Today, the " Bakersfield Sound " describes this blend, which developed after the migrants brought country music to the city.

Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound, new vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville Sound recordings of the same era.

The Bakersfield Sound was developing in the area as a reaction against the over-produced honky tonk of the Nashville Sound.

At the beginning of the decade, the countrypolitan — an offshoot of the earlier " Nashville Sound " of the late 1950s and early 1960s — and the honky-tonk fused Bakersfield Sound were some of the more popular styles.

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By the middle of the decade, British blues and R & B bands like The Beatles, The Who and the Rolling Stones were topping the charts in what became known as the British Invasion, alongside newly-secularized soul music and the mainstreaming of the Bakersfield Sound.

Merle Haggard led the rise of the Bakersfield Sound in the 60s, when the perceived superficiality of the Nashville Sound led to a national wave that almost entirely switched country music's capital and sound within the space of a few years.

With the Bakersfield Sound the dominant influence, outlaw country singers like Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings were the biggest country stars of the 70s, alongside country rock bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and Allman Brothers Band who were more oriented towards crossover audiences.

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Even though Cline also gained widespread acceptance from country and pop audiences alike, the Nashville Sound did not maintain its popularity for long, receiving competition first from the Bakersfield Sound and later the outlaw movement.

Progressive country music, also known as " redneck rock ," was strongly influenced by a variety of " hard " country music styles, including western swing, honky tonk, and the Bakersfield Sound.

Many musicians preferred a rougher sound, leading to the development the Lubbock Sound and Bakersfield Sound.

Their 1969 album The Gilded Palace of Sin was a modernized version of the Bakersfield style of country music made popular by Buck Owens, and the band appeared on the album cover wearing Nudie suits emblazoned with all sorts of hippie accoutrements.

* Their song " Busy Office Rhumba " was used as the theme for the 1993 Fox television series Bakersfield P. D.

General managers included Bob Linscheid ( who would go to become president of the WBL ) and Jeff Kragel ( now at Chico State University ) and their mascot was the beloved " Heater The Dragon " ( not to be confused with the Bakersfield Blaze mascot of the same name ).

In 1934 a Primary school was built in Bakersfield in Sir Jesse Boot's memory named " Jesse Boot Primary School ".

The current league was founded in 1941, and contained teams in Anaheim, Bakersfield, Fresno, Merced, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara and Stockton.

After the father was blacklisted for joining in a strike, the family moved to Bakersfield, California, in 1894, where the father worked in a railroad repair yard, and the son had summer jobs in railroading.

It was in Bakersfield that Warren's father was murdered during a robbery by an unknown killer.

The cropduster sequence, meant to take place in northern Indiana, was shot on location on Garces Highway ( 155 ) near the towns of Wasco and Delano, north of Bakersfield in Kern County, California ().

The film was shot partially near Bakersfield and the Mojave Desert, California.

County government was created in 1866 with the county seat in the mining town of Havilah, in the mountains between Bakersfield and Tehachapi.

Within 10 years the valley surpassed the mining areas as the economic center of the county, and the county seat was moved as a result from Havilah to Bakersfield in 1874.

Kern County was nearly named Buena Vista County for the large, and now drained, Buena Vista Lake between Bakersfield and Taft.

According to the publication California's Geographic Names, Mettler was founded in 1941, but an obituary of Clifford Alvin Mettler in the Bakersfield Californian reported that the settlement was founded by him, his father,

The mainline track through Corcoran was part of a route connecting the San Francisco Bay Area to Bakersfield, California.

Lawrence Tibbett was born Lawrence Mervil Tibbet, ( with a single final " t ") on November 16, 1896 in Bakersfield, California.

Also in country music, Merle Haggard's Same Train, Different Time, a tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, was enormously popular and influenced the development of the Bakersfield sound into outlaw country within a few years.

He was arrested for attempting to rob a Bakersfield tavern in 1957 and was sent to the San Quentin state prison for three years.

In 1959, Garlits traveled to Bakersfield, California for the March Meet, then called the U. S. Fuel & Gas Championship, to show that the times he was setting were as legitimate as those set by the west coast racers.

Swamp Rat XIV was however so successful that in 1971, Garlits won two of his next three Top Fuel Eliminator titles ( the Winternats and Bakersfield ), plus a runner-up at Lions, all in the new car.

The more prominent field was at Sacramento and Monterey Streets in East Bakersfield ( at the time was primarily empty fields ).

Franklin D. Lee proved a man of prompt action when Mrs. Claire Shaefer, accompanied by a friend, visited him in Bakersfield, California, several months ago as a prospective patient.

* Bakersfield College, a college in Bakersfield, California

* 1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U. S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.

Dense Tule fog in Bakersfield, California.

** Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Line ( Bakersfield and Kern Electric ), in California

Earl grew up in Bakersfield, California where he attended Washington Junior High and Kern County High School ( now called Bakersfield High School ).

The cities of Bakersfield, California City, Maricopa, Ridgecrest, Taft, Tehachapi, and the unincorporated areas had a plurality or majority of voters registered Republican.

Remaining vernal pools include Pixley National Wildlife Refuge between Tulare, California and Bakersfield and Jepson Prairie Preserve in the delta.

Tannu Lodge is a part of Section W-3B, the best section, which spans from Eureka down to Bakersfield, California.

* Bailey, Richard C., Kern County Place Names, ( Bakersfield, California: Merchant's Printing and Lithography Co., 1967 ).

* Bailey, Richard C., Kern County Place Names, ( Bakersfield, California: Merchant's Printing and Lithography Co., 1967 ).

* The California State University system also has a satellite campus from its Bakersfield facility in nearby Lancaster at the Antelope Valley College main campus.

California State Route 65, known as The All American City Highway or Porterville Freeway, is a major north-south freeway that heads north to Lindsay and south to Bakersfield.

) There were also restaurants in Bakersfield, California, Boise, Idaho, and Nampa, Idaho.

U. S. regional office locations are Anchorage, Alaska ; Bakersfield, California ; Denver, Colorado ; Lafayette, Louisiana ; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ; Farmington, New Mexico ; Naples, Utah ; and Odessa, Texas.

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