C-SPAN Cities Tour - Bakersfield: Westward Migration and the Bakersfield Sound

Hear the music of the Bakersfield Sound and learn how this raw, musical style tells the story of the Dust Bowl and post-World War II migrations to California. Inside Buck Owens' Crystal Palace Buckaroo Jim Shaw talks about the hay-day of this country music style, and hear from reporter Robert Price about the origins of the Bakersfield Sound and the people behind this cultural movement.
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[@vincesarmento4854]

I understand now why the two people l went crazy over when I was 5 or 6 back in 69 & 70 was Buck Owens and the Hag - their music 🎶 out of all the country music played in our home - those two l just couldn't get enough of! Their sound was so different and with those Fender Telecasters sent this little kid to the moon! I still love them today!

[@HerbWalker]

............................................................................................................................................I Really Wish I had been around back then to get IN on all that was going on. That's the TWO places I would have loved have seen or even been a part of ,To Be in Memphis(My home town) and watch Sam Phillipes find all that talent at Sun Records and to have been out there to see the Bakersfield California Music scene as it happened with Wynn, Haggard and Buck Owens. Wow, It must have been something else.

[@darren6915]

Herb Walker KUZZ.

[@knowmusicman157]

@@darren6915 Tommy Collins, Don Rich he shows but didn’t say. And our steel men Ralph Mooney and Tom Brumley. Without steel there ain’t no California Country music

[@JohnAdams-xc5yk]

He recorded his shows in Oklahoma city, the Mathis brothers were sponsers

[@vincesarmento4854]

Buck created this music!

[@V8Deuce]

Shame on you for not mentioning Don Rich or Roy Nichols......

[@vincesarmento4854]

Those men gave us that sound they were talking about - your so right!!!

[@knowmusicman157]

Wynn Stewart and Ralph Mooney created California Country,. Bakersfield, West Coast style. And Harlan.

[@V8Deuce]

@@knowmusicman157 It's your story pal, make it as BIG as you want. Besides that, I wasn't talking about "California" . I am talking specifically about Bakersfield !

[@knowmusicman157]

@@V8Deuce California Country, Bakersfield, West Coast. One in the same. I ain't your pal if you're that ignorant. Tommy Collins cut his record first and Buck played lead. Have as big a bad attitude as want.

[@V8Deuce]

@@knowmusicman157 You're a F'n jackass, and don't know half as much as you think you do!

[@miguelventura7651]

When this vato refurs to Hispanics he means Mexican..in Bakersfield we are Mexican.

[@V8Deuce]

Who cares

[@knowmusicman157]

You are right! He’s a vato and a dumbbell

[@Savvce]

Not all of us are Mexican, brother. Majority are but there are thousands of central americans here too and a few south americans and islanders.

[@creepinupalleys3859]

Nashville was the Motown and Bakersfield was Stax

[@martykayzee8398]

Were there any Black "Oakies?"

[@knowmusicman157]

You never heard of Dwight Yoakum? This dude doesn’t know jack.

[@RobertMiller-sr9iq]

Buck tough don orick riche to play leed guitar