RIP, Buck. I am bummed by this one....i've managed to see most of my music idols in concert, but never got to see Buck Owens. Thought about going out to bakersfield a few times in the last two years, but figured I had time.

Here's a link to a wonderful radio feature about buck:
http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2004-08/a-2004-08-17-29-1.cfm

But don't listen yet. First, listen to that "act naturally," then read the following:
“Act Naturally,” recorded in 1963, started Buck Owens’ streak of 15 consecutive Number One country singles, and twenty-one number ones in total. Buck Owens’ died at 76 Saturday (March 25), hours after taking the stage at his Crystal Theater in Bakersfield, California, and playing some of the songs that rocked Nashville on its boot heels back in the 1960s.

Listening to “Act Naturally” more than 40 years after its release, it’s hard to imagine that song could annoy anyone, but as VOA’s Katherine Cole reports, the man with the red, white and blue guitar was considered a maverick in country music in 1963."

Then click on the listen link, and I think you'll hear the story as the writer intended.