238,559 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #51 in Music > Indie Music > Country > Honky-Tonk

Track Listings

1. It Don't Show on Me

2. Down on the Corner of Love

3. House Down the Block

4. Right After the Dance

5. Hot Dog

6. Rhythm and Booze

7. There Goes My Love

8. Sweethearts in Heaven

9. Honeysuckle

10. Leavin' Dirty Tracks

11. You're Fer Me

12. Blue Love

13. Please Don't Take Her From Me

14. Three Dimension Love

15. Why Don't My Mommy Stay With My Daddy and Me

16. I'm Gonna Blow

17. It Don't Show on Me

18. Down on the Corner of Love

19. House Down the Block

20. Right After the Dance

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Early Recordings of Buck Owens, March 12, 2001

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Ron Frankl (North Carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Young Buck: The Complete Pre Capitol Recordings (Audio CD)

Buck Owens kicked around the music business for over a decade before he became a star and one of the fathers of the so-called "Bakersfield Sound" that survives in country music to this day. Owens worked steadily as a studio musician before turning to songwriting. By the mid 1950's he was recording demos of his songs for other artists to hear, then began to record singles for a few tiny California labels, without much notice or success.

This CD compiles those early singles and demos. Its interesting how much of the style he rode to the top of the country charts was already in place in the mid to late Fifties. Owens was country to the core, yet he was one of the first artists to incorporate rock & roll elements such as the driving beat and jangly electric guitar into country music. The fact that none of these sides became hits probably means that Owens was just ahead of his time. Several of these songs were re-recorded by Owens when he joined Capitol Records in 1959, with "Down On the Corner Of Love" becoming a major hit.

There is a lot of fine music here, and fans of Owens, the Bakersfield Sound and classic country will want to own this. Some of these tracks have been available before, but with greatly inferior sound and without the excellent booklet assembled by the Country Music Foundation. Let's hope that the CMF continues this promising reissue series (check out their recent Jimmy Martin title), because this is the way reissues should be done.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool and Unique!, November 23, 2005

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squeeze - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Young Buck: The Complete Pre Capitol Recordings (Audio CD)

This Buck Owens recording is a must have for collectors. It features Buck in a way that is seldom heard. Check out the blues influence on "I`m Gonna Blow" The sound quality is great! Add it to your collection, you wont regret this purchase!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Several different sides of Buck, November 28, 2006

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Robert Harlow (New York, NY and Madrid, Spain) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Young Buck: The Complete Pre Capitol Recordings (Audio CD)

The songs on this album sound quite a bit different from the more stylized sound Buck had with the Buckaroos. But it's still great -- usually I don't like Buck without the Buckaroos (it's like Bruce without the E Street Band -- the electricity just isn't there), but here it's different. That's because there is a wide variety, from rockabilly (Hot Dog) to some downright sweet songs (Right After the Dance) and the contagious melodies that are pure Buck Owens (Down on the Corner of Love, to name just one). What helps is the great sound quality. Don't think that because it's early recordings, it's not going to sound good. Someone in some remastering studio treated this with the TLC it deserves. If you like Buck, you will be very happy with this collection.