For those unaware, throughout Omnivore Recordings 12-year relationship with the Buck Owens Private Foundation, one request from the fans was clear and consistent—to make Bucks late-’60s/early-’70s releases available again as stand-alone reissues.

Omnivore is proud to answer that call and announce 9 titles to be released throughout the summer and fall of 2021.

Starting August 6th, Omnivore will put out these 9 albums, offered as standalone reissues. Each drop will consist of three albums: Sweet Rosie Jones, I’ve Got You on My Mind Again and Tall Dark Stranger, then on August 27th, they will release Your Mother’s Prayer, The Kansas City Song and I Wouldn’t Live in New York City, and then finally come October 1st, they will put out In the Palm of Your Hand, Ain’t It Amazing, Gracie and (It’s a) Monsters Holiday.

The albums will be released as they were originally issued and for the first time, appear in their original configuration on CD and Digital, mastered from the original analog tapes, and with expanded artwork & new liner notes.

Originally released in 1973, just two months after In The Palm Of Your Hand, Ain’t It Amazing, Gracie became yet another top 20 album for Owens and His Buckaroos, reaching #17 on the country album charts.

The title track would peak at #14 on the singles chart, and it features the original release of what would become a Buck Owens staple, Streets Of Bakersfield, later to become a 1988 chart-topping duet with Dwight Yoakam.

Now, nearly four decades later, the classic album returns—mastered from the original analog tapes by Grammy®-winner Michael Graves, Produced for release by Grammy®-winner Cheryl Pawelski, and featuring expanded artwork including new liner notes from author Randy Poe (Buck ‘Em! The Autobiography Of Buck Owens).

1. AIN’T IT AMAZING, GRACIE
2. LONG HOT SUMMER
3. STREETS OF BAKERSFIELD
4. SHE’S HAD ALL THE DREAMIN’ SHE CAN STAND
5. YOUR MONKEY WON’T BE HOME TONIGHT
6. I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW (THAT I LOVE YOU)
7. THE GOOD OLD DAYS (ARE HERE AGAIN)
8. OLD FAITHFUL
9. WHEN YOU GET BACK FROM NASHVILLE
10. WHEN YOU GET TO HEAVEN (I’LL BE THERE)

This vibrantly melodic, always heartfelt album opens on the joyous and upbeat title track Ain’t It Amazing, Gracie and the countrified jaunt of Long Hot Summer and backs those up with the melodious hop/skip of Streets Of Bakersville, the lonesome ballad She’s Had All The Dreamin’ She Can Stand and then the sardonic Your Monkey Won’t Be Home Tonight.

Up next is one of my own personal favorites from this album, the country/pop-tastic I Know That You Know (That I Love You) which is in turn followed by the achingly rendered The Good Old Days (Are Here Again), the old country balladry of Old Faithful, the album rounding out on the storytelling found within When You Get Back From Nashville, closing on the gently rambunctious When You get To Heaven (I’ll Be Waiting).

Available for the first time since its original album release and for the first time on stand-alone CD and Digital formats. The reissue of these latter-day Buck Owens And His Buckaroos albums is a cause for celebration!

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