AP - Mar 2, 2007
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...
More »E! Online - Apr 3, 2006
Buck Owens might be gone, but the master of the electrified honky-tonk Bakersfield Sound won t be soon forgotten. Dwight Yoakam, Garth Brooks, Trace Adkins and Brad Paisley were among the more than...
More »AP - Apr 2, 2006
Some of country music s biggest names gathered in this central California farming hub Sunday to pay tribute to the flashy cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with his honky-tonk twang. Dwight...
More »AP - Apr 2, 2006
Nearly 6,000 people showed up this weekend to say goodbye to country music legend Buck Owens, who died a week ago at the age of 76. A public viewing was held Saturday at Owens Crystal Palace, the musician...
More »E! Online - Mar 31, 2006
Even hard-livin country music legends have to take it easy once in a while. Veteran honky-tonk rocker and balladeer George Jones was hospitalized for pneumonia Thursday in Nashville, Jones label,...
More »E! Online - Mar 25, 2006
Buck Owens was a different kind of country music star: He played Carnegie Hall, not the Grand Ole Opry; he lived for Bakersfield, not Nashville. Owens, the Act Naturally singer/songwriter who made...
More »Reuters - Mar 25, 2006
Country-music innovator Buck Owens, who sold more than 16 million albums and popularized country entertainment on television as host of Hee Haw, died on Saturday at age 76. Owens died of heart failure...
More »AP - Mar 25, 2006
Some of Buck Owens hits. Excuse Me (I Think I ve Got a Heartache), 1960 Foolin Around, 1961 Kickin Our Hearts Around, 1962 You re for Me, 1962 Act Naturally, 1963 Love s Gonna Live Here...
More »AP - Mar 25, 2006
Singer Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits like Act Naturally and brought the genre to TV on the long-running Hee Haw, died Saturday, a spokesman said...
More »AP - Feb 24, 2006
This just might be the role actor John Corbett was born to play. Known for playing the handsome non-Greek boyfriend in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the philosophical radio DJ on Northern Exposure and Carrie...
More »Reuters - Jan 6, 2006
In his 1963 hit Act Naturally, Buck Owens sang, They re gonna put me in the movies/They re gonna make a big star out of me. More than 40 years later, a whole new crop of music artists better known...
More »E! Online - Dec 10, 2005
Garth Brooks is ropin in a new missus. The country crooner got hitched Saturday to fellow Nashville star Trisha Yearwood, his publicist announced to Access Hollywood. It s the perfect Christmas...
More »AP - Dec 10, 2005
Months after a proposal in front of thousands of fans, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood may be setting up their wedding bells. The couple, who live in Oklahoma, filed for a marriage license Friday in...
More »E! Online - Oct 26, 2005
Sometimes art does imitate life: Take this week s album chart, which finds Rod Stewart chasing after a younger blonde woman--Ashlee Simpson. Jessica s lip-synching sibling managed to hold off the...
More »E! Online - Aug 19, 2005
Wal-Mart will soon be ropin in Garth Brooks. The country superstar has signed a deal with the retail chain that will make Wal-Mart and its subsidiaries, Sam s Club and walmart.com, the only place...
More »Reuters - Dec 18, 2004
The third chart entry proves to be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the Billboard Hot 100 with Let Me Love You (3rd Street/J). The single moves 3-2, eclipsing the No. 4 peak of his...
More »Reuters - Oct 10, 2004
Norah Jones is no diva. For that we should be grateful. Today s so-called divas are overbearing, self-involved singers valuing personal style over serving a song, stretching notes in a show of vocal...
More »AP - Jun 9, 2004
Country Music Television s list of the 100 greatest love songs: 1. I Will Always Love You (Dolly Parton ) 2. You Were Always On My Mind (Willie Nelson ) 3. Sweet Dreams (Of You) (Patsy Cline )...
More »AP - Oct 27, 2003
Country music star Buck Owens has paid $20,000 for a piece of art created by a local artist to benefit charity. Gerri Mattson s Five-Card Stud was among the painted ponies sold as part of a statewide...
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