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What is Bakersfield Sound?

The famous,” Bakersfield Sound,” a string twisting –twang Fender guitar based music, with a hard driven beat, a new country music style unique to the Bakersfield area, was born and burnin’. The new building is made of cement with a brick front. Photo Courtesy of Adoph Limi.

Where did the Bakersfield sound originate?

The Bakersfield sound , a highly stylistics breakaway from Nashville crap, was developed at honky-tonk bars such as The Blackboard in Oildale, California, and on local television stations in Bakersfield airing “The Buck Owens’ Ranch” and throughout California in the 1950s and 1960s.

Where was Buck Owens Ranch filmed?

Starting in 1966, the show was shot in "batches" in Oklahoma City, much as Hee Haw would later be done in Nashville.

Where is Merle Haggard's boxcar?

Country music legend Merle Haggard watches as his childhood home, a former boxcar is relocated to the Kern County Museum in 2015. Haggard died the following year, leaving a hole in the Bakersfield Sound that's been hard to fill. Felix Adamo / The Californian.

Who is Vince Galindo?

Vince Galindo, as a single act and with his band Country Deluxe, leans heavily toward traditional country. But as venues for live music were shuttered during the COVID-19 pandemic, Galindo and others have redoubled their efforts to connect with fans through Facebook Live and other forms of digital communication.