Owens, Buck (1929—)
Bucking Nashville country music conventions, the Bakersfield-based Buck Owens helped put his town on the musical map with his spare, twangy, rock-influenced sound that shunn...
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Ken Nelson, a longtime talent scout at Capitol Records who produced dozens of No. 1 country music hits and helped push Buck Owens and Merle Haggard to country stardom in the 1960s, has died. He was...
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Ken Nelson, a longtime talent scout at Capitol Records who produced dozens of No. 1 country music hits and helped push Buck Owens and Merle Haggard to country stardom in the 1960s, has died. He was...
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Today is Sunday, March 25, the 84th day of 2007. There are 281 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 25, 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state...
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Country radio has had a rough go of it in the big city.New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco all have seen country stations fail in recent years.But the return of country to the FM airwaves this ...
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Is Brad Paisley joking again, or is he serious?It's tough to tell sometimes. This is the guy with a hit song about a country boy wanting to check a woman for ticks.But Paisley seems off guard when ...
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Depending on how you look at it, Marty Stuart is either a genius for saving all those cowboy boots, rhinestone suits and flashy string ties, or he's a pack rat with a taste for garish clothes.His c...
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With "The Feminine Mystique," Betty Friedan gave rise to the modern women's movement, striking a chord that continues to ring four decades later.Friedan and Coretta Scott King gained fame as crusad...
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With "The Feminine Mystique," Betty Friedan gave rise to the modern women's movement, striking a chord that continues to ring four decades later.Friedan and Coretta Scott King gained fame as crusad...
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