CR010 - Buck Owens & Don Rich, Part 1: Open Up Your Heart

Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music

Tyler Mahan Coe

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🗓️ 26 December 2017

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Whatever else is true about Buck Owens (and some of it certainly is), he brought hard country music to the world in a time when we desperately needed someone to do that. Sticking to that honky tonk sound from Bakersfield made him a very famous man. Shrewd business practices made him a very rich man. Both of these things made him more than a few enemies. However, all you need to take on the whole world is one true friend and Buck Owens had that friend in Don Rich, his guitarist and right-hand man. Here in the first part of this story, we'll hear how everything came together, all those years ago... This episode is recommended for fans of The Bakersfield Sound, Merle Haggard, Wynn Stewart, western swing, guitar, David & Goliath stories and the Revisionist History podcast.

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0:00.0	Probably most of you saw this commercial from a soap company in 2013.
0:04.8	I'm a forensic artist.
0:06.3	Worked for the San Jose Police Department from 1995 to 2011.
0:10.8	I showed up to a place I'd never been and there was a guy with a drafting board.
0:15.5	We couldn't see them, they couldn't see us.
0:17.7	Tell me about your hair.
0:20.0	I didn't know what he was doing, but then I could tell after several questions that he was drawing me.
0:27.5	Tell me about your chin.
0:29.6	Get kind of put trudes a little bit, especially when I smile.
0:35.5	Your jaw?
0:36.5	My mom told me I had a big jaw.
0:39.0	What would be your most prominent feature?
0:41.0	Kind of have a fat rounder face.
0:43.0	The older I've gotten, the more freckles I've gotten.
0:47.0	I would say I have a pretty big forehead.
0:49.0	Then the interview subject leaves without seeing the sketch artist rendering of them.
0:54.5	Another person is brought in and asked to describe that first person to the same sketch artist.
1:00.5	She was thin so you could see her cheekbones.
1:03.0	And her chin?
1:04.0	It was a nice thin chin.
1:09.0	She had nice eyes.
1:10.0	They laid up when she spoke.
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