The Bakersfield City Council approved two improvement grants Wednesday, even as some members questioned how the program is administered. There was only one regular action item on the council's agenda, ...

"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 ...

Norm Hamlet is a music legend. The 90-year-old has lived an extraordinary life playing the steel guitar, making him a major contributor to the Bakersfield Sound. 17 News’ Robert Price speaks with ...

Due out June 6th, Daniel’s fifth studio album will feature 11 songs, one of which is a collaboration with Charles Wesley Godwin, and also includes instrumentation from Charlie McCoy, Lynyrd Skynyrd ...

More than 100 locals poured into Rasmussen Senior Center in Oildale on Monday morning to celebrate the birthday of Red Simpson, the late Bakersfield Sound country music pioneer who died in 2016.

Queens country singer and pianist Tennessee Walt will bring the Bakersfield Sound, a mid-20th century country music genre, to the Bryant Library in Roslyn on ...

But Yoakam is not a run-of-the-mill country artist and has been known for blending vintage country sounds such as rockabilly, bluegrass, the Bakersfield sound made famous by Buck Owens and Merle ...

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 ...

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 ...