Anyone familiar with Buck Owens solely as the king of Bakersfield's brand of country music and/or the goofball co-host of TV's long-running Hee Haw will be shocked by Eileen Sisk's story of his life.

Buck Owens, according to biographer Eileen Sisk, was a man inclined to change his mind on a whim without explanation. An admirer of her first book, he met Sisk, agreed to participate in this ...

In her new biography, Eileen Sisk takes a behind-the-scenes look at the life and career of the country superstar. Buck Owens was the top-selling country artist of the 1960's, and his musical style ...

Sisk's Buck Owens: The Biography is the first in-depth examination of the legendary performer, offering a glimpse behind the grinning persona and red-white-and-blue guitars. Using public records ...

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“They did tone down their act for New York,” notes Eileen Sisk, author of Buck Owens: The Biography. “Buck liked to shock and awe people, so he had a raunchier show for country audience ...

According to Eileen Sisk’s Buck Owens: The Biography and every other book about country music I’ve read, Owens was a mean, miserable, womanizing, bullying, emotionally abusive sonofabitch.

Five-year-old Jessica Stump can't read yet, but she tightly held onto her copy of "Freight Train Running: A Biography of Buck Owens" Wednesday afternoon. "I like the pictures," Jessica said of the ...

Garth Brooks said the second stop on his "Dive Bar" tour will be Buck Owens' Crystal Palace, where he proposed to Trisha Yearwood in 2005. Yoakam pays tribute to hero with new album U.S. country ...

Sisk (Honky-Tonks: Guide to Country Dancin' and Romancin') opens with a warm dedication and a note of thanks to the late country star Buck ... biography before nixing the agreement. The stories of ...