The Bakersfield Sound: Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and California Country

by Country Music Hall Of Fame and Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Nestled at the southern end of California's San Joaquin Valley, the city of Bakersfield is best known for farming, oil fields, and a unique brand of country music called the "Bakersfield Sound." The term is generally used to describe a hard-edged honkytonk sensibility characterized by sharp, twanging Fender Telecaster guitars, crying pedal steel, and straight-ahead country vocals - a sound that thrived in Bakersfield clubs in the 1950s and '60s. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915608065
• ISBN13: 9780915608065
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 10.9"