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The Bakersfield sound is a sub-genre of country music developed in the mid-to-late 1950s in and around Bakersfield, California. [1] Bakersfield is defined by its influences of rock and roll and honky-tonk style country, and its heavy use of electric instrumentation and backbeats . [ 2 ]
In the 1960s Durham signed to Capitol Records and released several singles, including his take on the Merle Haggard song "My Past Is Present". In 1965 he was nominated for Most Promising Male Vocalist for the Academy of Country Music Awards and again in 1966 as Most Promising Vocal Group for a duet recording he did with Jeanie O'Neal.
Leonard Raymond Sipes [1] (September 28, 1930 [1] – March 14, 2000), [2] better known as Tommy Collins, was an American country music singer and songwriter. [1] Active primarily during the 1950s through the 1970s, Collins was instrumental in helping create the Bakersfield sound of the country music genre. He enjoyed a string of hits during ...
Aug. 30—Defining the brand of country music that has come to be known as the Bakersfield Sound is anything but easy. In fact, many have said it's impossible. But Bakersfield-raised documentary ...
Over the past few years, massive storms have wrecked the once-famed music venue. Before the Bakersfield sound, Fresno had ‘Nashville West.’ What became of famed barn?
The Country Music Association Awards is a major awards show in country music. Originally presented in 1988 as the Vocal Event of the Year Award, the Musical Event of the Year honor received its current name in 2004. The award recognizes a collaboration of two or more people, either or all of whom are known primarily as country artists, who don ...
Recognized as one of the original “Bakersfield Sound” pioneers, [4] he helped forge this unique and definitive sound. Driven by the piano , steel and Telecaster guitar , the Bakersfield Sound was a reaction to the early ‘50s and ‘60s sweetening of country music epitomized by the Nashville Sound .
He was the lead singer for Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music chart. He pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound, named in honor of Bakersfield, California, [1] [2] Owens's adopted home and the city from which he drew inspiration for what he preferred to call "American music". [3]