Buck Owens Archives • Americana Highways

Music Reviews: A Live Buck Owens Compendium, plus Tami Neilson, Maria Muldaur, Jeffrey Foskett, and a Rockabilly Anthology

July 13, 2025November 8, 2025Jeff Burger0

Singer/songwriter Buck Owens, who died in 2006, was the quintessential exponent of country music’s Bakersfield Sound, a rock-infused, back-to-basics style that burgeoned in the 1950s around Bakersfield, California. His music influenced countless artists, ranging from Dwight Yoakam, whose albums include Dwight Sings Buck, to the Beatles, who recorded a version of “Act Naturally,” Owens’s first […]

REVIEW: Buck Owens & His Buckaroos “Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long”

June 25, 2025June 26, 2025John Apice0

Buck Owens & His Buckaroos – Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long – On Stage 1964-1974 – 3-Disc Set This ambitious 3-CD set provides the Buck Owens (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006) fan with 75 live performances (recorded between 1964-1974) for the first time on CD. The PR boasts 25 previously unissued […]

Music Reviews: The Chieftains, Dead Horses, Sensational Country Blues Wonders!, 3 Pairs of Boots, Robin Lane, Martha Spencer, and Buck Owens

August 29, 2022September 2, 2022Jeff Burger0

The Chieftains, The Foxhunt: San Francisco 1973 & 1976. This concert collection from the Chieftains is the ninth release from the late audio engineer and LSD maker Owsley Stanley’s archives, which have also yielded excellent live albums from artists like Tim Buckley and Johnny Cash. The two-disc, two-and-a-half-hour set delivers a pair of well-recorded 1973 […]