Bakersfield-inspired Nashville songwriter Larry Bastian, 90, has died. Among his many hits included Garth Brooks' “Unanswered ...

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 ...

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 ...

In honor of one of Bakersfield's most famous sons, the Haggard Boxcar Music Festival, a grand birthday celebration for the iconic country music legend Merle Haggard, returns after a four-year ...

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

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 ...