Omnivore Recordings is headed back to Bakersfield with a new collection from the late, great Buck Owens due on May 11 in both CD and digital formats.  The Complete Capitol Singles: 1967-1970 picks up where Omnivore's last volume (1957-1966), released in late 2016, left off.  This 2-CD, 36-track set chronologically features every A- and B-side released by the Bakersfield, CA singer-songwriter at Capitol between 1967 and 1970, including fourteen top ten hits.

In his lifetime, Buck Owens accrued 21 chart-toppers on the U.S. Billboard Country chart - six of which are featured on this collection: the ode to a honky-tonk "Sam's Place," "Your Tender Loving Care," "How Long Will My Baby Be Gone," "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass," a cover of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode," and "Tall Dark Stranger."  Additionally, Omnivore's set includes six duets with Buck's frequent partner Susan Raye, and another two with his son, Buddy Alan (Owens).  Buck's seasonal single "Christmas Shopping" b/w "One of Everything You Got" is also included.  Naturally, the artist is backed on most tracks by the Buckaroos and guitarist Don Rich, Owens' most sympathetic musical collaborator.

The Complete Capitol Singles: 1967-1970 has been compiled by Patrick Milligan and newly remastered by Michael Graves.  Scott B. Bomar has penned new liner notes.  It's being released by Omnivore in conjunction with the Buck Owens Estate.  The label's press release quotes the late Owens on this period: "The reason my Capitol records sounded the way they did -- real heavy on the treble -- was because I knew most people were going to be listening to 'em on their AM car radios. At the time, nobody else was doing anything like that, but it just seemed like common sense to me. And it was one more reason that you knew it was a Buck Owens record as soon as it came on the radio -- because it just didn't sound like those other records."  These 36 rip-roarin', honky-tonkin' tracks are an example of why the Bakersfield Sound  is still one of the most potent in the entirety of the country music spectrum, and indeed, of American popular music itself.

Look for this second installment of Buck Owens' complete Capitol singles on May 11 at the links below!

Buck Owens, The Complete Capitol Singles: 1967-1970 (Omnivore, 2018) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

CD 1

1. Sam's Place
2. Don't Ever Tell Me Goodbye
3. Your Tender Loving Care
4. What a Liar I Am
5. It Takes People Like You (To Make People Like Me)
6. You Left Her Lonely Too Long
7. How Long Will My Baby Be Gone
8. Everybody Needs Somebody
9. Sweet Rosie Jones
10. Happy Times are Here Again
11. Let the World Keep on Turnin' - Buck Owens & Buddy Alan
12. I'll Love You Forever and Ever - Buck Owens & Buddy Alan
13. I've Got You on My Mind Again
14. That's All Right with Me (If It's All Right with You)
15. Christmas Shopping
16. One of Everything You Got
17. Things I Saw Happening at the Fountain on the Plaza When I Was Visiting Rome, or Amore
18. Turkish Holiday

CD 2

1. Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass?
2. There's Gotta Be Some Changes Made
3. Johnny B. Goode
4. Maybe If I Close My Eyes (It'll Go Away)
5. Tall Dark Stranger
6. Sing That Kind of Song
7. Big in Vegas
8. White Satin Bed
9. We're Gonna Get Together - Buck Owens & Susan Raye
10. Everybody Needs Somebody - Buck Owens & Susan Raye
11. Togetherness - Buck Owens & Susan Raye
12. Fallin' for You - Buck Owens & Susan Raye
13. The Kansas City Song
14. I'd Love to Be Your Man
15. The Great White Horse - Buck Owens & Susan Raye
16. Your Tender Loving Care - Buck Owens & Susan Raye
17. I Wouldn't Live in New York City (If They Gave Me the Whole Dang Town)
18. No Milk and Honey in Baltimore

CD 1, Tracks 1-2 from Capitol 5865, 1967
CD 1, Tracks 3-4 from Capitol 5942, 1967
CD 1, Tracks 5-6 from Capitol 2001, 1967
CD 1, Track 7-8 from Capitol 2080, 1968
CD 1, Tracks 9-10 from Capitol 2142, 1968
CD 1, Tracks 11-12 from Capitol 2237, 1968
CD 1, Track 13-14 from Capitol 2300, 1968
CD 1, Tracks 15-16 from Capitol 2328, 1968
CD 1, Tracks 17-18 from Capitol 2330, 1968
CD 2, Tracks 1-2 from Capitol 2377, 1969
CD 2, Tracks 3-4 from Capitol 2485, 1969
CD 2, Tracks 5-6 from Capitol 2570, 1969
CD 2, Tracks 7-8 from Capitol 2646, 1969
CD 2, Tracks 9-10 from Capitol 2731, 1970
CD 2, Tracks 11-12 from Capitol 2791, 1970
CD 2, Tracks 13-14 from Capitol 2783, 1970
CD 2, Tracks 15-16 from Capitol 2871, 1970
CD 2, Tracks 17-18 from Capitol 2947, 1970