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I've Got a Tiger By the Tail (album)

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Released
  
March 10, 1965

I've Got a Tiger by the Tail (1965)
  
Before You Go (1965)

Producer
  
Ken Nelson

Genre
  
Country music

Length
  
31:59

Release date
  
10 March 1965

Label
  
Capitol Records

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Recorded
  
December 1964, Capitol Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA

Artists
  
Buck Owens, Buck Owens and His Buckaroos

Similar
  
Buck Owens albums, Country music albums

I've Got a Tiger by the Tail is an album by Buck Owens and his Buckaroos, released in 1965. It reached Number one on the Billboard Country charts and Number 43 on the Pop Albums charts.

Contents

It was re-released on CD in 1995 by Sundazed Records with two bonus tracks, both live performances recorded in Bakersfield, CA at the Civic Auditorium in October 1963. The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Style

The album was an example of Bakersfield sound, country music developed in the mid to late 1950s around Bakersfield, California, and influenced both by rock and what was called hillbilly music. The album featured the distinctive sound of Don Rich playing the telecaster.

Reception

In his Allmusic review, critic Cub Koda called the album "Owens' Bakersfield honky tonk sound at the height of its freight-train rumbling powers." The album was Billboard's first #1 country album of the year, in 1965.

Track listing

Side one
  1. "I've Got a Tiger By the Tail" (Harlan Howard, Buck Owens) – 2:12
  2. "Trouble and Me" (Howard) – 1:54
  3. "Let the Sad Times Roll On" (Owens, Red Simpson) – 2:14
  4. "Wham Bam" (Buck Owens, Bonnie Owens, Don Rich) – 2:01
  5. "If You Fall Out of Love With Me" (Owens, Owens) – 2:15
  6. "Fallin' for You" (Owens, Owens, Rich) – 2:01
Side two
  1. "We're Gonna Let the Good Times Roll" (Owens) – 2:15
  2. "The Band Keeps Playin' On" (Red Simpson, Fuzzy Owen) – 3:02
  3. "Streets of Laredo" – 2:55
  4. "Cryin' Time" (Owens) – 2:30
  5. "A Maiden's Prayer" (Bob Wills) – 2:33
  6. "Memphis" (Chuck Berry) – 2:27

1995 bonus tracks

  1. "This Ol' Heart" (Eddie Miller, Bob Morris) – 1:12
  2. "Act Naturally" (Johnny Russell, Voni Morrison) – 2:28

Personnel

  • Buck Owens – guitar, vocals
  • Don Rich – guitar, fiddle, vocals (lead vocal on "Wham Bam")
  • Doyle Holly – bass, guitar, vocals (lead vocal on "Streets of Laredo")
  • Tom Brumley – pedal steel guitar, guitar
  • Willie Cantu – drums
  • Mel King – drums
  • Bob Morris – bass, vocals
  • Jay McDonald – pedal steel guitar
  • Jelly Sanders – fiddle, guitar

    • Songs

    1I've Got a Tiger by the Tail2:14
    2Trouble and Me1:56
    3Let the Sad Times Roll On2:16

    References

    I've Got a Tiger By the Tail (album) Wikipedia
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