A repost by request: I first heard of Tony Owens in a book on New Orleans R&B by Jeff Hannusch. Hannusch had mentioned that Owens was now a carriage driver over by Jackson Square, but the picture used in the book was so bad it was impossible to tell what he looked like. Eventually, I found the 45 that is in my jukebox post and I took down to the square to see if I could meet him. It took several tries but eventually I did meet him and in the course of chatting he told me about this disc. It was a bitch to find and of course there was no cheap copy anywhere, but eventually I managed to find one within reason. One of these days I'll get Tony to autograph it.
"Tony Owens has been singing professionally for over 35 years. He
started singing as a child in a little Baptist church in an old New
Orleans neighborhood called Zion City.
Tony recorded a smash hit song in the 1970s titled
"Confessing a Feeling" that skyrocketed in the national R&B charts.
He now has a CD on the market on the London-based Grapevine record
label, titled I Got Soul. (
Now out of print) Commenting on his singing style, Tony says,
"If I can touch someone's heart in some way, if I could bring back a
pleasant memory, if I could make someone smile, if I could open
someone's eyes with a song, then I believe God would smile upon me, and
that is how I measure my personal success! I want people to say 'When
you hear Tony sing, you don't just hear him, you feel him.'"
A repost by request: I first heard of Tony Owens in a book on New Orleans R&B by Jeff Hannusch. Hannusch had mentioned that Owens was now a carriage driver over by Jackson Square, but the picture used in the book was so bad it was impossible to tell what he looked like. Eventually, I found the 45 that is in my jukebox post and I took down to the square to see if I could meet him. It took several tries but eventually I did meet him and in the course of chatting he told me about this disc. It was a bitch to find and of course there was no cheap copy anywhere, but eventually I managed to find one within reason. One of these days I'll get Tony to autograph it.
"Tony Owens has been singing professionally for over 35 years. He
started singing as a child in a little Baptist church in an old New
Orleans neighborhood called Zion City.
Tony recorded a smash hit song in the 1970s titled
"Confessing a Feeling" that skyrocketed in the national R&B charts.
He now has a CD on the market on the London-based Grapevine record
label, titled I Got Soul. (Now out of print) Commenting on his singing style, Tony says,
"If I can touch someone's heart in some way, if I could bring back a
pleasant memory, if I could make someone smile, if I could open
someone's eyes with a song, then I believe God would smile upon me, and
that is how I measure my personal success! I want people to say 'When
you hear Tony sing, you don't just hear him, you feel him.'" 