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Bakersfield sound

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Etymology

Developed in and around Bakersfield, California, during the 1950s.

Definitions

  1. A subgenre of country music developed in the West Coast and popularized during the 1950s…

    A subgenre of country music developed in the West Coast and popularized during the 1950s and 1960s, featuring Fender Telecaster guitars, a drum backbeat, fiddles and steel guitars, along with stylistic touches from rock and roll music.

    • A subgenre of country music, the Bakersfield Sound emerged out of what Merle Haggard called “the redneck honky-tonks” and what Glen Campbell termed “the fightin' and dancin' clubs” in Bakersfield, California.

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