Buck Owens was one of the most influential artists in the history of country music. Every country fan should know these songs.

Johnny Cash had a gift for authenticity and a presence that was hard to define but impossible to deny, Bakersfield country music legend Buck Owens said Friday.

LOS ANGELES - Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits such as Act Naturally and brought the genre to TV on Hee Haw, died Saturday. Owens, 76, died ...

Buck Owens, 76, one of country music’s leading stars and a host of the long-running television variety show “Hee Haw,” died March 25 at his home in Bakersfield, Calif.

Dwight Yoakam, Garth Brooks, Taylor Swift and many other stars played here. But the epicenter of the "Bakersfield Sound" is ...