Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 2247
Land area (2000): 198.090793 sq. miles (513.052778 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 198.090793 sq. miles (513.052778 sq. km)
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 37.413786 N, 83.696582 W
Headwords:
Owsley, KY
Owsley County
Owsley County, KY
Wikipedia
Owsley may refer to:
- Owsley (surname)
- Owsley Stanley (1935–2011), also known as Owsley or Bear, "underground" LSD chemist and early Grateful Dead soundman
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Owsley (musician), the stage name of Will Owsley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- Owsley (album), the 1999 album by the above-mentioned singer-songwriter
- Owsley County, Kentucky, a county in Kentucky, United States
- Augustus Owsley Stanley (1867–1958), Kentucky politician; campaigned against alcohol prohibition in the 1920s; grandfather of Owsley/Bear
William Reese "Will" Owsley III (March 6, 1966 – April 30, 2010), known professionally as Owsley, was an American singer and songwriter. His two solo albums have won critical acclaim, and his debut album was nominated for a Grammy Award, as was the song "Threaten Me With Heaven" (posthumously). Owsley was also a record producer, a recording engineer, and the guitarist in Amy Grant's touring band.
Owsley is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Owsley, released on Giant Records in 1999. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album.
Critics have noted musical influences from 1970s pop rock, including The Beatles, Todd Rundgren, and The Cars.
Owsley recorded the album in his own home studio, funded largely by his work as guitarist in Amy Grant's touring band.
Owsley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alvin M. Owsley, American diplomat
- Douglas W. Owsley, forensic anthropologist and Division Head of Physical Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
- Frank Lawrence Owsley, American historian
- Monroe Owsley, American actor
- William Owsley (1782–1862), Kentucky politician in the mid-19th century
Usage examples of "owsley".
Ryan noticed that Owsley had a poor complexion with weeping sores around the mouth.
On the left side, in the second row of pews, Jim Owsley turned and scowled across at the sudden noise, glaring at Mildred.
Jim Owsley yelled, fingering the butt of his Hawes Montana Marshal blaster.
He clipped the nerve ends of the muscle, making Owsley whimper with the sudden electric pain, making him drop to his knees on the chipped planks of the floor.
It rubbed against the legs of Jim Owsley, who promptly shot it through its angular skull.
Maya was launched into a red-mist rage, half running at Owsley, clawing toward the man's face.
His eye was caught by the little blaster glinting in the mud, but he knew that Owsley would shoot him down before he could reach it.
He could have gone into any kind of legit work and made a mint, but he had these quirks: One, he hated his old man, who was a retired FBI agent, and two, the guy he most wanted to be like was some flower-power drug guru from the sixties, a guy named Owsley, who came out of the psychedelic movement.
A very painful experience in every way, a proper end to the sixties: Tim Leary a prisoner of Eldridge Cleaver in Algeria, Bob Dylan clipping coupons in Greenwich Village, both Kennedys murdered by mutants, Owsley folding napkins on Terminal Island, and finally Cassius/Ali belted incredibly off his pedestal by a human hamburger, a man on the verge of death.
You followed in the footsteps of Owsley Stanley, and you've never been successfully busted, and you're supposed to be richer than hell.
A very painful experience in every way, a proper end to the sixties Tim Leary a prisoner of Eldridge Cleaver in Algeria, Bob Dylan clipping coupons in Greenwich Village, both Kennedysmurdered by mutants, Owsley folding napkins on Terminal Island, and finally Cassius/Ali belted incredibly off his pedestal by a human hamburger, a man on the verge of death.