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.

a different kind of country music—unafraid of its rough edges—was coming out of the smoky dance halls in Bakersfield. Buck Owens was at the center of it. With unabashed twang—and with Don ...

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 ...

The album, “Bakersfield Believes,” is as much a who’s who of Bakersfield’s most gifted musical talents, country and otherwise ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — When the Bakersfield Country Music Museum held its grand opening in May 1988, local singer Inez Savage caught it all on film. That historic occasion – more than 35 ...

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 ...

Spring is upon us and in this season of renewal, opportunities to experience live music abound. From classical and jazz to folklorico, country and rock, music lovers will have plenty to enjoy this ...

Dwight Yoakam has country music cred. The pioneering artist spent ... The stripped-down honky-tonk and Bakersfield sound for which Yoakam became known proved, historian Bill Malone writes, that ...

"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 ...