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 ...
They stood for decades as Bakersfield's two greatest country music stars, and long after their deaths, they still wear those crowns. Merle Haggard and Buck Owens each came from hardscrabble beginnings ...
"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 ...