I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail

A fine, short, country album. I did like how low his voice went on Streets of Laredo. 2.6/5 -> 3/5

Isn't "I've got a tiger by the tail" the "cleaner" version of a very VERY racist song line?
I really should have disallowed country from this project for myself; I rarely enjoy these.
Highlight: act naturally (because of the beatles, ngl)

Well, good old Buck and his Buckaroos … never heard of him. I loved it 👍

I've Got a Tiger By the Tail was honestly not as bad as i was expecting it to be. I haven't exactly heard the greatest things about this album from this site as many people aren't huge fans of what it does so i expected to hate it too. But in actuality, it wasn't much worse than most other contemporary country music albums. Sure, it's nothing special and pretty cheesy and the songs do have same face syndrome but the music still sounded fine enough, it was pretty well produced and it did breeze by at just 31 minutes so it never got super tedious. I also thought Owens' voice was decent even if he did sound like Goofy at times. This album isn't great but i was expecting quite a lot worse.
Best Song: Memphis
Worst Song: A Maiden's Prayer

This one is probably a victim of it's age at this point. Just really basic, old country music. And unfortunately, with the exception of Act Naturally, this album is not Fallout-core.

With a lot of bias, I’m at a 4.5 that I’ll bump up to a 5.

When I was a kid, one of the things I distinctly remember involved my dad playing old Hee Haw reruns on TV. Hee Haw is an old country music variety show, with a lot of probably poorly aged skits, but it was WILDLY popular when it was running, with just about every country music star of the era making at least one appearance. It was like SNL for country stars, and honestly, I feel like I should go back and watch an episode after listening to this. Buck Owens was one of the co-hosts of the show for a long time, so I knew I recognized his face from something when this album popped up.

However, I kinda just remembered him as a TV host more than anything. I’m pleasantly surprised to find he wrote a lot of these tracks, many of which would go on to find later success when other, more established artists (such as Ray Charles) would cover them for their own albums. Buck Owens doesn’t have a great singing voice, but he does have a great voice for this old style of country music, where the lyrical imagery is a little bit exaggerated to enhance a comedic or sad effect & to conjure up more fruitful imagery in the brain. Buck Owens is more of a singing narrator here, with the instrumentals (including a lot of lovely steel pedal guitar) carrying most of the tone, though I do think Buck sounds really nice on a couple of these tracks. His lyricism is pretty good here, with only an occasional pitfall of repetition. I do think a lot of these are just sad country songs, but there’s no shame in that style for 1965.

Ultimately, it just worked for me. If you’re predisposed to like this style of country music, or just the soundscape of this era, you’ll probably enjoy this one. If you hate it, or you’re just sort of bored by Buck Owens’ slightly exaggerated twang, then the ceiling for this is probably a 3. Personally, it’s probably closer to a 4, but just because this conjured up some nice memories for me (& because I don’t think there’s actually a bad track here), I’m gonna bump it up to a 5 with a lot of bias. I just had a really nice time listening to it, and I think it’s a fine example of this “Bakersfield” style of country.

Сильно не моє.

2.92

It's a full heaping serving of country with a side of country all smothered in country gravy raised to an exponent of country.

Me, yesterday morning : "Been a real run of dross the past couple of weeks. Come on algorithm, give me something good."

Oh.

I got that "what am I doing with my life" when I told my friend that I am listening to this. Anyway, good album.

Some decent songs on here, and I can see how it could have been influential. But overall it's "Wham bam, thank you mam, not for me"

Classic country sound, which is not my preferred genre, but I do love a twangy Telecaster. I enjoyed this, but not quite enough to return to it ever.

Hey, it's Ringo's song! Other than that little surprise at the end, this wasn't for me. I'm going to be generous and say it's a low two, not a one, but maybe that's just because I had Napalm Death recently.

Not a bad country album. Short, but didn't move too fast. 3/5

Felt like I was in a honky-tonk twangy Tarantino movie, just keep that tiger away from my tail!

I really really enjoyed this album! Super catchy and I love the sound

Reminds me of music my grandfather listened to in the car. Happy memories

5 ⭐️

We've got both types: country and western.

Skipping the schmaltzy Nashville strings and opting instead for a straight from the road house honky tonk style with huge twangy guitars, soaring pedal steels, Appalachian fiddle, and a jumped up bass, this is a landmark of rock-n-roll infused California country meant for dancing and boozing and weeping. Great performances, especially the honey sweet tenor vocal and Don Rich's spanking telecaster sound. Classic songs that have been played a billion times, but none are my favorites in the genre, other than the bonus track live 'Act Naturally', whoooo boy!

Not the biggest Country fan but this wasn’t that bad. Took me a couple of tracks to get into it though.