"If you've ever screamed at your radio "this is NOT Country Music ! ! ! " The Buckles are your band..."

Great Dance Music (West Coast Swing, Cha Cha, Two Step, Shuffle & More)(The
Buckles perform songs by many artists including: Buck Owens, Ray Price, Merle Haggard, Don Gibson, Desert Rose Band, Charlie Pride, Wynn Stewart, Dwight Yoakam, The Mavericks, Fastball, The Derailers, George Jones, The Louvin Brothers,
The Mavericks, Jimmy Bryant, Johnny Paycheck, The Wonders, Speedy West and more).

Here is your chance to hear the classics of honky-tonk, performed by Portland's staunchest country traditionalists. Hard-core Bakersfield twang right out of the playbooks of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, unaffected by the homogenized country-pop of today. The Buckles serve up a highly listenable and eminently danceable set, guaranteed to please.

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THE BUCKLES RAVE REVIEWS:

"...when you are a top notch, talented musician like each of these fine gentleman,
when you strive musically to "be different" than all of the rest in town, when "personal appearance" means something to you and the band in general, when folks in the audience look forward to coming to your next event, when folks happily paya cover charge to see and hear your group, when the audience can actually hold a conversation while listening to your band... your audience loves you !"
Mike Winter (Blue Moon Highway), Portland, OR

"A genuine love for this music explains the Buckles' spot-on sound - Harley James' keen pedal steel guitar, Waits rippling Telecaster lines, the in-the-pocket shuffle beats and the close vocal harmonies - close your eyes and you're back in some chicken-wire Bakersfield honky-tonk with Buck and the Boys holding forth."

The Oregonian - Critics Choice Aug 2003

"Musicians refer to great players as monsters, which means that (Harley)James is about 287 feet tall, covered in green scales and breathes blue nuclear fireballs." "Discipline, musicianship and chops - not to mention rhinestone-studded bolero jackets and
taco shell hats - make the Buckles as good a dance band as you'll hear."
John
Foyston, The Oregonian