🎙️ Dwight talking on Buck Owens’s Funeral . @dwightyoakam Thank you so much Buck! 🎸 . March-25-2006 . On this day in 2006 Alvis Edgar Owens Jr., known professionally as Buck Owens left this World. He was the lead singer for Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music chart. He pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound, named in honor of Bakersfield, California. Buck Owens Jr. American singer and guitarist died in his sleep of an apparent he

Buck Owens was born Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. on August 12, 1929, on a farm in Sherman, Texas -- he died on March 25, 2006. Owens had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band the Buckaroos. They pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound, a reference to Bakersfield, California, the city Owens called home and from which he drew inspiration for what he preferred to call American music. While Owens originally used fiddle and retained pedal steel guitar into the 197