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Sep 27, 2024 · September 27, 2024. Bakersfield was the center of a revolution in Country Western Music in the 1950’s and 60’s with popular artists Red Simpson, Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. The Bakersfield Sound exhibit mixes costumes, musical instruments, period photographs and architectural artifacts to take visitors on a honkytonk time trip.
10-CD boxed set (LP-format) with 224 page hardcover book, 299 tracks. Total playing time approx. 738 minutes. The compelling story of how a country music cottage industry transformed Bakersfield into the Country Music Capital of the West, sometimes called ‘Nashville West’, a serious challenge to Nashville's commercial country dominance.
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The walls inside the club are lined with Bakersfield Sound era memorabilia and portraits of key players in the development of the Bakersfield Sound are on display inside the club. The Bakersfield Sound: Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and California Country was a featured exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville TN, March 24, 2012 – December 31, 2014.
The Bakersfield sound is a sub- genre of country music developed in the mid-to-late 1950s in and around Bakersfield, California. [1] Bakersfield is defined by its influences of rock and roll and honky-tonk style country, and its heavy use of electric instrumentation and backbeats. [2] It was also a reaction against the slickly produced ...
He went against Nashville and changed country music forever. His Crystal Palace Theater is a monument to his influence and love of the city he called home, B...
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The Bakersfield sound has been characterized by many in the decades since its days of fame died. Buck Owens called it “unpolished, give-em-hell, straight-ahead, no-BS-about-it music” and Henry Shropshire, a drummer who helped define the sound, described it as “good western twang where you can get that dance feel.”.
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Jan 27, 2015 · Here in the San Joaquin Valley, you can add another city to that list – Bakersfield. It was here in the 1950’s and 60’s that young musicians - children of the Dust Bowl migration to California - began to develop their own brand of country music. It was loud, rough and rowdy music born in small clubs with names like The Blackboard and ...
