Distributed for the Country Music Foundation Press: The Bakersfield Sound : Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and California Country (Edition 1) (Paperback)

The Bakersfield Sound: Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and California Country The stripped-Down country sounds that Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and their California cohorts crafted in the 1950s and '60s still reverberate in the twenty-first century.

The edgy music created in the oil town of Bakersfield, and the great musicians identified with it, have long been a distinctive part of the fabric of country music.