Buck Owens

Buck Owens – Bakersfield Gold: Top 10 Hits 1959–1974 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:54:21 minutes | 987 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Omnivore Recordings

Forty six Top 10 Hits (including 19 #1’s) on double-CD, triple-LP, and Digital.

Buck Owens is a country music icon. As one of the best-selling artists of the 1960s, he accumulated numerous Top 10 hits with 19 of them reaching the #1 top spot on the charts. Now all of Owens’ Top Ten hits from 1959–1974 have been compiled on Bakersfield Gold: Top 10 Hits 1959–1974.

Collecting 46 tracks, this release is available as a double-CD, triple-LP, and Digital release. Featuring new liner notes from Grammy®-nominee, Randy Poe (author of Buck ‘Em: The Autobiography Of Buck Owens), this is the first collection to compile Buck’s Top 10 hits on vinyl, with a limited edition gold vinyl version for independent retail.

Bakersfield Gold is the ultimate collection of Owens’ biggest hits, with The Buckaroos, Rose Maddox, Buddy Alan, Susan Raye, and more. With its availability across all formats, this is a perfect introductory collection for the new fan, and an incredible ride for those who already love the magic of Bakersfield.
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Buck Owens & His Buckaroos – The Kansas City Song (Remastered) (1970/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 25:50 minutes | 880 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Omnivore Recordings

Throughout Omnivore Recordings’ 12-year relationship with the Buck Owens Private Foundation, one request from the fans was clear and consistent-to make Buck’s late-’60s/early-’70s releases available again as stand-alone reissues. Omnivore is proud to answer that call and announce 9 titles to be released throughout the summer and fall of 2021.
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Buck Owens & His Buckaroos – I Wouldn’t Live in New York City (Remastered) (1970/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 29:52 minutes | 996 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Omnivore Recordings

Throughout Omnivore Recordings’ 12-year relationship with the Buck Owens Private Foundation, one request from the fans was clear and consistent—to make Buck’s late-’60s/early-’70s releases available again as stand-alone reissues. Omnivore is proud to answer that call and announce 9 titles to be released throughout the summer and fall of 2021. The albums will be released as they were originally issued and for the first time, appear in their original configuration on HIGHRESAUDIO, mastered from the original analog tapes in 192kHz, 24bit.
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Buck Owens – Live From Austin, TX (2007/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 29:42 minutes | 610 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New West Records

Maybe it was an epiphany of sorts. As Buck tells it, “One day I was watching Austin City Limits and Dwight Yoakam was on, then he dedicates the program to ‘Buck Owens.’ So I said, I’m going to see what this kid is like.” It wasn’t long after that he was on stage with Dwight singing his old hits. Buck was bitten by the bug to return to music, after calling it quits almost ten years earlier. This man from Sherman, Texas – probably best-known as the wide-grinning rube on Hee Haw for so many years – started a country music revolution. Or more accurately, a counter-revolution. It was called “The Bakersfield Sound”. He and fellow revolutionary Merle Haggard were cranking out raw, hard-driving honky-tonk music that stood the country-pop coming out of Nashville on its head. When Buck Owens and the Buckaroos would launch into “I’ve got a tiger by the tail, it’s plain to see….!” the packed crowds would be on their feet and headed for the dance floor. Along the way Buck inspired none other than The Beatles to record their first country song, his classic “Act Naturally,” and the master of soul, Ray Charles, to immortalize one of the best-known country songs ever, “Crying Time”.
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Buck Owens – (It’s A) Monsters’ Holiday (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 24:42 minutes | 269 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sundazed Music – Modern Harmonic

While the title track of this 1974 album might mislead you, it’s the only Halloween related song here, the rest is prime Buck! Aside from the hit title cut, it includes a clever twist on Shel Silverstein’s “The Cover Of Rolling Stone” and plenty of exemplary bites of the Bakersfield Sound!
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