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Title - Bakersfield Gold: Top 10 Hits 1959-1974 [2CD]
Artist - Buck Owens & the Buckaroos

Buck Owens is a country music icon. As one of the best-selling artists of the 1960s, he accumulated numerous Top 10 hits with 19 of them reaching the #1 top spot on the charts. Now all of Owens’ Top Ten hits from 1959–1974 have been compiled on Bakersfield Gold: Top 10 Hits 1959–1974 (out October 7th, 2022 via Omnivore Recordings).

Collecting 46 tracks, this release is available as a double-CD, triple-LP, and Digital release. Featuring new liner notes from Grammy®-nominee, Randy Poe (author of Buck ‘Em: The Autobiography Of Buck Owens), this is the first collection to compile Buck’s Top 10 hits on vinyl, with a limited edition gold vinyl version for independent retail.

Bakersfield Gold is the ultimate collection of Owens’ biggest hits, with The Buckaroos, Rose Maddox, Buddy Alan, Susan Raye, and more. With its availability across all formats, this is a perfect introductory collection for the new fan, and an incredible ride for those who already love the magic of Bakersfield.

Disc 1:
1. Under Your Spell Again
2. Above And Beyond
3. Excuse Me (I Think I’ve Got A Heartache)
4. Foolin’ Around
5. Loose Talk – Buck Owens & Rose Maddox
6. Mental Cruelty – Buck Owens & Rose Maddox
7. Under The Influence Of Love
8. Kickin’ Our Hearts Around
9. You’re For Me
10. Act Naturally
11. Love’s Gonna Live Here
12. My Heart Skips A Beat
13. Together Again
14. I Don’t Care (Just As Long As You Love Me)
15. I’ve Got A Tiger By The Tail
16. Before You Go
17. Only You (Can Break My Heart)
18. Gonna Have Love
19. Buckaroo
20. Waitin’ In Your Welfare Line
21. Think Of Me
22. Open Up Your Heart
22. Where Does The Good Times Go
23. Sam’s Place

This stunningly opulent, and wholly heartfelt new collection of country songs opens on the free-wheeling Under Your Spell Again from the first disc and follows that up seamlessly with the joyous Above And Beyond, the melodious twanging within Excuse Me (I Think I’ve Got A Heartache), the Southern Maryland-imbibed Foolin’ Around, the fantastic duet Loose Talk (Buck Owens & Rose Maddox) and then we get the nostalgic honky tonk country of Mental Cruelty (Buck Owens & Rose Maddox), the foot-tapper Under The Influence Of Love, the mid-tempo Kickin’ Our Hearts Around, the twanging beauty You’re For Me, and then comes the crystal clear guitar playing and buoyant rhythms of Act Naturally and the definitive Bakersfield sound of Love’s Gonna Live Here.

Next up on this first disc is the song that went to #1 on the country charts in 1964, My Heart Skips A Beat and the pedal steel guitar balladry of Together Again and they are in turn backed by the feisty song that went to #1 for 6 weeks on the country music charts in 1964, I Don’t Care (Just As Long As You Love Me), the Hee Haw-imbued I’ve Got A Tiger By The Tail, the guitar-led Before You Go, the always pleasant to the ear ballad Only You (Can Break My Heart), the perky country of Gonna Have Love, and then along comes one of my own favorites, the Bakersfield sound of Buckaroo, the cleverly written Waitin’ In Your Welfare Line, a song that went to #1 on the country charts in 1966, Think Of Me, the opening disc rounding out on the country pop of Open Up Your Heart, the bittersweet ode within Where Does The Good Times Go, closing on the twangy Fender Telecasters of Sam’s Place.

Disc 2:
1. Your Tender Loving Care
2. It Takes People Like You (To Make People Like Me)
3. How Long Will My Baby Be Gone
4. Sweet Rosie Jones
5. Let The World Keep On A Turnin’ – Buck Owens & Buddy Alan
6. I’ve Got You On My Mind Again
7. Who’s Gonna Mow Your Grass
8. Johnny B. Goode
9. Tall Dark Stranger
10. Big In Vegas
11. The Kansas City Song
12. The Great White Horse – Buck Owens & Susan Raye
13. I Wouldn’t Live In New York City (If They Gave Me The Whole Dang Town)
14. Bridge Over Troubled Water
15. Ruby (Are You Mad)
16. Rollin’ In My Sweet Baby’s Arms
17. I’ll Still Be Waiting For You
18. Made In Japan
19. Big Game Hunter
20. On The Cover Of The Music City News
21. (It’s A) Monsters’ Holiday
22. Great Expectations

The second disc opens on the heartwrenchingly beautiful Your Tender Loving Care and the mid-70s country pop haze of It Takes People Like You (To Make People Like Me) and then we get the gently frenetic How Long Will My Baby Be Gone, the beautiful, yearning balladry of Sweet Rosie Jones, the upbeat and jubilant duet Let The World Keep On A Turnin’ (Buck Owens & Buddy Alan), then comes the mid-tempo hipsway of I’ve Got You On My Mind Again, that 60s fuzz with those double layered vocals that harken back to the Beatles sound, Who’s Gonna Mow Your Grass, a turbulent Johnny B. Goode, the brilliant bass line threaded through Tall Dark Stranger, and up next is the last song Buck ever sang, live on stage at the Crystal Palace in Bakersfield the evening before he passed away, Big In Vegas and one of the best country themes there has been, The Kansas City Song.

Along next is the harmonious Duet The Great White Horse (Buck Owens & Susan Raye) and the sentiment-laden I Wouldn’t Live In New York City (If They Gave Me The Whole Dang Town), the rarely heard within country circles now country gem, Bridge Over Troubled Water, the banjo-led beauty Ruby (Are You Mad), then comes the forthright ode Rollin’ In My Sweet Baby’s Arms, the pure gold balladry of I’ll Still Be Waiting For You, the cool breeze hipsway of a song that went to #1 on the country charts in 1972, Made In Japan, the divine picking and singing within Big Game Hunter, this collection coming to a triumphant conclusion with the upbeat and joyful ditty On The Cover Of The Music City News, the rock ’n’ roll of (It’s A) Monsters’ Holiday and the languishing country majesties within the lonesome storytelling of Great Expectations.

Official Purchase Link

www.omnivorerecordings.com





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