But there’s a city in Southern California that is often dubbed “Nashville West.” Bakersfield has its own music hall of fame, and its musical history is even reflected in the motto on the ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Bakersfield Country Music Awards is set to happen in November. The event is scheduled to take place on Nov. 16 at the The Nile Theater at 1721 19th St. The doors ...

With unabashed twang—and with Don Rich playing guitar and adding harmony—Owens and the Bakersfield Sound was the opposite of the Nashville Sound, which he called “soft, easy, sweet ...

A decade or more before Bakersfield became the spiritual home ... But from the 1940s well into the 1960s, the venue also known as “Nashville West” was a mainstay for western swing and what ...

To proponents of the Bakersfield Sound, it was the anti-Nashville — tough, lean and mean honky-tonk music. It stood in sharp contrast to the records being recorded on Music Row, its admirers ...

The town of Marysville, Calif., has decided to make itself the new "Nashville West," as Bakersfield can no longer claim the tittle. What happened? Is it just the end of an era or is it because our ...

the Nashville sound — that influence the genre. But few have had the outsized impact of the Bakersfield sound, a mid-20th century era in which rockabilly, honky-tonk, country, and rock ...

Bakersfield, California, is known as "Nashville West." Country music is synonymous with Nashville. But there’s a city in Southern California that is often dubbed “Nashville West.” ...