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Bakersfield sound

Music genre
NameBakersfield sound
Stylistic originsCountry music, pop music
Cultural origins1950s California
Typical instrumentsGuitar - fiddle - bass - drums - banjo - pedal steel guitar - piano - vocals
Mainstream popularityLate 1950s and 1960s US
Fusion genresCountry rock
Other topicsCountry musicians - List of years in country music

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The Bakersfield sound was a genre of country music developed in the mid- to late 1950s in and around Bakersfield, California. The many hit singles were largely produced by Capital Records country music head, Ken Nelson. Bakersfield country was a reaction against the slickly produced, string orchestra-laden Nashville sound, which was becoming popular in the late 1950s. Buck Owens and the Buckaroos and Merle Haggard and the Strangers are the most successful artists of the original Bakersfield sound era.

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See Music Videos www.bvmtv.com that you CAN'T See on You Tube ! +Live Chat and Embed video codes! Emerging from prison in the 1960s, Haggard was one of the early innovators of the Bakersfield Sound. With his hard biting electric guitar, he almost singlehandedly introduced the electric sound to country music. By the 1970s, he was aligned with the growing outlaw country movement, and has continued to release successful albums through the 1990s and into the 2000s. His work in familiar country themes -- jail, betrayal, drinking and wandering -- include a directness that reflects his own life experience. His deep, grumbling voice and his guitar work gives his country a blues-like quality in many cuts.
2.70 min. | 4.90 user rating		 See Music Videos www.bvmtv.com that you CAN'T See on You Tube ! +Live Chat and Embed video codes! Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6, 1937) is an American country music singer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band "The Strangers" helped create the Bakersfield Sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville Sound recordings of the same era. By the 1970s, Haggard was aligned with the growing outlaw country movement, and has continued to release successful albums through the 1990s and into the 2000s. His songs display unflinching personal honesty about such universal themes as love, loss, patriotism, regret and redemption. In 1997, Merle Haggard was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame for his song Okie from Muskogee.
3.22 min. | 4.89 user rating		 Dwight Yoakam performs his great tribute to the Bakersfield Sound for the 2nd time of the evening. That is one, lucky audience; if you ask me.
3.85 min. | 4.95 user rating		 Billy Mize and Cliff Crofford's harmonies for "Tell Him No" typify the Bakersfield Sound. From a local television broadcast out of Compton, California in the late 1950's. See more at: www.weirdovideo.com
2.13 min. | 4.89 user rating		 Sky Eats Airplane performing "Sound Of Symmetry" at Jerry's pizza in Bakersfield California Myspace.com/askydensurvive FOR MORE SHOWS!!! A SKyden Survive Productions Bringing The Show To Your Screen!
4.93 min. | 3.60 user rating
This is Dwight's tribute to the Bakersfield Sound from his first LP, Guitars Cadillacs Etc Etc.
3.00 min. | 4.33 user rating		 The Return of Phantom House of Electro! & a Tribute to Buck Owens, Don Rich & The Buckeroos of Bakersfield CA This is Bakersfield Sound & Electro!!! We are the Dance Generation USA Real American Country Electro Dance Video by TekNahLow-G & Xpander - Illuminektro BLACK MASK & XPANDER Productions Song: Buck Owens - My Heart Skips A Beat BITCH!!! oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY Eefi
2.25 min. | 4.60 user rating		 www.idgoback.com The Patterson Family Band - Bakersfield, Ca - 93387 - Telephone (661) 346-4808 -- Deryl Patterson along with his daughters Breeia and Tierra comprise the Patterson Family Band. You can find them on Saturdays and Sundays playing at the 24th Street Cafe - 1415 24th Street in Bakersfield, Ca. All three Patterson's play Martin guitars and sing. They have a playlist that is very large and is made of of Gospel, Country, Pop, Rock, Soul, Motown, R & B, Christian and many other sounds. They also play requests and have a Ear for music that is incredible. If you can, try to catch this fantastic family trio at the great 24th Street Cafe, before and after you have a great Breakfast or Lunch at 24th Cafe you can hear Deryl, Breeia and Tierra singing and playing their hearts out with some of the most beautiful harmonies you have heard. They have a dream to play on the stage where Buck Owens played at the Buck Owens Crystal Palace in Bakersfield, California...they are gaining quite a fan base, so this should happen very soon...John Fogerty who wrote this song was also a huge Buck Owens fan, he mentions listening to Buck Owens in this song he wrote in the 1960's , this is when Buck Owens was the # 1 country music artist in the world along with his band the Buckaroos....you can see the Buckaroos playing frequently at the Buck Owens Crystal Palace. Some of the purest country music that have even been written, performed or recorded was done in Bakersfield....The Patterson <b>...</b>
2.43 min. | 5.0 user rating		 This film is a sound and motion piece, shot in the oil fields near bakersfield, california. Particularly interesting sounds.
5.30 min. | 4.90 user rating		 From the album Red Kilby Keepin' it real Dick Overbey steelguitar Ralph Mooney steelguitar Red Volkaert guitar
3.72 min. | 5.0 user rating

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Bakersfield Californian---...- the moratorium might -sound- like a good thing, but some real estate agents and brokers say it could significantly hamper sales in the -Bakersfield- area, ... - Date : Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:04:10 GMT+00:00
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KERO-TV 23---BAKERSFIELD-, Calif. -- Classroom overcrowding may -sound- like the norm nowadays, but for Jon Shetrone, it's far from normal. Shetrone's daughter is a ... - Date : Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:43:55 GMT+00:00



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