The Buck Owens Collection 1959-1990 [Box] by Buck Owens

Pros: A lot of Buck for your bucks

Cons: Too short

The Bottom Line: Essential Buck Owens - all the big hits are here and much more

Review: Buck Owens was more than simply the co-host for 17 or so years of HEE HAW. He was a dynamic songwriter, an effective singer and a terrific guitar player who played on sessions for many of Capitol's biggest stars of the 1950s. In a sense, he also ...

Pros: The guy's great on the Telecaster. The cds are fantastic.

Cons: Not enough live performances, that is where Buck really shines.

The Bottom Line: The elder country set and the hipster crowd will enjoy this living legend. Owens straddles the line between them and has a hell of a lot of fun doing it!

Review: Unfortunately, Buck Owens is better known to most Americans for his role as the cornpone cohost of Hee Haw than for his pioneering country music work on Capitol in the late '50s and '60s -- as a solo act, in duets with Rose Maddox and others, and with...

Pros: All the hits, beautifully mastered

Cons: No surprises or rarities

The Bottom Line: Buy this & own all the hits!

Review: The "Bakersfield Sound" washed over America like a tidal wave at a time when Nashville had become homogonized & completely lost it's edge. Artists like Tommy Collins, Wynn Stewart, Red Simpson, Kay Adams, & later Merle Haggard, hit the charts with a...