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Buck 'Em! (The Autobiography of Buck Owens) Book Series Softcover Written by Buck Owens Born in Texas and raised in Arizona, Buck Owens eventually found his way to Bakersfield, California Unlike the vast majority of country singers, songwriters, and musicians who made their fortunes working and living in Nashville, the often rebellious and always independent Owens chose to create his own brand of country music some 2,000 miles away from Music City - racking up a remarkable 21 number-one hits along the way In the process he helped give birth to a new country sound and did more than any other individual to establish Bakersfield as a country music center In the latter half of the 1990s, Buck began working on his autobiography Over the next few years, he talked into the microphone of a cassette tape machine for nearly one hundred hours, recording the story of his life