Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dwight Yoakam performs at RodeoHouston, March 7, 2026, for the first time in more than two decades. (Cassie Stricker) The tight ...

Anyone with ears and a taste for good country music knows that Dwight Yoakam learned much of what he knows from Buck Owens and other prominent Bakersfield Sound artists. However, by the time he was ...

Owens first recorded “Streets of Bakersfield” for the 1972 compilation album Buck ‘Em Volume 2: The Music of Buck Owens. More than a decade later, he was slated to perform a duet with Merle Haggard, ...

NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Dwight Yoakam first met Buck Owens when he visited Owens' Bakersfield, Calif., radio station KUZZ before appearing at a local fair in 1987. Sign up here. Now, Yoakam is paying ...

The tight jeans, exaggerated fringe and Bakersfield sound could mean only one thing — Dwight Yoakam was back on the RodeoHouston stage. In fact, it could have been 2004, the last time Yoakam took a ...