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Apr 7, 2021 · NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country songwriter Bill Owens, who was a mentor and early songwriting partner to his niece Dolly Parton and helped start her career in country music, has died. He was 85.
Apr 8, 2021 · Bill Owens was a country music songwriter and guitarist who helped his niece Dolly Parton launch her career and wrote songs with her. He also worked at Dollywood and was an environmentalist who fought to restore the American chestnut tree.
William Earl Owens (September 28, 1935 – April 7, 2021) [1] was an American country music songwriter. He was the uncle of Dolly Parton. [2] . Over the course of his career, he wrote or co-wrote more than 800 songs, [3] including “ Put It Off Until Tomorrow ," which he co-wrote with Parton. The song won the 1966 BMI Song of the Year award. [4]
Bill Owens (born September 25, 1938) is an American photographer, photojournalist, brewer and editor living in Hayward, California. He is best known for his photographs of suburban domestic scenes taken in the East Bay and published in the book Suburbia (1973).
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- September 25, 1938 (age 85), San Jose, California, U.S.
Jan 29, 2022 · A powerful voice for racial equality in Boston and beyond, Mr. Owens died Jan. 22 in a skilled nursing facility in Brighton, to which he had moved a few months earlier from his longtime Mattapan...
- Bryan Marquard
Jan 26, 2022 · BOSTON (AP) — Bill Owens, the first Black state senator in Massachusetts, who fought for racial justice and economic equality and was one of the first to call for reparations for the descendants of Black slaves, has died, his family said in a statement.
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Bill Owens is known for his documentary series Suburbia, which captures the lifestyle and culture of suburban families in the 1970s. He has exhibited his works at MoMA and other institutions, and has published several books of his photographs.
