![]() ![]() Always up for extra income and opportunities, Buck agreed to play the session in L.A. The recollection brought him to Buck Owens’ modest Bakersfield home one evening. Then Collins remembered playing the Blackboard, a club in Bakersfield, and the hot guitarist in the house band Bill Woods & the Orange Blossom Playboys. His buddy, Ferlin Husky, who played the lead on Collins’ first session, was busy promoting his own hit single. With his second Capitol recording session looming in September, 1953, Tommy Collins, a cast member of Southern California’s “Town Hall Party” TV show, was up a creek. Photos: Felix Adamo/Bakersfield Californian.īuck Owens’ track to stardom had an unorthodox start and believe it or not, his singing didn’t launch that journey as much as his guitar skills it started when another singer needed a lead guitarist on short notice.
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