Owens first recorded “Streets of Bakersfield” for the 1972 compilation album Buck ‘Em Volume 2: The Music of Buck Owens. More than a decade later, he was slated to perform a duet with Merle Haggard, ...

Anyone with ears and a taste for good country music knows that Dwight Yoakam learned much of what he knows from Buck Owens and other prominent Bakersfield Sound artists. However, by the time he was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People enjoy the music of Buck Owens at the Buck Owens Crystal Palace in Bakersfield in 1998. (Lori Shepler / Los Angeles Times) ...

Buck Owens, a pioneer in California’s honky-tonk country music scene who gained considerable celebrity as co-host of TV’s “Hee-Haw,” died Saturday at his home in Bakersfield. He was 76. Owens had ...

"This publication was created by the staff of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum"--Title page verso. "Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Bakersfield sound : Buck Owens, Merle ...