Well attestedNamed from the place
Bakersfield sound
noun · first attested 1950s
Country music's sharpest rebuttal to Nashville came from a California oil town.
A hard-edged style of country music built on electric Telecaster twang and a stiff backbeat.
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- 1950s
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Bakersfield
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Bakersfield sound
Dust Bowl migrants carried southern music into Kern County, and by the late 1950s Buck Owens and Merle Haggard were cutting records in Bakersfield that refused Nashville's smooth strings. The label came from critics and the trade press rather than from the musicians themselves.
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