Obit: Buck Page, 84; Singer Founded the Original "Riders of the Purple Sage"
Buck Page, the founder of the original Riders of the Purple Sage, a western band whose music conjured up a bygone era of the open range and cowboys on horseback, has died. He was 84.
Page died of natural causes Aug. 21 in his apartment at the Burbank Senior Artists Colony, said Tim Carpenter, a friend who works at the colony.
Page, who sang and played 21 instruments, had his first solo CD, "Right Place to Start," released in December. And in July, he performed before a crowd of several thousand in Scottsdale, Ariz., at a benefit celebration of the National Day of the Cowboy.
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Buck Page, the founder of the original Riders of the Purple Sage, a western band whose music conjured up a bygone era of the open range and cowboys on horseback, has died. He was 84.
Page died of natural causes Aug. 21 in his apartment at the Burbank Senior Artists Colony, said Tim Carpenter, a friend who works at the colony.
Page, who sang and played 21 instruments, had his first solo CD, "Right Place to Start," released in December. And in July, he performed before a crowd of several thousand in Scottsdale, Ariz., at a benefit celebration of the National Day of the Cowboy.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituar...0,2758572,print.story?coll=la-home-obituaries