{"id":1316960,"date":"2019-11-26T07:01:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T14:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1815104"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:01:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T14:01:06","slug":"excuse-me-i-think-youll-like-this-buck-owens-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/excuse-me-i-think-youll-like-this-buck-owens-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Excuse Me, I Think You\u2019ll Like This Buck Owens Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/shelburnec\/\" title=\"Posts by Craig Shelburne\" rel=\"author\">Craig Shelburne<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n12m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Charley Crockett, the rootsy Texas singer-songwriter who\u2019s toured the world this year, is a big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/buck-owens\">Buck Owens<\/a>. \u201cBeing out on the road, man, one day Buck\u2019s catalog just clicked with me and I became obsessed with his whole deal,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n<p>For his newest album, <em>The Valley<\/em>, Crockett covered his musical hero\u2019s classic hit, \u201cExcuse Me (I Think I\u2019ve Got a Heartache).\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FH5_SiTDWBA?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FH5_SiTDWBA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI just gotta brag on Texas because even though he\u2019s kind of the father of the Bakersfield Sound, he was born in Northeast Texas. He\u2019s one more Texan that we get to claim,\u201d Crockett says with a laugh. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe really dominated, did something different for country music that was entirely outside of the Nashville machine. And I respect the hell out of that, man, and he\u2019s just got a different sound. I mean, it\u2019s hard to find a bad Buck Owens song. I really love his entire catalog. I\u2019ve learned a great deal about how to sing Country &amp;Western from listening to Buck records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in Virginia, Crockett picked up a Buck Owens record that included \u201cExcuse Me (I Think I\u2019ve Got a Heartache),\u201d which the legendary artist wrote with Harlan Howard and carried to No. 2 on the country chart in 1960. Of course, both Owens and Howard are now members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"1bccd3a3\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/Charley-Crockett-2-Lyza-Renee-1574776571.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/Charley-Crockett-2-Lyza-Renee-1574776571.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/Charley-Crockett-2-Lyza-Renee-1574776571.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/Charley-Crockett-2-Lyza-Renee-1574776571.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/Charley-Crockett-2-Lyza-Renee-1574776571.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/Charley-Crockett-2-Lyza-Renee-1574776571.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/Charley-Crockett-2-Lyza-Renee-1574776571.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/Charley-Crockett-2-Lyza-Renee-1574776571.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"Charley Crockett 2 Lyza Renee\" class=\" js-srcset-img shortcode-image \" alt><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photocredit\"> Lyza Renee <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got a record player on the bus and that song really stuck with me,\u201d Crockett says. \u201cBuck was really the king of singing happy-sounding Country &amp; Western that was actually really dark-themed. That whole song is like, \u2018They just don\u2019t know how lost I feel without you. My teardrops never see the light of day.\u2019 Or, \u2019My lips they lie and paint a bright tomorrow\u2026.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sharing his hometown of Benito, Texas, with late country legend Freddy Fender, Crockett himself sings with a plaintive voice \u2014 and not just country music. He\u2019s versatile in the blues and even does a bluegrass segment in his set. But what some may hear as country, others may recognize as the blues. There\u2019s no difference to Crockett, who actually took the song to\u2026 well, to heart, when he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart.org\/en\/news\/2019\/02\/21\/up-and-coming-texas-singer-lucky-to-be-alive-and-still-singing-the-blues\">heart surgery<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I love about old-school blues and honky-tonk is the way that they could slip that really sad, dark emotion into the major key and it\u2019s some of the most rewarding music to listen to as a listener,\u201d he says. \u201cTo me, that\u2019s what makes blues and honky-tonk really the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MTFeLm8eO4A?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MTFeLm8eO4A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1815104\/excuse-me-i-think-youll-like-this-buck-owens-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Craig Shelburne 12m ago Charley Crockett, the rootsy Texas singer-songwriter who\u2019s toured the world this year, is a big fan of Buck Owens. \u201cBeing out on the road, man, one day Buck\u2019s catalog just clicked with me and I became obsessed with his whole deal,\u201d he says. 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