Live from Austin TX

by Buck Owens

Overview

Buck Owens had been out of music for close to a dozen years when, prompted by the success of friend and fan Dwight Yoakam, he made a vocal cameo on Yoakam's cover of "Streets of Bakersfield" and cut a new album, Hot Dog!, in 1988. But to listen to this set, which Owens recorded warming up for Yoakam at a taping of the PBS series Austin City Limits in the fall of 1988, you'd never guess the man had been away from the stage at all. Live from Austin TX captures Owens in great, energetic form, and if his voice is just a bit less strong than it was in his youth, there's no doubting he was having terrific fun playing before an audience in his home state of Texas. There aren't a lot of surprises in the set list, but Owens and his band tear into "Love's Gonna Live Here Again," "Tiger by the Tail," and "Act Naturally" as if they were still storming up the charts, and Buck indulges his passion for rock & roll with high-spirited runs through "Johnny B. Goode," "Memphis," and "Hot Dog." Owens had lost none of his gift with a weeper, either, as "Crying Time" and "A-11" prove beyond a doubt. If there's a flaw to this set, it's that Owens performed only a bit longer than 29 minutes this evening, with Yoakam waiting in the wings to play his own set. But what Live from Austin TX lacks in quantity, it certainly has in quality; this isn't a revelation like the amazing 1966 Live at Carnegie Hall album, but it does show that Buck Owens never lost his love for great honky tonk music, and he always made sure to deliver the goods for his fans, which he unquestionably did this evening. ~ Mark Deming

Product Details

Release Date:	09/08/2017
Label:	New West
UPC:	0607396519514

Tracks

1. Act Naturally
2. Together Again
3. Love's Gonna Live Here
4. Crying Time
5. Tiger by the Tail
6. A-11
7. Hot Dog
8. Put Another Quarter in the Jukebox
9. Memphis
10. Under Your Spell Again
11. Johnny B. Goode

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Buck Owens   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Dwight Yoakam   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Featured Artist
James P. McCarty   Drums,Drums
Jim Shaw   Keyboards
Terry Christoffersen   Guitar,Guitar (Steel)
Doyle Curtsinger   Bass

Technical Credits

Jay Woods   Audio Production
Billy Lee Myers, Jr.   Audio Engineer,Engineer
Cameron Strang   Audio Production,Producer,Executive Producer
Gary Briggs   Audio Production,Mixing,Producer
David Hough   Audio Engineer,Engineer
Voni Morrison   Composer
Buck Owens   Composer
Hank Cochran   Composer
Howard Harlan   Composer
Scott Newton   Photography
Denny Dedmon   Composer
Katherine Delaney   Package Design
Mary Jurey   Project Coordinator
John Russell   Composer
Alvis E. Owens   Composer
Clare Surgeson   Associate Producer
Terry Lickona   Liner Notes
Chet Himes   Mixing
Chuck Berry   Composer
Dusty Rhodes   Composer
Jerry Tubb   Mastering