Buck Owens (a truck driver who had moved to Bakersfield in 1951) The lively, cadenced sound of Buck Owens' songs straddled the border between country music and rock music because it was driven by two guitars, a country (slide) guitar (Ralph Mooney) and a rock (electric) guitar (Don Rich), the two pillars of his Buckaroos: Second Fiddle (1959), Under Your Spell Again (1959), which sounded like soul music, Under the Influence of Love (1961), Johnny Russell's Act Naturally (1963), which sounded like rock'n'roll, Love's Gonna Live Here (1963), Tiger By The Tail (1964), Rich's Waiting in Your Welfare Line (1966), Tall Dark Stranger (1969), Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass (1969), Made in Japan (1972).

Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard (1961) was entirely devoted to Harlan Howard material.

The mini-album After the Dance (Masked Weasel, 2005) collects songs from the 1950s.