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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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