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Buck Owens: The Biography ReviewAs a Buck Owens fan fairly familiar with his life story already, I was disappointed in how this book chose to depict Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr.
As an unauthorized biography, it strives to measure up in two ways.
First, it attempts to chronicle Buck's life in a detailed, factual way -- sharing crazy inside stories about the evolution to fame and the long and winding road to get there.
Second, it attempts to deliver never-before-heard, brow-raising claims that define why many people feel unauthorized biographies border on tabloid journalism and are presented for only one reason.
Do I dare say they're setting new lows in trying to turn a Buck on this one?
To begin with, the book has neither a heart nor a soul. It mostly felt like an ax grinding.
Buck's life story is as good as they come -- better than most.
He was known to be a hard-nosed businessman and demanding boss. But he was also a dreamer and it was his heart that relentlessly drove him forward. He knew what he wanted -- and what he didn't want. Buck left a great lesson about getting something in your heart.
Buck also had a tremendous work ethic and an intuitive sense of business that he learned along the way. He did the very best he could with what he had to work with. Another great lesson.
To me the book seemed choppy and helter-skelter. Buck's life story should be a wild roller coaster ride, a beginning to end loop filled with highs and lows, crazy turns and all the emotions that come with the ticket.
Instead, the flow of this story made me feel more like I was in a pinball machine --never quite sure where the story was bouncing next. It's when I started to hear that ax grinding. Tilt.
Although I enjoyed learning about key figures in Buck's life, the book drops so many names from the recording industry that they clutter-up the story and become disruptive to its flow and continuity. I had to go back time and again to make sure I had my "who's-who" correct. I did so because I felt confused.
In addition, the never-ending documentation of "songs and years that Buck released them" seemed like meaningless fill. Buck had lots of hits and lots of key songs and they all needed to be in the story. Many of the other songs, again, seemed like clutter.
The book offers a variety of tales of Buck's wild and controversial side as well. The behind-the-scenes offerings include stories of sex, drugs, women, strained relations, business ethics and secret deals. Many of the tales are so one-sided and whispy with backup that real Buck fans will have a hard time not feeling offended.
There's no doubt that Buck Owens had his highs, and assuredly had his lows.
But this book seems to have chosen his lows as its theme and pathway to the bank. From the outset the tone is set when readers are teased with the line that Buck was "a very bad man who made very good music."
Considering from where he came, and to where he took himself in life, Buck's story is as All-American as they get -- including his lows. It's one that many might be inspired by, or be able to learn from. The unauthorized biography has chosen to offer a darker vision of what Buck did with his life.
To me, Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. deserves better than this.
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