| Homer Joy | |
| ""John Law" (Featuring BUCK OWENS)" | |
This duet with HOMER JOY(writer of "Streets of Bakersfield") and old friend, the legendary BUCK OWENS. Is a song Homer wrote about Buck and an incident that happened, in Buck's younger days as an up and coming Country Music star... Recorded by Homer Joy in 1974 on Capitol Records. The song rose to #1 in the top 300 Country Music markets...Buck recorded the song on his last pre-retirement album and it was the last song Buck Owens performed publicly, on "The Dean Martin Christmas Special" before Buck retirement in 1980... The two old friends recorded "John Law" (for what was to be a major label project for Homer Joy) after Buck came out of retirement and recorded the Homer Joy song, "Streets of Bakersfield" with Dwight Yoakam. Shortly after beginning the project. Homer Joy had his first heart attack. The years of fighting heart disease made finishing an album project a moot point... Before Buck Owen's lost his own battle with heart disease, March 25, 2006. Homer Joy promised his friend, if he survived and recieved the heart transplant he himself was waiting for. He would finish the project they had began. Six months to the day, following his heart transplant, Homer Joy was in the recording studio, keeping his promise to his old friend... The result is the new Homer Joy CD, "Someday It'll Be Country". A tongue in cheek reference to the fact that in their early years. Both men had expienced some flack from the Country Music industry, for their forward thinking songwriting and recordings... |
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