a different kind of country music—unafraid of its rough edges—was coming out of the smoky dance halls in Bakersfield. Buck Owens was at the center of it. With unabashed twang—and with Don ...

Back in 2017, during his Guitar Masters performance at the Bakersfield Music Hall of Fame, Spanish guitar phenom Diego Garcia ...

Dwight Yoakam has country music cred. The pioneering artist spent ... The stripped-down honky-tonk and Bakersfield sound for which Yoakam became known proved, historian Bill Malone writes, that ...

The album, “Bakersfield Believes,” is as much a who’s who of Bakersfield’s most gifted musical talents, country and otherwise ...

Merle Haggard is a country music icon. He wrote ... “Fuzzy Owen, a steel guitar player in Bakersfield, California kind of put up the money for my first records. The very first records began ...

The Officer David Nelson Memorial Scholarship is joining forces with the Luke Bryan Farm Tour for a special fundraising event ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — When the Bakersfield Country Music Museum held its grand opening in May 1988, local singer Inez Savage caught it all on film. That historic occasion – more than 35 ...

Renowned country music songwriter Larry Bastian passed away on Sunday, April 6, at age 90. Born on September 1, 1934, in Porterville, California, Bastian initially worked as a biologist before ...

"The Bakersfield Sound," Robert E. Price's authoritative history of the hard-edged style that transformed country music, is now on sale for $21.95. "The Bakersfield Sound: How A Generation of ...