Hee Haw was just possibly the most critically panned TV show in TV history.   I think they were way too hard on the show, which was not trying to be anything but fun.   I was an occasional watcher, more for the musical segments than the comedy. But I really liked Buck's records that came out earlier. I always turned up the volume for his songs on the radio when I was a kid. I had a transistor radio from the time I was eight, and in those days, the "top 40" stations in LA played some country artists, like Buck and Patsy Cline.


And his style of guitar playing up the neck has been copied by a lot of musicians out here in California.   I remember one guy calling them "Buck Owens runs".