◇ image via WikipediaBuck Owens
Buck Owens is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Wynn Stewart, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Wanda Jackson, Okie and George Jones. Those roots explain a lot about how Buck Owens arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Hank Thompson, Conway Twitty, Roger Miller, George Strait and The Statler Brothers, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Ray Charles, Parker McCollum, The Beatles, Ringo Starr and Creedence Clearwater Revival, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 48 connections around Buck Owens, reaching back through Wynn Stewart and forward to Ray Charles. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens Jr. was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the frontman for The Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music chart. He pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound, named in honor of Bakersfield, California, Owens's adopted home and the city from which he drew inspiration for what he preferred to call "American music".
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Buck Owens connections
Buck Owens grew out of Wynn Stewart, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Wanda Jackson and Okie, shares an orbit with Hank Thompson, Conway Twitty, Roger Miller and George Strait, went on to shape Ray Charles, Parker McCollum, The Beatles and Ringo Starr. 48 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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