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

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

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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"

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