Buck Owens / Close Up The Honky Tonks

[scottbechler]

This is my second favorite Tom Brumley masterpiece. #1 is In The Palm Of Your Hand, and #3 is Together Again. ( Can't all be #1 at the same time!)

[jokerswild360]

The way country should be!

[MrPugsleyj]

i remember hearing buck back in the 60s &70s god i miss those days....they were the best

[johnnyhuis]

Buck Owens made his mark in country music, and made it very well! Mr. Don's Guitar playing - and voice, (I think) inspired Mr. Owens and Mr. Yoakam! Now, This is the kind of country honky tonk I like! Hey, Got a quarter for the juke box ? I wish some of the newer artist would re-visit this type of country music!! I bet that you Bakersfield Folks Enjoy This! I Do! Thanks!

[jokerswild360]

This is how all country music should be ! !

[wa1ufo]

Yesseh Captain!!

[BWoodley]

I like this and also how Dwight Yoakam makes it sound mournful and melancholy. Both versions are great!

[nbigboy3]

dont talk about yourselve like that its wrong.ok who ever you.

[theeaglesfan1]

I feel pround that I got to grow up listening to this wonderful music.....Classic country will always be close to my heart 

[celebgems]

Great song and lyrics by Buck Owens; great steel pedal. The 60's were the Golden Age of Country & the Golden Age of movies. A shout-out for this post and for Turner Classic Movies.

[2bwhiteproud]

To ALL of you KIDDIES this IS REAL Country music Kenny Chesney is NOT.

Kenny Chesney Got Rid of Renee Z he has to be Gay!

[theTrainmanmec]

ah! a breath of fresh air!!!! no x rated words here!!!!!!

[rjasin123]

can somebody bring this kind of country back? Sick of flowing haired bimbos and fairy boys.

[GregoryJohnsonJr]

@rjasin123 Whitey Morgan and the 78's

[jcraigb]

man this is pure honkytonk damn i love buck and don

[JohnnyDerge]

Hell yeah!

[TheMetty44]

Buck Owens was an Original; A voice I just love. And his songwriting had so much feeling, I could cry as if I was the one being hurt. What a great musician he was. Never will be replaced.

Marilyn, Sacramento

[bigbubba833]

Love the Twang also

[fhall56527]

One of the great Buck recordings. I was a teenager in the 60s and couldn't wait for the next Buck Owens LP. Buck and the music from Bakersfield was setting the trend and making history. I still have all that vinyl.

[magprob]

TWANG-A-LICIOUS! HA HA! I LOVE IT.

I grew up near Bakersfield. Got to see Buck Owens and the Buckaroos a few times. Merle Haggard 5 or 6 times and many more. The sixties were amazing in Bakersfield! Anyone remember the Buck Owens Toys For Tots Shows? I went to all of them. Some of the best of Merle Haggard and The Strangers. Jimmy Dean, and so many others played there.

It was a very sad day when Don got killed. Still makes me sad to this day. Kinda like the day the music died.

[klainer14]

I like the music as the artist field BUCK OWENS

[matt1284508]

Didn't like Dwight's CD at first but like becoming a Scotch drinker it's an acquired taste that gets better with listening.God Bless Dwight for keepin' Buck goin'.Would loved to have seen Buck and Don back in the '60's with their silver sparkle Teles twangin'.

[BayAreaHiker]

buck...your the man.

[donelliottay]

It don't mean a thang if it aint got that twang....

[SuperAcab666]

R.I.P Buck

So much respect to Dwight Yoakam for keeping the Bakersfield Sound alive, I´ve got the album Dwight sings Buck, and it´s really an awesome album:-DDD

[torchwoodjackharknes]

@SuperAcab666

I have to agree with you on the Dwight Sings Buck CD. What makes that album so good is that he did not try to copy Buck's sound but he made it his own, his version of Close up the Honky Tonks sent chills down my spine.

[SuperAcab666]

@torchwoodjackharknes You´re so right there, and thats why Dwight Yoakam is such a great artist, I´m a huge fan of both Buck and Dwight. I wish Dwight would perform in Denmark some day, it could be freaking hilarious:-DDDDD

[BobbyFord8]

Tim McGraw sucks.

[CyberBarrister]

@BobbyFord8 Amen. Just bad pop music with a hillbilly accent. Buck was the best. Dwight is the only real country artist left.

[WendyKS93]

I love that good old classic country honky tonk music. I never get tired of listening to it.

And Buck Owens was one of the best.

[LJH70122]

Love me some Buck Owens. May he rest in peace.

They just don't make country music like this anymore.

[notbendable]

such a great groove

[laosuwan]

this song is perfect. just perfect.

[calebzia]

that pedal steel just cuts me to the bone

[wesbjack]

Siruis radio has "Willie's Place" channel, that plays nothin' but Texas swing and honky-tonk.....from all decades. I like Johnny Paycheck's version, played there, it is a lot less twang and less whine. It has not been posted here apparently.

[dcarkhuf]

This was back in the good ol days when you could get wasted off your ass in the Saloon!

[txstoryteller]

GREAT music, and this is the country I like, NOT this modern junk that they pass off as "Country" when it is anything BUT country! FIVE stars!

[propolispills]

Classic. Thank You for posting. What a Great Country artist Buck Owens was! Underrated to say the least. What an influence he has left behind.

[torchwoodjackharknes]

Buck Owens and Don Rich were the Greatest singing duo in country music history. When Don died in 1974 that is the day that the Music died.....Till my fellow Kentuckian, Dwight Yoakam helped Buck reignited the fire again.

[ChubbyBeak]

All of a sudden I need a cold beer !

[MistyMountaineers]

Couldn't agree more!~!!!!

[mistercoors]

Buck's buddy,Dwight Yoakam,does a GREAT version of this song.

[GoldenGaleStables]

@mistercoors Indeed, he does. An awesome cover version, updated, but faithful and "country."

[prorope]

This music is the best.

Others like Justin Trevino and Jake Hooker are doing damn good with real country now days, but radio now days want to play HIP country not REAL country.

What a shame. This can be copied but never replaced.

[ringbolt9]

excellent stuff.

[0Imtheslime0]

I love this. good old Buck

[MattPled]

I love the Flying Burrito Brothers' version of this.

[Factnotfictionpeople]

What a great steel 'take-off' at the start - priceless!

[flashbell]

Old Milwaukee her I come.

[joejam1390]

Buck is such a great singer...Use to watch him on a show called.."HEE HAW"....also love his work with Dwight Yoakem

[kmcwhq]

I just LOVE this song...it is SO TWANG-A-LICIOUS

If you love the twang....you just can't get enough

[RossM3838]

On the radio pop music is the rage

We need someone to guide us through the stage

If the industry would only take a chance

Help is waitin' at the ol' Buck Owens ranch. From Buck by Keith Whitley

[MEGATRON9090]

this is the kinda of country that we all need back....George Jones is right when he say they need to give all the new singers there own name cuz there not true country..this is real country

[unstopedpiano]

@MEGATRON9090 Amen

[kmcwhq]

My absolute favorite Buck Owens song is......EVERY DAMN ONE HE DID !

Excellent......thanks much

[tronbru]

this is real country - just listen, it will nver come back again with this sound of te vocal and great steel backup

[fjmoralessanz]

great feeling !!

[blu65gibson]

Buck was the best ever.

[alfrawa]

perfect harmony between Buck and Don

[b1mfua33]

its great to hear real country!!!!

[docguitar50]

i wish i had the power never will hear the likes of this again

[josephpatrickhealey]

brilliant. Best ever.

[telemansparta]

damn it thats country