Calvin Owens

Calvin Owens

Calvin Owens

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Top Songs

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Stop Lying In My Face
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You Are My Baby Doll
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What Was I Thinking
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The Highway Is My Way
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Somebody Tell Me

Albums

  • Houston Is the Place to Be

    Apr 2007 • 14 songs

  • Stop Lying In My Face

    Aug 2005 • 11 songs

  • The House Is Burning'

    Jun 2002 • 12 songs

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Calvin Owens

Biography

An inventive and creative trumpeter, bandleader, and composer/arranger, Calvin Owens spent many years as musical director with B.B. King's various touring bands. But beginning in the late '90s, he led his own bands and recorded under his own name. Born on April 23, 1929, Owens grew up in Houston's Fifth Ward neighborhood, also known as Sawdust Alley because of a nearby sawmill. He became interested in learning to play the trumpet after hearing his New Orleans-raised mother talk about Louis Armstrong. He worked at a local bowling alley to save enough money to buy his first trum...
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