BUCK OWENS

“Hot Dog!” Capitol ***

Thanks to renewed attention sparked by his No. 1 country hit duet with Dwight Yoakam on “The Streets of Bakersfield,” Buck is back. But he surely doesn’t stay long on his first album in nine years--a too-brisk, 10-song, 25-minute collection on which yesterday lives again. Most of the songs are drawn from the late ‘50s and early ‘60s and demonstrate that there’s still no one better at the swinging, Telecaster-propelled Bakersfield sound that has enamored new traditionalists from Yoakam to Rosie Flores. Other than the unfathomable decision by the 59-year-old singer to record Eddie Cochran’s anthem to teen Angst “Summertime Blues,” Owens shows he still has plenty to offer, his musically fruitless “Hee Haw” years notwithstanding.