Buck Owens Live From Austin TX (2007)

This man from Sherman Texas probably bestknown as the widegrinning rube on Hee Haw for so many years started a country music revolution Or more accurately a counterrevolution It was called the Bakersfield Sound He and fellow revolutionary Merle Haggard were cranking out raw harddriving honkytonk music that stood the countrypop coming out of Nashville on its head When Buck Owens and the Buckaroos would launch into Ive got a tiger by the tail it s plain to see the packed crowds would be on their feet and headed for the dance floor Performed at Austin City Limits on October 23 1988