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 ...

NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Dwight Yoakam first met Buck Owens when he visited Owens' Bakersfield, Calif., radio station KUZZ before appearing at a local fair in 1987. Sign up here. Now, Yoakam is paying ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - A longtime admirer of the style and songs of Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam has crafted a tribute to the country bard, who died in California last March aged 76. "Dwight Sings Buck," ...

Way back when, Dwight Yoakam found a way to sell hardcore hillbilly country music — that of the high nasal voice, gut-bucket guitar and fiddles — to an audience that country tastemakers in Nashville ...

The Crystal Palace, a music and dining joint in Bakersfield launched by Buck Owens — which hosted just about every country music star in America over the years — has abruptly shut its doors. The ...