found: His Buck Owens & the Buckaroos live at Carnegie Hall [SR] 1988:label (Buck Owens) container (b. 8/12/29 in Sherman, Texas)
found: New Grove dict. of Amer. mus.(Owens, Buck (Alvis Edgar, Jr.); b. Aug. 12, 1929, Sherman, TX; country-music singer, guitarist, and songwriter)
found: McCloud, B. Definitive country(Owens, Buck; given name: Alvin [sic] Edgar Owens, Jr.; b. Aug. 12, 1929, Sherman, Tex.; singer, songwriter, guitar, steel guitar, bass, saxophone, trumpet)
found: New York times WWW site, Mar. 27, 2006(Buck Owens; b. Alvis E. Owens, Aug. 12, 1929, Sherman, Tex.; d. Saturday [Mar. 25, 2006], Bakersfield, Calif., aged 76; maverick honky-tonk singer who scored a string of country hits that included Act naturally and Waitin' in your welfare line before steering country music to television as a co-host of the series Hee haw)