. ♪ well, i keep my nose on the grindstone work hard every day ♪ ♪ i might get a little tired on the♪ but i go back to working come monday morning i'm right ♪ ♪ back with the groove i drink a little beer that evening just sing a little ♪ >> there was sort of a bad-guy appeal that was working for people. this is back in the time bonnie and clyde, the movie came out later in the '60s, merle haggard personified that outlaw. and a lot of artists of that time kind of had a rough edge to them that people just went for. now, when the public started hearing these bakersfield artists and recognizing how different they were than the sameness of nashville, it just stood out. buck owens, once he hit it big, he just nailed them one after the other because he was so different and so fresh from what the american public had been used to. he. >> he had 21 number-one records in a row. he had the number-one record in the united states on the a side. the b side was number two. and they stayed like that for weeks, just flip-flopping back and forth. ♪ anybody going to san antone >> i'd have to say the hey