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Bakersfield is a 2013 country music album by Vince Gill and Paul Franklin, featuring songs by Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. The album received positive reviews and reached number 4 on the Top Country Albums chart.
Bakersfield sound is a sub-genre of country music developed in California in the 1950s and 1960s. It features electric instruments, backbeats, and influences from rock and roll and honky-tonk style country.
A country song written by Homer Joy and popularized by Buck Owens in 1973. In 1988, Owens recorded a duet version with Dwight Yoakam, which became a No. 1 hit and a Bakersfield sound classic.
Buck Owens was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and band leader who pioneered the Bakersfield sound of country music. He had 21 No. 1 hits on the country chart, co-hosted Hee Haw, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room is the third studio album by American country music singer Dwight Yoakam, released on August 2, 1988. The album contains Yoakam's first two No. 1 Hot Country Singles singles. The first was "Streets of Bakersfield," a duet with country music veteran Buck Owens, who had originally released a version of the song in ...
Tommy Collins was an American country music singer and songwriter who helped create the Bakersfield sound. He had several hits in the 1950s and 1960s, and wrote songs for Faron Young, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and others.
The Buckaroos were a country music band led by Buck Owens in the 1960s and 1970s, known for the Bakersfield sound and their red, white and blue instruments. They recorded several albums, won awards, and featured notable members such as Don Rich, Merle Haggard, and Jana Jae.
The album received mixed-to-positive reviews from Country Standard Time and Allmusic, both of whom praised the musicianship. [5] [6] In 2005 after 13 years together, the Armadillos went on hiatus, playing their last show together on March 25 at Rabobank Theater in Bakersfield, CA.