With its year-round pleasant climate, the little municipality of Hollywood, California, became the center of the motion picture universe. From Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore to Charlie Chaplin and ...

On June 15, 1963, Buck Owens landed his first No. 1 single: the song "Act Naturally." A clever take on feeling down on your luck, the song stars a narrator who feels he's so good at being heartbroken, ...

Buck Owens' legendary country career spanned five decades. During that time, he made his name as a singer-songwriter, bandleader, solo artist and crossover television star (he was one of the hosts of ...

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, ...

On the morning of October 30th, 1973, one day before Halloween, Buck Owens and his Buckaroos, including guitarist Don Rich, entered Owens’ Bakersfield studio to record the song that would serve as the ...

Omnivore Recordings has had a fruitful relationship with Buck Owens Enterprises, with numerous releases over the last 12 years. The latest comes as a request from fans, who want the albums from the ...

This article was originally published in the December 1988 issue of SPIN. We’re republishing this on the 15th anniversary of Owens’ death. Buck Owens has spent the last few years looking after ...

In 1986, Dwight Yoakam delivered a rhinestone-studded debut LP, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. To anyone with a sense of country-music history, it was obvious Yoakam, a Kentucky native who broke into ...