He definitely didn’t die jumping out a 7th story window in his misery:
http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1527049/heart-attack-apparent-cause-of-buck-owens-death.jhtml
Married three times, all ended in divorce.
I’ve never heard anything about him being a heroin addict.
According to some sources he had a net worth of over $100 million.
He started out broke, but did Hee Haw for over twenty years, and later recorded “Act Naturally” with Ringo Starr and several music videos with Dwight Yoakam. After his first hits, I don’t think there was much gas pumping in his life.
Oh. Wrong country guy.
You meant THAT Buck Owens.
Now I am curious who the choosed to be a loser I was talking about is.
I found who I was talking about Chet (just forgot his last name, erg)
The guy I was thinking of was a self taught Tromobone jazz player.
I found this site:
http://elvispelvis.com/suicide.htm#1
Seems all the musician suicides have one thing in common substance abuse/deppression.
Sad they could not find peace in there suffering in an alternative venue.