Buck Owens: My Bad

Dayna Wills · Post by **Dayna Wills** » 17 Aug 2013 10:59 am

I mistakenly stated that Buck Owens played steel early on, oops! Actually, before he had his own hits, he played as a staff musician on other people's hits, such as Bud Hobbs and I think, some early Tommy Collins.

Steve Hinson · Post by **Steve Hinson** » 17 Aug 2013 1:11 pm

Buck was a steel player with Mac's Skillet Lickers before his studio musician career.

Dayna Wills · Post by **Dayna Wills** » 17 Aug 2013 1:58 pm

REALLY! I thought he would have to be way young to have worked with them..... My Uncle Luke knew that group...

Steve Hinson · Post by **Steve Hinson** » 17 Aug 2013 10:42 pm

I read that in a book about country music...

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 18 Aug 2013 4:28 am

His Bio which can be googled states he taught himself to play both acoustic and Steel guitar. And played in a band with Max in the late 1940s.

Pete Finney · Post by **Pete Finney** » 18 Aug 2013 9:45 am

There's a photo of Buck playing steel in this old thread:

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=110438&