Buck Owens News

By PUNCH SHAW FORT WORTH - If our city ever designated an 'official' band, the Tejas Brothers would have to get some votes, based on the band's performance at McDavid Studio on Friday night.Members of the locally based quartet, fronted by lead singer and accordion player Dave Perez, are not related.

Today Yoakam has some new songs written but no plan yet for putting them in the possession of his listeners.

Son Volt swings through Greenville for a stop at The Handlebar Nov. 20. Peter Bruntnell opens.

Casey Christie / The Californian Merle Haggard and Marty Stuart have a good time warming up on the side of the stage, Saturday, at CSUB.

GO & DO What: Keep Old Glory Flying dinner and show When: 5:30-8 p.m. Saturday Where: Buck Owens' Crystal Palace, 2800 Buck Owens Blvd.; live simulcast at Fox Theater, 2001 H St.; and broadcast live on KGET-TV, Channel 17.

BMNN wrote: on Oct. 12, 2009: /CMHOF/ The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's third annual All for the Hall fundraiser, featuring distinguished talents Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Dwight Yoakam, and Melissa Etheridge, and hosted by Chris Isaak, proved to be an extraordinarily moving experience.

On the heels of his Aug. 31 release, The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again , John Fogerty will hit the road for a fall U.S. tour to belt out the gospel and country songs that influenced his musical beginnings.

25--During the course of his long career, Merle Haggard has racked up 38 No. 1 country hits, sung with George, Dolly and Willie, toured with Bob , entered the Country Music Hall of Fame, recorded with Toby Keith and publicly defended the Dixie Chicks.

Fifteen years ago, Radney Foster was dating Cyndi Hoelzle, a Nashville-based journalist who would often make him "Saturday night/Sunday morning" mix tapes.

John Fogerty, "The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again" For his first post-Creedence project, in 1973, Fogerty billed himself as the Blue Ridge Rangers, playing all the instruments himself on a set of country, R&B and gospel tunes.

Buck Owens, along with Merle Haggard, was the leader of the Bakersfield sound, a twangy, electricified, rock-influenced interpretation of hardcore honky tonk that emerged in the '60s. Owens was the first bona fide country star to emerge from Bakersfield, scoring a total of 15 consecutive number one hits in the mid-'60s. In the process, he provided ...

John Fogerty wore a country-singer outfit - including a black cowboy hat and black cowboy shirt - when he performed at the South Street Seaport's Pier 17 on Wednesday night.

Three years after his last studio album, Full Circle , Dallas' Deryl Dodd returns with Together Again , an authentic collection of honky-tonk country, Southern gospel and plenty of today's cowboy flair.

When Trace Adkins was getting started in the music business, he was given some advice by country legend Buck Owens.

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 12, the 224th day of 2009 with 141 to follow. The moon is waning.

One night in Los Angeles, some rock and rhythm-and-blues stars were jamming. Darius Rucker, of Hootie & the Blowfish fame, was there.

Wednesday, August 12th. Today marks the birth date of renowned country singer Buck Owens, born Alvis Edgar Owens.

Without a doubt, today's a festive day. August 12th happens to be the birthday of two monumental country music talents: Buck Owens and Porter Wagoner .

Honky tonk man Dwight Yoakam will sing Dixie when he performs at 8 p.m. tonight in the Mari Showroom of the Paragon Casino Resort.

Today, Art&Seek presents This Week in Texas Music History . Every week, wea ll spotlight a different moment and the musician who made it.