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.

1974 gave Buck Owens and His Buckaroos their 23rd top 10 country album with (It’s A) Monster’s Holiday. The title track would peak at #6 on the singles chart, and it features On The Cover Of The Music City News, a re-write of Shel Silverstein’s Cover Of The Rolling Stone, adapted by Owens and Jim Shaw.

Now, nearly four decades later, the classic album returns—remastered 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. (IT’S A) MONSTER’S HOLIDAY
2. AMAZING LOVE
3. ON THE COVER OF THE MUSIC CITY NEWS
4. I LOVE
5. STONY MOUNTAIN WEST VIRGINIA
6. MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH
7. YOU’RE GONNA LOVE YOURSELF IN THE MORNING
8. KISS AN ANGEL GOOD MORNIN’
9. GREAT EXPECTATIONS
10. PASS ME BY (IF YOU’RE ONLY PASSING THROUGH)

This abundantly rhythmic, vibrantly melodic, and wholly beautiful album (which only has the one track that is Halloween-related) opens on that very same title track, the hop/skip, hauntingly-inspired (It’s A) Monster’s Holiday and the beautiful ballad Amazing Love, following those seamlessly with the aforementioned hand-clapping parody of Shel Silverstein’s Cover Of The Rolling Stone, here known as On The Cover Of The Music City News, the lush I Love and then comes the upbeat and joyous Stony Mountain West Virginia.

Up next is the contagious foot-tapper Meanwhile Back at the Ranch and the stunning balladry of You’re Gonna Love Yourself in the Morning, which is in turn followed by the soulfully euphonic Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’, the album rounding out on the yearning storytelling of Great Expectations, closing on country twang of Pass Me By (If You’re Only Passing Through).

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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