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.Doyle met a woman and spent the nightat her house.The next morning, she took him back to the motel where theband was staying, but the guys had checked out and gone on to San Fran-cisco, about eighty miles away, without him.Buck had left an envelope at thefront office with Doyle s name on it.There was a $20 bill inside, along witha note that said, Here s $20.If this ll get you to San Francisco, you ve still gotyour job. Doyle gave the woman the $20 and she drove him to San Francisco.When he walked into the hotel, Buck and Don were standing there. I m notthat easy to get rid of, Doyle said.Buck and Don got a kick out of it.The drummers Mel King, Willie, and later Jerry Wiggins were fre-quently late. It must be just a drummer s trait, Doyle said. We run off andleft Jerry Wiggins three or four times.And he never did get the message. Once, Willie got left behind accidentally while dawdling at a truck stop inWyoming.The bus had gone seventy-five miles down the road when a high- 01(001-308)body:sisk 5/21/10 10:51 AM Page 124124 BUCK OWENSiway patrolman pulled it over and told the guys they had left one of their bandmembers at their last stop.So they had to turn around and go back for him.hAfter the band got the bus, Buck started flying more, but there were still timeswhen he rode with the guys and drove.The last time he drove the bus wasnear Four Corners, New Mexico, about two or three o clock in the morning.He had taken a wrong turn off the interstate and ended up on a narrow two-lane highway.When Buck realized his mistake, he proceeded to turn the busaround and got it high-centered, which meant it was straddling the road,front and back wheels on both sides not touching the asphalt, blocking bothlanes of traffic.Approaching cars were forced to stop, and when people gotout to see what was going on, their headlights illuminated the big BuckOwens and the Buckaroo s [sic] sign on either side of the bus.That more orless ended Buck s driving career, which was fine by him. 01(001-308)body:sisk 5/21/10 10:51 AM Page 12525THE GIRL SINGERiThe band s new Flex bus was missing one important feature: a lavatory.Untilone was added, the guys Okie-rigged a pisser, which was a funnel attachedto a garden hose that emptied through a hole in the door at the front of thebus.That way they could relieve themselves in transit and leave a streamout on the highway.The only problem was that in wintertime, the hose wouldfreeze, and what was supposed to go outside came inside and there was a messto clean in the bus.Nevertheless, the pisser helped keep stops to a minimum,which Buck insisted on.By mid-1966, however, the bus had to make stops for one member of theentourage who couldn t use the funnel: Kay Adams, who was hired as Buck sopening act.Whereas Bonnie Owens had only sung backup, Kay was a fea-tured performer the group s first real girl singer.hKay was discovered by Dusty Rhodes when he was scouting new talent.Hebecame mesmerized by her appearances on Dave Stogner s local televisionvariety show, KLYD s Kountry Korner.Kay had appeared on only a couple ofshows when Dusty showed up at the station and asked if she was interestedin getting into music professionally.She said yes, and he took her to see CliffieStone, who was a singer, songwriter, bandleader, bass player, disc jockey,booking agent, manager, and record company executive, among other things.He had a knack for discovering and nurturing new talent.Cliffie took Kay down to the studios of Tower Records, a Capitol Recordssubsidiary, for an audition.She wore the only dress she owned, and a pair oflittle brown flats instead of heels because she was recovering from a fluke125i j 01(001-308)body:sisk 5/21/10 10:51 AM Page 126126 BUCK OWENSiaccident involving a push mower.She just stood there and sang her heart out.Cliffie declared that she was the most country little thing he d ever seen andsaid he wanted to record her and see what they could do together.Kay wassigned to Tower on July 15, 1965.Her first Tower single, Honky-Tonk Heartache, went to the top ten inlocal and regional markets.When she won the most promising female vocal-ist award from the Academy of Country and Western Music, she almostfainted from the shock. That was the last thing I would have thought of inmy life, she said. I was too new. (Her counterpart that year as the academy smost promising male vocalist was Buck s chief rival, Merle Haggard.) It wasthe newly founded organization s first awards show, Kay remembered, andthey didn t have trophies made up for the ceremony.They handed her some-thing that looked like a trivet, a thing you set a hot pot on, she said.hCliffie was the one who introduced Kay to Buck, who continued his reign asthe top artist of the day [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Doyle met a woman and spent the nightat her house.The next morning, she took him back to the motel where theband was staying, but the guys had checked out and gone on to San Fran-cisco, about eighty miles away, without him.Buck had left an envelope at thefront office with Doyle s name on it.There was a $20 bill inside, along witha note that said, Here s $20.If this ll get you to San Francisco, you ve still gotyour job. Doyle gave the woman the $20 and she drove him to San Francisco.When he walked into the hotel, Buck and Don were standing there. I m notthat easy to get rid of, Doyle said.Buck and Don got a kick out of it.The drummers Mel King, Willie, and later Jerry Wiggins were fre-quently late. It must be just a drummer s trait, Doyle said. We run off andleft Jerry Wiggins three or four times.And he never did get the message. Once, Willie got left behind accidentally while dawdling at a truck stop inWyoming.The bus had gone seventy-five miles down the road when a high- 01(001-308)body:sisk 5/21/10 10:51 AM Page 124124 BUCK OWENSiway patrolman pulled it over and told the guys they had left one of their bandmembers at their last stop.So they had to turn around and go back for him.hAfter the band got the bus, Buck started flying more, but there were still timeswhen he rode with the guys and drove.The last time he drove the bus wasnear Four Corners, New Mexico, about two or three o clock in the morning.He had taken a wrong turn off the interstate and ended up on a narrow two-lane highway.When Buck realized his mistake, he proceeded to turn the busaround and got it high-centered, which meant it was straddling the road,front and back wheels on both sides not touching the asphalt, blocking bothlanes of traffic.Approaching cars were forced to stop, and when people gotout to see what was going on, their headlights illuminated the big BuckOwens and the Buckaroo s [sic] sign on either side of the bus.That more orless ended Buck s driving career, which was fine by him. 01(001-308)body:sisk 5/21/10 10:51 AM Page 12525THE GIRL SINGERiThe band s new Flex bus was missing one important feature: a lavatory.Untilone was added, the guys Okie-rigged a pisser, which was a funnel attachedto a garden hose that emptied through a hole in the door at the front of thebus.That way they could relieve themselves in transit and leave a streamout on the highway.The only problem was that in wintertime, the hose wouldfreeze, and what was supposed to go outside came inside and there was a messto clean in the bus.Nevertheless, the pisser helped keep stops to a minimum,which Buck insisted on.By mid-1966, however, the bus had to make stops for one member of theentourage who couldn t use the funnel: Kay Adams, who was hired as Buck sopening act.Whereas Bonnie Owens had only sung backup, Kay was a fea-tured performer the group s first real girl singer.hKay was discovered by Dusty Rhodes when he was scouting new talent.Hebecame mesmerized by her appearances on Dave Stogner s local televisionvariety show, KLYD s Kountry Korner.Kay had appeared on only a couple ofshows when Dusty showed up at the station and asked if she was interestedin getting into music professionally.She said yes, and he took her to see CliffieStone, who was a singer, songwriter, bandleader, bass player, disc jockey,booking agent, manager, and record company executive, among other things.He had a knack for discovering and nurturing new talent.Cliffie took Kay down to the studios of Tower Records, a Capitol Recordssubsidiary, for an audition.She wore the only dress she owned, and a pair oflittle brown flats instead of heels because she was recovering from a fluke125i j 01(001-308)body:sisk 5/21/10 10:51 AM Page 126126 BUCK OWENSiaccident involving a push mower.She just stood there and sang her heart out.Cliffie declared that she was the most country little thing he d ever seen andsaid he wanted to record her and see what they could do together.Kay wassigned to Tower on July 15, 1965.Her first Tower single, Honky-Tonk Heartache, went to the top ten inlocal and regional markets.When she won the most promising female vocal-ist award from the Academy of Country and Western Music, she almostfainted from the shock. That was the last thing I would have thought of inmy life, she said. I was too new. (Her counterpart that year as the academy smost promising male vocalist was Buck s chief rival, Merle Haggard.) It wasthe newly founded organization s first awards show, Kay remembered, andthey didn t have trophies made up for the ceremony.They handed her some-thing that looked like a trivet, a thing you set a hot pot on, she said.hCliffie was the one who introduced Kay to Buck, who continued his reign asthe top artist of the day [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]