'Bye, Buck |
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Buck Owens was a different kind of country music star: He played Carnegie Hall, not the Grand Ole Opry; he lived for Bakersfield, not Nashville. Owens, the "Act Naturally" singer-songwriter who made a music mecca of a central California farming town, and a weekly event of a cornpone TV variety show known as "Hee Haw," died Saturday at his home, according to his Website. He was 76. And, yes, as if there were ever any doubt, Owens' home was in Bakersfield. Bakersfield, California, is where the Texas-born Owens moved in 1951. And it was where he helped give rise in the 1950s and 1960s to the so-called "Bakersfield Sound," a twangier, harder-driving country.
Date: 03/26/06 08:02 More information |
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