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two 60's country records in a row should be ILLEGAL
Gods, please save me from further country experience.
Not bad, classic country that doesn’t overstay its welcome.
When I joined the police cadets in 1970 I shared a room with a lad who loved this kind of stuff. Not seen him for years but every time I hear a Country song I think of him and how he sang them on the top of his voice. We couldn’t have been more diverse bed fellows as I was well into prog. Whilst we never fell out about it I could never understand how a lad my age liked Country. I thought it was for old buggers. Of course I was wrong on that because now that I am an old bugger I still don’t like Country. Unlike back then I do give it a chance but only when a Country album pops up on this list. This album was quite enjoyable in a quaint way. Gave me a chance to think again of my old mate singing about lonesome trees in the desert and mamma’s pumpkin pies. 2/5 1/4/26
“And His Buckaroos” is hilarious to me. Buck Owens is just perfect for today and I love that Wham Bam is in a “voice” so you can take it as ironic. There was only one song I didn’t immediately “love” on this album. I’ve always known I love country. I didn’t realize how much I needed Buck in my life. Perfect album.
Classic, but not as directly listenable now as some of the other similar stuff (Marty Robbins, JCash, etc)
Upbeat Bakersfield country built on twangy electric guitars, pedal steel, brisk drums, and confident, bright, distinctly nasal vocals in a classic country style moves with tight, catchy efficiency. Listening feels like riding a fast, dusty backroad where every turn repeats a familiar pattern without much variation. The result is lively and engaging at first, but its repetitious nature limits lasting impact.
You cannot look me in the eye and say this is music made by grown adults for grown adults.
Pretty good, not all boring country
Imagine a few tears fell down in some Bud heavy's to this one. Buck had himself a crooners rich voice.
Enjoyable country vibes
Eh just not really the country for me
A gateway record for people trying to understand country’s roots. Interesting to learn the schism between this and the more polished "Nashville sound" and it's lineage to alt country today. Doesn't mean I'm going to reach for it other than on a desert road trip
Buck Owens was one of the biggest names in country at the time, also one of the best. He has a really unique and fitting voice and the Buckaroos are one of the best country backing bands. I don't really enjoy this album as much as other works of his though. The instrumental track and songs not sung by him kind of detract from my experience. It doesn't really have the hit songs of some other albums of his either.
Будто послушал радио в Фоллауте, как приятно
Мда, тяжеловато. Хотя рэп мне все еще заходит тяжелее. Вроде и люблю скрипочки, но здесь от этого хонки-тонка мне становится неуютно. Наверно чисто как саундтрек в соответствующей обстановке норм
Самые длинные 32 минуты в моей жизни. Заглавный трек просто убил меня еще в начале. Он показался мне супер тупым. Дальше я еле доползла до конца альбома со смертельным ранением. p.s. не ожидала другого от человека, который взял имя своего осла
А теперь сравните с музыкой черных в 1965 году.
Лучшая песня: Buckaroo Худшая: хз У меня никакого негатива или раздражения этот альбом не вызвал, хоть периодически казалось, что играет одна и та же песня. Но в отлиячие от многих других альбомов в этом списке, срочно выключить его не хотелось. Проблема, видимо, в жанре все-таки и в его условностях, а не в цвете кожи исполнителя.
думал будет плохо, но мне местами даже зашло, правда слишком однообразно, все же поставлю 3
Не могу сказать, что испытываю большую антипатию к такого рода музыке. Наоборот, она для меня имеет какую-то парадоксальную притягательность - есть ощущение, что она несет в себе какое-то довольство той жизнью, которой ты живешь, даже если эта жизнь непритязательна. В путешествии по США хотелось зайти в заведение, где играют кантри, но более взрослые попутчики не оценили идею. Что ж, до следующего раза
historically really notable for how much this has influenced country music, and probably the best thing that has come out of bakersfield, california. the violin rendition of "a maiden's prayer" is really lovely and i'm always a sucker for some pedal steel guitar action, but this album is a bit more mixed than i'd like which is heavily because it's the production is Not good. if this were graded on a curve it'd maybe be closer to a four, but on the whole i think that this is decent. it's goofy music and it's good fun.
I have a real soft spot for honky-tonk music, its fun. It's almost a parody of itself, but it works. the titular "I've got a Tiger By the Tail" matches that energy perfectly. Unfortunately it doesn't really keep it up throughout the album and is a little uneven as a result. Songs like Fallin' for you are great, but I've never been a fan of slower Honky-tonk songs or when they're taking themselves a bit too seriously. Most of this sounds like the filler songs you'd put in a Fallout game, but specifically the newer ones like Fallout 4 or 76. That's not bad by any means, but it's hardly a standout. I was going to rate this a 3 but its more of a very strong 2.
I'm sure it's a classic album that's important in the country cabin but felt more parodic rather than good
Country is just not my thing.
Better than some of the other country that we have listened to
Yeehaw partner
Albums like this do a disservice to to the list. A few interesting ditties and a novelty tune do not make an album that could be considered to comprise the greatest albums of all time. The original album didn't even include Act Naturally!
Wow- this is so real country music.
This sounds like something that would be playing in a bar where the bartender would tell you "We've got both kinds of music here: Country AND Western!"
I’m not a country music guy beyond the basics, so while I’ve heard the name Buck Owens, I’ve not to my knowledge ever heard him, and so I can’t speak to his influence, though it seems that he was extremely influential and significant. This sounds pretty much exactly how I’d expect it to sound: the twangy guitars, the pedal steel, some fiddle. Songs about falling in and out (but mostly out) of love. I don’t know country music enough to situate it in that context, but compared to the rock and pop music of the time, which tended to the saccharine, it’s a nice contrast. I don’t mind this at all.
2.0 - Weak
This didn't age well.
Hee Haw 🤠
I'm not a fan of country.. but this wasn't bad. It's upbeat, light, doesn't take itself too seriously, and he sings well. I now have two country singers I don't mind listening to: Buck Owens and Willie Nelson.
I don't mind this style of music; beyond me what's supposedly of value in this particular album, though, beyond being fun enough the year it came out.
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sure did
Good ole fashioned country. Perfect for a day spent with horses 🤠
Buck Owens and his Buckaroos - I've Got a Tigeroo by the Tailaroo is a fine by ultimately pretty unremarkable countryroo music albumoroo. (I guess this pioneered some kind of country subgenre. Would never have guessed.)
Is this the worst album I’ve ever heard? Probably not but most of the songs I hate probably were influenced by this sound. Best track was the instrumental song which really illustrates how so much country is worse than the sum of its parts.
Have never listened to a country album front to back before. Very fun and the songs are short and to the point. Really fun album!
This is pretty fun. Do do do looking out my back door.
The first album that was hard for me to get through to the end. I understand the legacy, but it honestly sounds more like a parody of country. Act Naturally’ gets a small plus from me because it reminds me of movie X. 3/10
Nae my cup of hickery shit lye
i thought it would be fun to honk and tonk but this is just irritating
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Not a fan of this album at all but I 1000% can see myself wandering the fallout wastelands to the first song.
Bad twangy folk country from 60 years ago. Gross.
Owens music really shines when he kicks up the tempo and sings a jolly tune to a toe-tapping beat, which makes tracks like Wham Bam (all misogyny aside) stand out on this album. On the other end of the spectrum are the sad cowboy songs, which I typically enjoy but find that Owens vocals lack a fullness of emotion that I appreciate in the singing of other musicians like Marty Robbins and Dwight Yoakam. At the bottom of the barrel is Streets of Laredo, which had strange production and echoing vocals, sounding like it drew influences from some kind of Gregorian church chanting. Overall, I enjoyed becoming familiar with Buck Owens style of classic rock & roll country, and can clearly hear his influence in musicians that followed his style and genre, many of whom performed his music but better.
He looks like Jimmy Carter. I am not a country person and would rather not hear this again.
Mediocre country is a staple of this list, it seems.
If I rated 50 Cent up for coining “party like it’s your birthday,” it’s only fair to rate Buck Owens up for “wham, bam, thank you ma’am.”
I do not know "the Buck Owens story" (if any, lol) - I am coming at this "totally uninformed" ("blank slate baby, Descartes me as you will"). "Tiger by the Tail - clean mix, harmony singing, kewl. Is there a double entendre here? Second half lyrics say the tiger drags him into the light, rather than into the dark, meh. Musically, second half of song adds almost squit nothing to the first half - just a quick flourish at the very end. Is this album going to be indescribably tedious? (Spoiler alert: yes.) La la la. 'Memphis' is exciting (from a low base) for the appearance of the 5/6/7 boogie. Is it going anywhere? No, plse die now. Overall, the mix is clear (grats to engineers); nice slide guitar, tick. The lyrics and musical arrangements, however, are consumately shallow, repetitive, tedious, like a nightmare of endlessness. The drums are twee to a painful degree. May I give (cue French accent) zero points?? No, minimum one star. Okay, it's BAD, 1/10.
I'd say I was pretty neutral towards this. It was quite dated sounding. I'm not one for a lot of country, but this was easy listening.
Classic country holds a soft spot in my heart. This is a bit too kitchy for me, but I still enjoyed it.
I liek a lot
I recognize that this sound was super influential, and not just within country music, but classic country like this just isn't for me.
It was a short, good-sounding country album from the days way back. Also I knew the saying, but hearing in the song made me cringe, yet here it has a different meaning, I guess - wham, bam, thank you ma'm?
Short and fun songs, mostly good vibes. Let the sad times roll on is a banger.
Muy wena voz pero idk, está todo tan cuadradito que pierde caché
Might be the most country-sounding country I've ever heard.
Surprising good
Classic Bakersfield country.
Nutty career that this guy's got, it's a very pretty album though like a lot of classic country.
Forsvant forbi uten at jeg tenkte over det
Chill
Entiendo por que esto en su día fue brutai, pero a día de hoy es demasiado difícil de escuchar
Bullshit
Bom
I couldn’t do it! I was half way through the second song but had to stop! This is everything I hate about this sort of music and I just couldn’t bare it.
Hokey country music
Nothing really wrong with this one, just comes off as a bit samey in comparison to some of the other country music on here. Still, catchy!
This is my grandfathers bluegrass music. It’s a good history listen but I can’t see myself revisiting any of it away from this project.
Quite an upbeat, fun, album. Even the 'woe is me' tracks didn't make me want to slit my wrists. The guitar work is very good and he sings in tune. Not something I'd ever listen too again, but I appreciate the talent.
Look, this is fine. The highlight is the non-Ringo version of 'Act Naturally.' But this is really an old skool country record you can put on and forget about. Nothing mind blowing here.
Hokey but tight. I like country, history, and old country. I found this a little hokey, which makes sense for the guy from Hee Haw, but ultimately it was good all around, and he had an influence on keeping country less polished than Nashville was at the time. Iw as not feeling the first song, it has a little bit too much over enunciation for me and ends up feeling corny. I think what redeems the album is they were also having fun, like on Hee Haw, it was a bit of joke, and they were in on it. It's an entertainment and performance, and the music is tight and precise. Highlights: Let the Sad Times Roll, Act Naturally
Give me some Johnny Cash or modern alt. Country/Americana instead of this please. Mid 60s - 1965, Beatles with 'Rubber Soul', Dylan's 'Bringing It All Back Home',Johnny Cash has 'Orange Blossom Special' and yet Buck Owens is singing about swinging a tiger by the tail. Mediocre country. 2 out of 5 stars only.
A fine, short, country album. I did like how low his voice went on Streets of Laredo. 2.6/5 -> 3/5
The predominantly UK-based music critics that populated this list sure do have a fetish for early Country & Western music. I will not my own bias - C&W (and country in particular) is not a genre I luck much at all. And this album, while inoffensive, really does nothing for me. There's a tried and true formula to this music, and if the music describes the world you live in and/or this is music you grew up with this I can understand why you'd enjoy it. Other than that...it's pretty meh. The only thing this album seems to have inspired is people making more of this music. As you can tell, not for me.
Perfect country, right up my alley. No notes.
Did a good job of making me go to sleep during a 13 hour flight
Pretty enjoyable country music though it must have sounded a bit dated already in 1965.
Quand c'est non c'est non, la country ça ne veut pas...
Dette kan jeg like! 🐅🐅🐅
Var jo koseleg, dette her.
Since I moved to the countryside, I've been increasingly immersed in country music, discovering a whole new world I only knew superficially. Bakersfield Country? Never heard of it. Give me more! I'm loving every second of it. 5 stars.
НЕ НА КЪНТРИТО
Not my type of music however this one is really good
Pretty standard Country/Honky Tonk fare, at least this is broadly upbeat and a few of the songs were recognisable from future covers (Streets of Laredo and Johnny Cash) 5/10
Starts and ends well but the middle drags a bit. 3 stars or C+.
Old country ages so well. I especially enjoyed “trouble and me” and of course “Act Naturally “.
Country
Surprisingly refreshing
It’s ok. Not my thing.
Ugh, another one of these C&W wonders
Isn't "I've got a tiger by the tail" the "cleaner" version of a very VERY racist song line? I really should have disallowed country from this project for myself; I rarely enjoy these. Highlight: act naturally (because of the beatles, ngl)
sentimenteel amerikaans gezever
Don’t know enough to know why this is on list. Sounds like hundreds of other things from this era to me. It was fine
// det er ikke en eneste gang idag jeg har hatt 2% lyst til å sette på dette albumet. dette er ikke for meg for happy go lucky. noe fint til sunday blues listen min da
I think the record club is broken. The snow and cold must have done it in. All I've gotten in the past week is trash.
So there's some classics on here, but I have to say most of the really solid ones are done better by other folks. Has a nice throwback feel to it but if I want old-timey country/western twang there's much better options on this list.
estou curtindo, me sinto um sulista num bar
2,3 Highlights: Wham Bam, If You Fall Out Of Love With Me
Music of my early childhood.. My Dad sang so many of these. 3 stars for nostalgia.
The steel guitar and strings are pretty great, as are the vocals. Probably let that tiger go, though.
It's a funky, easy accessible country album with that Californian Bakersfield sound that makes country not too hard and annoying like, but funny and a bit ironical and naughty compared to the almost self-parody of beers, pickup trucks and something something freedom we hear nowadays.
I love the groovy Bakersfield sound, reminds me of my grandfather. Production on this album is lacking and I prefer a lot of the covers over the original, but a great album nonetheless, rating a 3 though due to my replay ability factor.
There's no accounting for taste, but it's tough that so many people can't seem to have a good time with country music. This is twangy, honky-tonk fun. This album flies by at only 32 minutes, and that's completely to it's merit. It doesn't outstay it's welcome, it's here for a good time not a long time. I can't say I was familiar with the Bakersfield sound by name before reading about this album, but there's no doubt that the style of country pioneered here has permeated the genre for all the decades since. Highlight: Wham Bam Lowlight: We're Gonna Let the Good Times Roll Highlight #2: Fallin' for You
Surprised at how long I listened to this
Such a fun album
Good stuff.
I've Got a Tiger By The Tail - 3/5 Trouble and Me - 2.5/5 Let the Sad Times Roll On - 2/5 Wham Bam - 2.5/5 If You Fall Out of Love With Me - 2.5/5 Fallin' For You - 3/5 We're Gonna Let the Good Times Roll - 2.5/5 The Band Keeps Playin' On - 2.5/5 Streets of Laredo - 3/5 Cryin' Time - 2/5 A Maiden's Prayer - 2.5/5 Memphis - 3/5 Pretty standard rockabilly country. Nothing really special but it's a decent album regardless. Production is very muddy at points where the vocals are drowned out by the music. Apparently this way a fairly influential album but I didn't really see it that way. Guess I'm not deep into the country scene or whatever. Overall: 2/5 Favorites: I've Got a Tiger By The Tail, Streets of Laredo, Memphis
wham bam thank you ma'am this the closest i've ever gotten to actually enjoying country. idk if its because this is actually really good or if its just that this list has been training my ears for but i actually really enjoyed. silly and charming ass album, i really enjoyed why his girl always cheating on him and standing him up? idk whats up with that tho. bro got no luck
8.5/10
Not quite my bag but a million times better then the stuff on modern country western stations
Fun for parties
Its ait, but not very special to me.
It's... country music. I like some country music. This one is fine, but I didn't quite make it through.
Most country records I tried to listen, I couldn't. This one is ok as a background. Sure all the songs are the same but I've been through worse. 3/5
Started off not loving it but it grew on me. Not my fav country, I’d still prefer Willie Nelson or Johnny Cash but this was good 3/5
Not my thing but cool for the style of album
fine
I enjoyed this more than I was expecting to! Very danceable and I like the lyrics!
I want to show my support for Buck Owens but the album itself isn't that great.
unexpectedly charming. and not just because of "act naturally."
Sometimes you have to listen to the real thing.
This was better than I had expected, especially the first side. I didn’t care for the ballads, but, Trouble and Me especially, the upbeat stuff was good fun.
Got a soft spot for old school country
This was very cute. Streets of Laredo made me HOWL because I finally got to put the Wedding Planner song connection together. I loved it. This is definitely a sitting on the front porch album. I'm glad it's only 30 minutes - that's all it needs and while everything kind of sounds the same, it was still a nice album.
J'ai vraiment beaucoup aimé l'album. Pour l'époque, J'ai trouvé que Buck Owens a bien réussi à imposer son style pour une approche très originale avec des sons de country vraiment sympas qui s'écoutent même de nos jours. C'est vrm très bien mais peut être un peu répétitif, en tout cas album de country incroyable
Mildly entertaining. I slightly enjoyed it. Kind of fun for a country album.
Actually much more fun than I thought it would be, wham bam
Rock solid musicians who’ve developed their sound by playing countless honky tonks laying down 14 finely crafted country pop songs in 32 minutes. Listening to this is like watching an absolute master at work. Every band who actually wants to earn a living making music should study this album.
Good ol' twangy country. i liked most of the songs. tears in my beer songs. i especially liked "Tiger by the Tail", "if you fall out of love with me", "Cryin' time" and always the excellent "Memphis".
Undoubtedly one of the greatest country albums of all time, maybe the greatest. This one album is better than almost every other country artists' greatest hits. This album influenced the 70s with the singing style like George Jones, Merle Haggard, etc. It influenced the 80s with the guitar picking like Dwight Yoakam, Jerry Reed, etc. It influenced the 90s with the steel guitar like Clint Blank, Mark Chesnutt, etc. Just incredible to think what this album did for country. Not a bad song on this album.
A classic example of Classic County Western alblum when Country Western was a thing. I took me back to a time i was too young to remember. A bunch on songs brought a smile. Particularly Wam Bam. I also kept expecting to hear Theres a tear in my beer ... This alblum is a fine example of why enjoy this exercise. Gonna let the Good Times Roll
Nope
I feel like my grandpa would have loved this fellow. It’s a little to honky tonk for me, but some lyrics are hilarious. Wham Bam is a particular favourite!
Well, good old Buck and his Buckaroos … never heard of him. I loved it 👍
Just a solid country album. I was familiar with the title track but the entire record had me engaged and smiling ear to ear. I wish that there was a bit more meat to chew on with this record, as it lacks emotional depth, but as a surface-level piece of art it's good!
7.5/10
I've Got a Tiger By the Tail was honestly not as bad as i was expecting it to be. I haven't exactly heard the greatest things about this album from this site as many people aren't huge fans of what it does so i expected to hate it too. But in actuality, it wasn't much worse than most other contemporary country music albums. Sure, it's nothing special and pretty cheesy and the songs do have same face syndrome but the music still sounded fine enough, it was pretty well produced and it did breeze by at just 31 minutes so it never got super tedious. I also thought Owens' voice was decent even if he did sound like Goofy at times. This album isn't great but i was expecting quite a lot worse. Best Song: Memphis Worst Song: A Maiden's Prayer
I don't mind it, but it sounds like so many other old country albums that I'm just not that interested. Perhaps I was forced to watch too much RFD TV as a kid.
Not an old timey country music fan, but a lot of very recognizable songs
1965 right in the sweet spot for country being the US of As pop favourite. I like this album, it sounds familiar and it's easy to listen to. Will I listen again, like lots on the list probably not. I like the fizzy old production and the chugging rhythms. Decent
Definitely hear the early rock n' roll cross pollinating here. I liked it better than I expected
Oh dear, country!
Yay first country album! This was fun from the first song - ye haw!
This guy’s not doing so well with the ladies. Not totally sure I listened to the right version of the album? A crooner. Archetypal, but, for me, meh
I'm from the generation where Buck Owens was playing kind of a parody of himself on Hee Haw, so I always have to adjust my attitude when I hear his actual music and realize just how good he was. I was happy to see this album on the list of 1001 recommended I hear before I die, because it's truly entertaining and certainly influenced a lot of the country and even some of the rock (see Creedence Clearwater Revival) that would follow. If Buck Owens had been big in the 90s, he'd no doubt have at least three (like Blur or Beck) or four (like Bjork) albums on this list.
Country music is such a hollow shell these days, but back in Buck Owens' day, it was still something. There's a few great songs here, and a few duds, but this is a solid collection all around, with a real working-class feel. Favorite track: "Streets of Laredo," although this is not my favorite version of that song.
I think it says something that my favorite song on this album has no lyrics (a maidens prayer). I find his voice quite annoying.
This is your classic swanky honky tonk type of country. Solid lyrics and true and clear tone and playing.
4.5
Always been a big fan of buck Owens and his Bakersfield sound. I've never heard this album but I readily knew the title track and "Streets of Loredo" pretty well, but i found myself appreciating pretty much most of this album especially the trio "If You Fall Out of Love With Me", "Fallin' for You", "We're Gonna Let the Good Times Roll" And Don Rich's fiddle on "A Maiden's Prayer" is poignant and effective. (8.8) ★★★★
A cool country record, although very of its time. 3.5 stars
I think this album is pretty good. I'd heard it before and was a little bit lower on it the first time I heard it, but it's nice classic country. Buck is a good songwriter with good and often funny lyrics, and the guitar work is cool. It does sag a bit in the middle, but fisnishes strong. Highlights for me are the title track, "Streets of Laredo", "Crying Time" and the cover of Chuck Berry's "Memphis". 3.5 stars.
Buck and his Buckaroos have a tiger by the tail but Prince has a lion in his pocket that I’ve been told is ready to roar. Which is better? There’s only one way to find out… FIGHT!!!! *one minute later* Oh what a surprise it’s a massacre. Prince and his lion wins.
A 1965 honky-tonk album with a title that sounds like it could be a microaggression doesn't usually catch my attention for the right reasons, however this is a pleasant surprise. It helps that it's capped at 30mins, but the storytelling and sincerity of this album do a lot of heavy lifting. I'll likely never listen to it again, but I'm glad I listened to it before I died
GOING IN: Quite hopeful LISTENED WHILE: walking the dog FAMILIARITY: New to me SKIP RATE: Skipped half of it REPLAY VALUE: Might come back to it DISCOVERY CURVE: Warmed up nicely ALBUM ARC: Pretty even, consistent VERDICT: Fair enough BODY'S VERDICT: Toe tapping situation FAVOURITE TRACK: My Rating: 3 I like country music, and I can hear the influence this record has had, but it's not great. Not bad, but not great.
This one is probably a victim of it's age at this point. Just really basic, old country music. And unfortunately, with the exception of Act Naturally, this album is not Fallout-core.
THEYREEEE GONNA PUT ME IN THE MOVIES
I don’t typically listen to country music, but I really enjoyed this one. Old school twang. 3.4/5.0
So this has a place…in nostalgia movies and bars in deep Texas. It’s fun and clever in spots but neither in a particularly enjoyable way. Not offensive but also far from my thing. Then a hard right. I listened to this while choring around the house and the songs Spotify delivered once the album ended were progressively more and more engaging. 3/5
A great old country album. As any old white dude will tell you “They don’t make ‘em like this anymore!”.
Who knew I would enjoy this album as not my normal vibe! However it was a fun uplifting album enjoyed
A little too much Honky and not enough Tonk. I was suprised that "Act Naturally" was first sung by Buck vs Ring.
Solid country album, but not something I’d put on usually. Catchy melodies, but nothing too crazy
The opening track "I've Got a Tiger By the Tail" is canon classic country, and I've always found it a little cheesy, aside from the surprising and grim lyrical imagery of "losing weight and ... turning mighty pail". (Wait, is this song about about addiction or depression, or both? Not really.) Aside from knowing that the lead track was a huge country to pop crossover hit, and that this album was released in 1965 (It's getting a little late for country music of this level of shallow whimsy by this year) I knew little else and was skeptical but hopeful that listening and research would reveal in fact that this album has a rightful and rational place in the project list. Listening through, without researched context, showed two easy-to-slot categories of songs: the sad numbers, each with amazing, thoughtful, careful songwriting, clever turnarounds, and sweet, relatable lyrics, and then the upbeat songs that make a bee-line for the dancehall with no pause for sympathetic or deep contemplation. The former, I loved and felt that any modern country ballad is just a derivative. The latter, especially given the nuance of easygoing demeanor hiding a contemplative depth of the slow songs, became hard to forgive for their abject simplicity, save for the assumed context that these were dance songs (no time for thinkin'). The sparse instrumentation makes things even more simplistic, which leaves nothing to hide for already-simple songwriting. Before casting judgement before research, I held out hope that charming Buck was not just a simple hick, but his rigidity to form had some basis similar to other emergent genres whose apparent simplicity was more of a limitations-as-rules bound form. Namely, reminiscent of Run-DMC, Jungle, and of course, Buck's clear influence from early Rock and Roll. Concerning Rock and Roll, any cheese smells emitted from the songs of Chuck Berry and the like were forgiven to energy, sweat, and rhythmic sophistication. So, I realized what we had here was probably the first country rock music, as a genre. (My duty of research following listening said this was true.) The instrumental formation of the Buckaroos ensemble is clearly bound by a directive to present Buck's songs in a stark, no-frills manner: guitar, bass, now-you-hear-it-now-you-don't steel guitar, and backbeat-ing drums. Buck Owens did this deliberately as a rebellion against the string-section-heavy music coming out of Nashville at the time. Buck was working Bakersfield. California(!) Even hearing the name 'The Bakersfield Sound' (as a sub-genre of country music), I imagined some Bakersfield, Texas or Tenessee. The California Central Valley seemed an impossible location for a whole 'sound' to emerge from. Reading revealed: Merle Haggard was there too! This Bakersfield Sound is precisely defined by the instrumental choices heard on this album, and in particular, an inclusion of a backbeat, which Nashville at the time forbade. I like country. I like old country. I like learning about the history of country. I was deeply pleased to have been presented an album that is clearly an important predecessor to the country we hear today. I don't even just mean modern radio-country, but also want to give Buck Owens clear credit for paving the way for Wilco, Neko Case, Sturgill Simpson, and Drive By Truckers, to name a few downriver. It took me a second to realize where and when I was, but I guess that's how the did things down in Bakersfield in those days. As a casual listener, I'd otherwise give this album a right-down-the-middle two-and-a-half stars. Half cheese and half heart. Given the context and history, I would almost warrant it a four, but I'm aiming to define a subjective truth for my rankings, and the questions, 'Did I enjoy it, in the end?', and 'Would I listen again anytime soon?' bore me down to a three. Like I said, I enjoyed half, greatly. I might not listen again anytime soon, or I might find myself at the bar, playing the jukebox with "Let the Sad Times Roll On" and on that day, in my tears and beers find this album to be five. Questions I'm going to ask of each album: - Do/Did I own this prior? Nope - If so, how has this day in the project changed my view of the album? n/a - Otherwise, do I look forward to listening to this again? As I said above, given the right time and place, yes. But otherwise, maybe not. - Is this album's inclusion on the list justified? Absolutely.
My grandparents owned a little dive bar, and I remember these songs from the jukebox. It's a whole lot of memories. And Buck Owens - what a guitarist.
A lot of this sounded like a parody of a country album. Not for me I'm afraid. I understand that the covers of these songs are all better than the originals. So maybe a great songwriter, but not a fantastic album. 2⭐️
GTA San Andreas Honky Tonky! Ga hem alleen niet opnieuw luisteren denk ik
Classic country via Bakersfield, not Nashville. Good mix of honky-tonk stompers and tear in my beer sadness. Don Rich was a guitar virtuoso, but his voice didn't do much for me. Doyle singing Streets of Laredo gives it the sadness is deserves.
Never can you go wrong with Buck Owens. This is a standard country twang from the 1960s Top Track: Fallin' for You
I’ve always appreciated Buck Owens, ever since I was introduced to him via an interview with Jon Fishman from the band “Phish”. I really dig this old school style of country, from the 50s, 60s and 70s. This is real country at its finest.
The older people think he sucks because of he haw but he actually doesn't suck at all
Charismatic twang makes this a breeze.
"This influenced all country!" Well I don't enjoy country, so this guy is now an enemy.
I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would and even recognized several songs (I’m not a country fan). That said, the production was pretty bad.
The official soundtrack for putting on your best pair of shit kickers and Stetson hat.
Cowboy ditties. Pleasant if forgettable.
HONKY and TONKY
Nice mood and era sound. Not really for me. Streets of Laredo stood out to me.
Pretty good old timey country music. A good blend of upbeat twangy stuff and soft slow stuff. The songs, although short, felt fresh. Standout Songs: I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail Let the Sad Times Roll On Wham Bam We’re Gonna Let the Good Times Roll Memphis Act Naturally
Day732 - i’m a big fan of the bakersfield sound and buck owens. buck’s twangy voice influenced one of my favorite country singers dwight yokum. crying time is a fantastic song
Strong album, good songs, but not something I would revisit soon
Didn't think i'd like it as much as I did.
Hokem Pokem cowboy shizzle. Very vanilla disposable stuff.
Mate, get the hint - she doesn't like you anymore. Move on. A couple of stars for the influence but the same song, with slightly different lyrics, in slightly different time, 14 times over, gets a bit tedious.
I don't care for it. It sounds old and hokey. That isn't its fault, really, time just did that to it.
Old time country
Great old time country
Wham Bam, thank you mam. Is this where the phrase comes from?? Damn. Seems like this might have been groundbreaking, didn't mind listening to it, wasn't inspired, but it passed by without upsetting me particularly.
Country, 35 eme album =>1/5
Classic country LP stuff: extremely short, dense with songs that are either great to immediately stand out or good enough to be pleasant and never bog down the album. It just so happens that Buck Owens is way more fun than most other country stars of his era. The version on streaming is the 1995 streaming version that includes live versions of "This Ol' Heart" and "Act Naturally" from [???], which are both whatever but again whenever I hear "Act Naturally" all I can think is 'damn Buck Owens was good'.
I’ll never like country
Its probably a country classis i dont know. The first half is rough to say the least. It gets listenable at the end but it doesnt hold enhough content to me. Some songs repeat the same message and i feel like if it cut half the songs and kept the good ones it would be a better album.
Honestly not bad for country-ish music. It's kinda cute and catchy. Not something In would listen to, but still
Yeah, no. It's just some country.
Run-of-the-mill country music. I prefer the back half of the album. Cryin' Time is great and became a classic thanks to Ray Charles. Wham Bam is funny af! 3.1
Not my type of music - too much of a country twang. A few standards, but I prefer versions by other artists.
I've got the Tiger by the Tail es un temazo, su mayor éxito. Originado por el slogan de una gasolinera (no sean mal pensados) El bueno de Buck tuvo mucha influencia en el country , para muestra el Streets of Bakersfield con Dwight Yoakam. La sorpresa es Memphis, la versión del clásico de Chuck Berry, suena muy bien.
The best part about getting a country album is always that I don't ever really hafta think too hard about it. I'm really never too particular about my country music. Is there pedal steel? Yep! Is there fiddlin'? Yep! Is there singin' about heartbreak? Yep! And it's not that I can't ever have deeper thoughts about country music; that last Willie Nelson album my group got proved as much. But typically, as long as it has it the stuff I said "Yep!" to above, I'm pretty darn happy. And I gotta say, I'm pretty darn happy about this album. To me, country music (at least this kind of old country music) is a genre that all comes down to the singer. Most of the songs sound the same from album to album, and more often than not they're written by other people. This is the kind of shit that people wind up hating country music for. Me, I just enjoy the consistency. But the singer's where it's truly make or break — 'coz if you can't believe their performance telling these stories, then the music doesn't stand a chance. I think Buck Owens is a good singer, but I'd say I'm more amused by his performance than I'd say I actively believe in it. Buck Owens reminds me a lot of the lighter, "funny" country singers out there. Like, he's not on the same level of comedy as Cledus T. Judd or Ray Stevens, but his voice would fit right in. In fact, the first time I ever heard Buck Owens was on a Cledus T. Judd song, "First Redneck On The Internet". His voice just has this wink and a smirk to it on the more upbeat tracks; there were a lot of spots where I heard John C. Reilly singing as Dewey Cox in 'Walk Hard'. And it's this voice in particular I can tell people took a lot of inspiration and influence from. The more downbeat songs, the ones about heartbreak, his voice is good on those, though not too different from others I've heard. And it really is that that I like about this album. Even if he's never explicitly singing comedy tracks, it adds an air of levity that I really enjoy. I can tell, if he'd been a more typical singer, I still would've had a good time with this album — but not nearly as much. (And so I won't have spent this entire time focusing solely on Buck, I wanna take a second to give his Buckaroos their flowers, too. "A Maiden's Prayer" is purely instrumental, and it's a truly lovely track. Like, damn, I could seriously listen to these guys play all by themselves and I'd be just as into it.) Honestly, I think the only thing I really wanna knock this album for is the mixing. It's your very typical sort of early/close-to-mid 60's mix, which, y'know, I'm not sure if it was recorded on a two-track machine or not, but it sure sounds like it. Y'know, it's the kind of recording that's just fine when it's mixed for mono, but stereo? The only option you really have there is to slap one track in one ear and the other in the other, so you'd better enjoy only hearing the vocals in your left ear. I've seen at least one review on this website pull the whole album down to a 2 over this mixing, but let me tell you: I've heard worse. It's more of a soft 60's mix, where it's more evenly balanced, than they'd typically expect. Y'know, it's not as bad as some Beatles stereo mixes I've heard, lemme tell you that much. So, yeah: it's a country album as a country album does. It's just got that little extra Buck Owens flair that helps it stand out from all of the others my group's heard. Which is absolutely not nothing, let me tell you. But, yeah: I'm a simple gal with simple taste in country music, and this more than satisfied me. You've sure as heck got me by the tail, Mr. Owens. Indeed, as Cledus T. Judd once said: "You **are** the man."
Some good ol' country, simple as. Solid 4 Stars.
With a lot of bias, I’m at a 4.5 that I’ll bump up to a 5. When I was a kid, one of the things I distinctly remember involved my dad playing old Hee Haw reruns on TV. Hee Haw is an old country music variety show, with a lot of probably poorly aged skits, but it was WILDLY popular when it was running, with just about every country music star of the era making at least one appearance. It was like SNL for country stars, and honestly, I feel like I should go back and watch an episode after listening to this. Buck Owens was one of the co-hosts of the show for a long time, so I knew I recognized his face from something when this album popped up. However, I kinda just remembered him as a TV host more than anything. I’m pleasantly surprised to find he wrote a lot of these tracks, many of which would go on to find later success when other, more established artists (such as Ray Charles) would cover them for their own albums. Buck Owens doesn’t have a great singing voice, but he does have a great voice for this old style of country music, where the lyrical imagery is a little bit exaggerated to enhance a comedic or sad effect & to conjure up more fruitful imagery in the brain. Buck Owens is more of a singing narrator here, with the instrumentals (including a lot of lovely steel pedal guitar) carrying most of the tone, though I do think Buck sounds really nice on a couple of these tracks. His lyricism is pretty good here, with only an occasional pitfall of repetition. I do think a lot of these are just sad country songs, but there’s no shame in that style for 1965. Ultimately, it just worked for me. If you’re predisposed to like this style of country music, or just the soundscape of this era, you’ll probably enjoy this one. If you hate it, or you’re just sort of bored by Buck Owens’ slightly exaggerated twang, then the ceiling for this is probably a 3. Personally, it’s probably closer to a 4, but just because this conjured up some nice memories for me (& because I don’t think there’s actually a bad track here), I’m gonna bump it up to a 5 with a lot of bias. I just had a really nice time listening to it, and I think it’s a fine example of this “Bakersfield” style of country.
I'd like to like this more but it sounds SO formulaic.
This isn't my genre, and perhaps I was just in a good mood, but I low key loved this.
It's a nice album for Christmas Eve, "IGaTbtT" is one of the best country albums of the '60s. Every song stands out on its own. "IGaTbtT" isn't perfect, but it's still worth listening to. Merry Christmas, everyone. 4 stars for "I've Got a Tiger by the Tail".
Pretty good. Nothing spectacular but a solid country album.
Good
"I've Got a Tiger By the Tail" is an album by American musician and singer-songwriter Buck Owens and his Buckaroos band. Country and rockabilly are the Wiki-listed genres. The album is noted for the California Bakersfield sound which is country music developed in the middle to late 1950's in Bakersfield, influenced by rock and hillbilly music. The band is Buck Owens (vocals, guitar), Don Rich (Telecaster guitar, fiddle, vocals), Doyle Holly (bass, guitar, vocals), Tom Brumley (pedal steel guitar, guitar), William Cantu (drums), Mel King (drums), Bob Morris (bass, vocals), Jay McDonald (pedal steel guitar) and Jelly Sanders (fiddle, guitar). Commercially, the album reached #43 on the US Billboard Album Chart and #1 on the US Country Chart. Buck Owens' loud tenor vocals open the album in the self-titled "I've Got a Tiger By the Tail." Ticking drums and Don Rich's twangy Telecaster guitar. A great solo too. Backing vocals flush out the song. He's stuck in a wild relationship with a woman he can't control. "If You Fall Out of Love With Me" is in waltz time and not close to the only waltz we hear. Great harmonies. The pedal steel guitar in the forefront. He doesn't want to know if she stops loving him. "Fallin' For You" picks up the pace. A pedal steel guitar intro and that twangy guitar again. They bring out the fiddle in another waltz "The Band Keeps Playin' On." Owen tells the tale of a man whose partner leaves him at a dance while the band keeps playing on. "Cryin' Time" won two Grammy's for the Ray Charles' version but this is the original. Great harmonization. An acoustic guitar and pedal steel guitar mix. Owen tells tales of troubled romances, troubles lives, living fast and the repercussions and cowboys in short, tight songs with his high tenor voice. Don Rich's twangy Telecaster guitar sound really stands out. But, so does the pedal steel guitar and fiddle. There's an equal mix of waltz and rock-timed songs as well as country and rock sounds. Excellent backing vocals. The album and music set the stage for the country style and themes that would be popular for years to come. This is a very good album that everyone, no matter their musical preference, should enjoy.
So I guess this is included because it’s ’Bakersfield country’ / hillbilly music. I’m hoping that means it’s the only one. Ploddy steel twangy guitars. Not my least favourite country but I don’t like it at all.
Sounds older than it is but I quite liked it.
Didn't overstay it's welcome, which is nice.
Відверто не моя музика, але разок прогнати можна і якогось роздратування під час прослуховування не було.
Сильно не моє.
not my cup of tea but not hard to listen to, either
Wow. One thing I don’t like is country music and the next two things are steel guitar and a Les Paul guitar. This one has it all! Even listening to Memphis and Act Naturally was rough.
Honky Tonkin' goodness. 3.5 stars
I’ve always liked this song “Memphis” and for some strange reason enjoy his voice. But this is not something I can listen to maybe one song at a time can’t take a whole album of it.
Ok, maybe I'm into country and western but this album is full of short, sweet jams.
country gold
This is what I think of when I think of country music. Not bad but I could only listen to it occasionally. Doesn’t really suit the vibe of rainy England in December
skip
он приятный но миллион повторений и кантри + депрессивные отношения
I'm already struggling; this caught me on the wrong day. Playlist Additions: - I've Got a Tiger By the Tail - Wham Bam
Not into country music, so this album is not for me at all
Im sure this was influential for country music but it didn't influence me to like county music. In fact I like modern country more than this
Classic, high quality country.
Nice
Kinda fun.
Cryin’ Time always gets me 🥲
Country still sucks. Maybe you can't keep a woman because you treat them like shit.
That was interesting. Never did much country music, this was fun though. My ears say 3, I like his fun stuff, the super sappy stuff not so much. But I'm giving it a 4 because it also made me laugh! Especially Wham Bam! First it's matrimony, then it's alimony. Almost spit my drink out.
I dislike country but this is a hilarious album. The fsct this dude put put wham bam thank you mam its epic. Just that song earned him my 3 stars
Well, I wasn't sure whether I loved or hated this album until the cover of Memphis Tennessee came on and I remembered that there are NO Chuck Berry albums on this list! Chuck did that song so much better... Apparently Buck was a huge influence on Dwight Yoakam. And I'm supposed to be impressed?!
Lots to unpack with this core Country album. The tail of Buck Owens' fight with Nashville-based Country™ led to his creation of the Bakersfield sound. That sound would go on to influence so much music coming out of the valley shortly after. We wouldn't be familiar with The Monkees, CSN&Y, Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young and more without Buck's influence. 4/5
Woof
Wasn’t that into this
guilty pleasure
Certainly not the sort of thing I'd usually be caught dead listening to, but it's an interesting listen. There's a thick cultural American-ness to this era of Country music that's a bit difficult to those of us who weren't there, either geographically or chronologically. It's all this white-Christmas picket-fence nostalgia that never translated properly overseas. Like, I can't get over how *weird* this flavour acoustic honky-tonk sound gets. Buck is very much an epitome of this here - that country-man warble, singing a collection of half-funny, half-depressed staples to play at the hoedown. This isn't really a diatribe about the album, but I was hoping more exposure to Country via this list would help appreciate it more, but it just makes it sound more alien. And these Buckaroos embody this feeling more than anything. It's an interesting parcel of love letters to a world that I am not privy to, and it's worth delving into by that right, but I wouldn't find myself tossing this album on for fun. fav tracks: We're Gonna Let the Good Times Roll, Streets of Laredo
0 songs added to my favorites. Would listen again if asked to.
Thoughts before listening: I know that Buck Owens is considered one of the greats of the country genre, especially what has been called the "Bakersfield sound", but I do not believe I have ever listened to him. I am expecting an enjoyable album of old style country. Review: Okay yeah, this is quintessential honky tonk country. This is the sound that inspired many of the country musicians I enjoy: Merle Haggard, Dwight Yoakam, Marty Stuart, etc, and Buck was a big influence on the country rock sound of the 70s as well. For a perfect example of Buck's reach to the rock world, the Beatles covered "Act Naturally" which is on this album. Overall, this is a very good example of the genre that I am glad to have heard. 4-stars
I’m glad to finally have a name for this subgenre of country music: “the Bakersfield sound”. I really like it.
Cool album
and all i gotta do is sahh acct ajoisdfjoasvkom
I like classic country but this seems a bit camp. When I think of Buck Owens, Hee Haw instantly comes to mind so it's hard to separate that from the artist. Plus honestly I'm team Roy Clark anyway :)
2.92
Listens: 1 Standout Tracks: We're Gonna Let the Good Times Roll Man do I really dislike Country music. This was ultra twangy, tacky, stereotypical country music. And just as well, the sound on this album is described as hillbilly music. God. Shoot me in the head. Hard pass.
This is what I imagine vintage country sounding like. Strong singing, homespun-sounding lyrics about love and life, lots of space in the arrangements for the steel guitar to resonate. Goes by quickly and smoothly.
Šta reći da nije već rečeno... Mrzim country. Ovo se skoro može slušati. Eto.
Fun!
I’m giving this album 5 stars, not because it’s perfect or because I’ll have it on repeat for the next month, but because I feel like it needs to be on this list and because I’m glad to have heard it before I die. It’s a delightful old-school country album — something this list doesn’t have enough of imo.
Album No. 0074 on my list. I could imagine that this album is probably on this list because it is the classic country sound in perfection. Perhaps it was one of the first ones perfecting this sound or so, I dunno. Unfortunately, it sounds so much like country that it rather feels like a parody than anything serious. In addition, things are somewhat repetitive and a little dull. Maybe it's just not for me and country fans will be very happy to see this on the list. "I've Got A Tiger By The Tail", and "Memphis" were the songs I liked best and I'll add them to my playlist. 2/5 stars.
This is actually pretty fun. You can kind of hear the origins of folk like Dwight Yoakum (and Wheeler Walker sounds just like him, except more crass) all over this. I love the musicianship on this record, even if some of the songs are pretty goofy. I’m rounding up on the score cause it’s markedly better than a 3-star record. It’s probably not quite a 4 for me, but I might actually listen to it again at some point, which has been one of my hallmarks for 4-star records. 3.7/5
This was a fun easy listen, high 3.
Definitely had its ups and downs, decent overall. This album is what people who hate country think all country sounds like.
I'm trying to decide if I love or hate this. Seriously cheesy country with all the country tropes coursing through it. But those tropes include some fun guitar work and a toe tapping groove. Hokey lyrics and that vocal twang isn't my taste, though. "Let the sad times roll on" is about the worst that country has to offer. "Fallin' for You" was much better. And Streets of Laredo I know more from Dave Bromberg, but that's a great track. I've been all over the spectrum on this one, but I think I'm landing on 4. A best of breed album of a genre I'm just not that into overall. But I gots to give props for how it grabs me more often than I'd ever have expected.
Absolutely not the kind of thing I'd choose to listen to, I'd sneer at the thought. Having said that, this album was really fun. Despite the tales of woe he's singing about the music is uplifting and cheery and had me toe-tapping along the whole way through. I'm surprised at both the album and my reaction to it.
This is fine. Nothing offensively bad here.
This sure is country. I found it hard to differentiate from other old country albums I've been given by the list.
2 stars I’ll never listen to this again and a lot of it sounded the same to me. But I didn’t hate myself for listening to it and it was short so I appreciate it for that. Just does nothing for me.
Not my favorite style of country but it wasn't all bad. I did feel that the beats were really repetitive so I got tired of it even if it was just a half an hour long.
Ihan ok, ei mitään ihmeellistä. 2,5/5.
Haven't heard of him before. A couple of songs were fun but I find the overall vibe of some country albums overwhelming. This music is not popular here so listening to a whole album in this genre feels like I'm listening to a parody album and I can't shake that feeling off 2/5
3/10
Not for me. 1/5
Catchy tune
Never would’ve listened to this, it’s fuckin fire
Mercifully, none of the songs are very long
Not a country fan, but respect to the album that started the honky tonk sound and fun bit of trivia that Buck Owens recorded act naturally before the Beatles.
Довольно стандартный кантри, хонки-тонк, голос у Оуэнса не самый лучший, нет особого разнообразия. Но приятно слышать живой, аутентичный кантри-инструментал. Но в целом ничего особенного. 2/5
I usually find country music all sounds the same to me, and this album is especially like that — it’s hard to tell the songs apart. That might sound harsh, but I want to remember the sharp, crisp sound of the guitar. I like “Trouble and Me.”
Classic- loved it.
That was fun. Never listened to a full album of Buck Owens. My bad!
I’ve never listened to Buck Owen’s. For some reason I thought he was a parody artist or something? Wrong again! This was so good xoxo
I have no ear for this style and era of music. Short but felt endless.
appreciate buck owens for inspiring so many bands i like, but they'll take it from here
1.5
and just like that I'm nine years old again and trapped in a grandparent's living room while my dad does yard work or something my least favorite of the three? versions of Streets of Laredo I've heard in this project although I appreciate the deep voice
Was mostly into the last few tracks but maybe that’s just when I started paying more attention to the instrumentation.
Good not great album
Sweet n crispy guitar licks. Buck is mournful & happy all at once.
It's a full heaping serving of country with a side of country all smothered in country gravy raised to an exponent of country.
Hokem Pokem cowboy shizzle. Very vanilla disposable stuff.
I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail I really like Buck Owen’s voice - it’s very country, but it has a pleasingly laconic drawl to it. And I really like this album as 30 minutes at the zenith of the mid 60s Bakersfield sound, with the twanging Tele, shuffling rockabilly/rock’n’roll beat and a lot of very catchy songs that would become standards, oscillating between toe tappers and maudlin country sadness. I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail, Let the Sad Times Roll On, If You Fall Out of Love With Me, Fallin’ for You, We’re Gonna Let the Good Times Roll, Streets of Laredo, Cryin’ Time and the cover of Memphis are all great songs, but I actually liked all of it. It's hard to beat this an example of this particular type of music at a particular time, so I think it just edges into a 4, and I’ll definitely comeback 🐅🐅🐅🐅 Playlist submission: Streets of Laredo
You have to say he puts his all in to the title track, with a foot-tapping beat, and classic country bassline, and really sweet reverbed guitar solo twanging all over the shop. All the elements carry through for best part of the album, to deliver something very enjoyable. I much prefer this to George Jones. I guess I'm a Bakersfield rather than Nashville guy. I like the alignment to upbeat rock n roll (and a nod to Chuck Berry with 'Memphis'), the focus on excellent and clean guitar licks and bends, and the jollity most of it. It doesn't set my world on fire, some is hackneyed; but it's a collection of high quality and enjoyable country/rock n roll songs.
No. 328/1001 I've Got a Tiger By the Tail 3/5 Trouble and Me 3/5 Let the Sad Times Roll On 3/5 Wham Bam 3/5 If You Fall Out of Love with Me 3/5 Fallin' for You 3/5 We're Gonna Let the Good Times Roll 3/5 The Band Keeps on Playin 4/5 Streets of Laredo 3/5 Cryin' Time 3/5 A Maiden's Prayer 3/5 Memphis 3/5 This Ol Heart 3/5 Act Naturally 3/5 Average: 3,07 At times a really date Country album. Still had a good time listening to this.
bad album
Album 953 of 1089 Buck Owens - I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail (1965) Rating : 2.5 / 5 I’ve always liked Buck and his Bakersfield sound - that twangy, straightforward, good-time country that just feels authentic. He’s got his own style, and it’s always easy to recognize. That said, this particular album didn’t hit quite as strong as I hoped. The songs are fine, the guitar work (especially from Buck himself and Don Rich) is enjoyable, but the production feels a bit thin. It’s listenable, sure, but it just never really gets going in a way that sticks. It’s one of those records that sits right in the middle - not bad by any means, but nothing that stands out either. Still, Buck Owens’ charm and easygoing delivery keep it from ever being a bad listen. Even when it doesn’t sparkle, it’s got that down-home feel that makes his music hard not to like.
i did not need to hear this before i die 💀
Really not my cup of tea, although I can appreciate the album and its impact it had on music at the time. That being said for me it wasn't very enjoyable, particularly as I'm not a fan of the style, and I had a hard time listening to this one.
If you love Country/Western music this was probably amazing, if you hate it this will be a source of ridicule. I thought this was fine but fairly boring in a stereotypical C/W sound. 2.5/5
I got this right after skunk anansie and its funny to juxtapose them against each other. Its hard to listen to this and understand what people who do or did enjoy this in earnest were up to in their lives. Im guessing there was a lot of beer and pretty much only white people. It probably was influential or something but it almost sounds like a parody. An odd listen that I just think doesn't hold up in time.
Une très jolie découverte!
3.5 (Genre birth - Bakersfield) I get for many this isn't their style but Bakersfield country wouldn't exist without Buck. No buck no George Strait or Alan Jackson. Steel guitars are great. It was a legendary album and influenced genres far beyond country (especially to include rock).
Not much for country in general but this old 60s twangy shit aint so bad. 2 stars
Solid classic country.