Buck Owens RIP

Man, Buck Owens passed away this weekend at the age of 76. That's a real shame, and he will be sorely missed. Forget the Hee-Haw thing (which, by his own account, made him a small fortune and set him for life), and check out some of his groundbreaking work defining the Bakersfield sound and providing an antidote with Nashville's increasingly slick sound back in the '60's.

If you have a Telecaster, play a lick or two for Buck today - you probably wouldn't even own one if wasn't for him.