Buck Owens, RIP

Country music legend Buck Owens died Saturday at his home in Bakersfield, California. He was 76 years old. (Wikipedia bio here, AP obit here.)

Owens already had a long career behind him by the time I started watching him on Hee-Haw in the '70's. (That was back in the good old days, before Hee-Haw got all citified.) His hits included songs like "Act Naturally," "Together Again," and "Tiger by the Tail." For more on Owens's life and career, see this 1999 Salon.com article, "The Baron of Bakersfield."