Dusty Owens
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Songwriter
Dusty Owens was an Ohio-born country singer and songwriter who fronted Dusty Owens and the Rodeo Boys on WWVA Wheeling Jamboree broadcasts and the Cincinnati country-radio circuit in the 1950s. He is credited as the author of the bluegrass standard “Once More.”
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- Fronted Dusty Owens and the Rodeo Boys on WWVA Wheeling and the Cincinnati country-radio scene in the 1950s.
- Credited as the author of the bluegrass standard “Once More.”
- Bill Monroe and the Osborne Brothers both recorded the song; it has since become a fixture of the touring bluegrass repertoire.
- Wrote “Make Up Your Mind,” cut by Patsy Cline and Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper.
