Daniel Donato, photo by Jason Stoltzfus Daniel Donato is keeping busy as ever. Last night, July 17, the ace axeman and his ...

On this Day in 1966, Buck Owens took "Think of Me" to No. 1 for six weeks and ignited thee rise of the Bakersfield sound.

** FILE ** Country music legend Buck Owens performs in Bakersfield, Calif., Wednesday, June 29, 2005, during a taping for Country Music Television.

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Owens may be best known as the smiling country singer who co-hosted Hee Haw, but he also sang original tunes. A new collection, Buck Owens: Bound for Bakersfield, goes back to the days before ...

One of those Dust Bowl refugees was none other than Buck Owens himself. Born Aug. 12, 1929, as Alvis Edgar Owens Jr. to sharecroppers from Grayson County, Texas, Buck Owens claimed in his 2013 ...

Buck Owens, 76, one of country music’s leading stars and a host of the long-running television variety show “Hee Haw,” died March 25 at his home in Bakersfield, Calif.

Buck Owens, seen here with Victoria Hallman, died in 2006 at age 76. (Courtesy of Victoria Hallman) Hallman’s music career started at age 6 when she signed a record contract in Nashville.

Buck Owens (Courtesy of Victoria Hallman) And when it came to quality time together, Owens liked to keep it simple. Hallman revealed he preferred having dinner while watching TV with a plate of ...

Buck Owens was the top-selling country artist of the 1960's, and his musical style- called the Bakersfield Sound after his adopted hometown- countered the slick overproduction of Nashville ...

Country Music Memories: Buck Owens Earns His First No. 1 Single On June 15, 1963, Owens landed his first No. 1 single: the song "Act Naturally." LOOK: Country Artists With Stars on the Hollywood ...

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.