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Bakersfield sound
The
Bakersfield sound
is a
genre
of
country music
developed in the mid- to late 1950s in and around
Bakersfield
,
California
. Bakersfield country was a reaction against the slickly produced, string orchestra-laden
Nashville sound
, which was becoming popular in the late 1950s.
Buck Owens
and
The Buckaroos
,
Tommy Collins
, and
Merle Haggard
and the Strangers, are the most successful artists of the original Bakersfield sound era. Other major Bakersfield country artists include
Wynn Stewart
,
Jean Shepard
,
Susan Raye
,
Dennis Payne
and
Freddie Hart
.
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