“Buck took the shuffle beat and he took the lyrics and the style of honky-tonk, and he added the spunk, the vitality of rock and roll to his sound,” music historian Bill C. Malone has said. “He had a ...

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.

LOS ANGELES — Singer Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits like "Act Naturally" and brought the genre to TV on the ...