Bakersfield Sound

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Artists
Charles Albany
Bobby Austin
Johnny Barnett
Albert E. Brumley, Jr.
Tom Brumley
Gerald Claunch
Cliff Crofford
Bill Gruggett
Merle Haggard
KUZZin Herb Henson
Joe Holley
Doyle Holly
Ferlin Husky
Lawton Jiles
Maddox Brothers and Rose
Barbara Mandrell
Rose Maphis
Billy Mize
Bob Morris
Semie Moseley
Mayf Nutter
Fuzzy Owen
Bonnie Owens
Buck Owens
Ebb Pilling
Roy Rogers
Ronnie Sessions
Red Simpson
Dave Stogner
Lewis Talley
Hank Thompson
Oscar Whittington
Bill Woods

Check back soon for additions to the list of artists on this web page.

The following is an excerpt from an article in Historic Kern on the Bakersfield Sound by Kern County Museum curator Jeff Nickell.

The migration of the Okies to California in the 1930s and 1940s is really where the Bakersfield Sound started. “The (Bakersfield) music was simple but powerful, played by simple-living people who had to leave their farms to come west,” said Tommy Collins, an Oklahoma native who wrote his first hit songs after moving to Bakersfield in 1951. “There’s quite a history to the camaraderie that developed between those Dust Bowl people. They weren’t apt to go for fancy music.”

The Bakersfield Sound article by Jeff Nickell

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Left to Right: Merle Haggard Jacket, Barbara Mandrell Stage Costume, Rose Maddox StageCostume


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