UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 01: Photo of Buck Owens (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) While hailing from Texas, Buck Owens fell in love at first sight with the town of Bakersfield, California, when his job as a truck driver first took him through the San Joaquin Valley in the late 1940s. He moved his family there and—along with his backing Buckaroos—helped cultivate the “Bakersfield sound”. It was a livelier antidote to the slickly produce…
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