Buck Owens, who pioneered the Bakersfield sound, played at the barn at least twice month from 1960 until 1964. According to a ...

Buck Owens was at the center of it. With unabashed twang—and with Don Rich playing guitar and adding harmony—Owens and the Bakersfield Sound was the opposite of the Nashville Sound ...

Its legal owner, the Kern County Museum, unveiled the long-sought sign at a press conference Friday afternoon. Museum ...

The Bakersfield Sound was one of the dominant elements of country music from the 1960s through the 1980s, lifting stars like Merle Haggard, Buck Owens and Jean Shepard to international fame.

Bakersfield’s “Mariachi Girl,” Alessandra Gutierrez, joined 17 News at Sunrise for another installment of Sound of Sunrise.

"So you could hear the sound boom I'm pretty sure within 23 houses away you could hear it," says Tommy Mosqueda. 23ABC has confirmed with Bakersfield police, that a 2-year-old is listed in ...

"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 ...

Red Simpson - Bill Woods From Bakersfield; Thad Tillotson - Good Ole Country Sound; Freddie Hart - If You Can't Feel It (It Ain't There); Carlyle Graham - Foolish Man; Kay Austin - The Lord Rested On ...

A decade or more before Bakersfield became the spiritual home for country music in the Central Valley of California, there was the Big Fresno Barn. The converted dance hall was situated on a rural ...

A decade or more before Bakersfield became the spiritual home for country music in the Central Valley of California, there was the Big Fresno Barn. The converted dance hall was situated on a rural ...