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The sweet sounds of legend Roy Clark filled the Crystal Palace Tuesday night. This was the first time Clark performed at the Crystal Palace. Clark is known for co-hosting "Hee Haw" with the late Buck Owens for more than 15 years. In 1986, the famous pair parted ways as Owens started his businesses in Bakersfield.

Dwight Yoakam - in his country star iteration - brought Buck Owens to life Saturday night at the Palladium. by Christian Doellner Dwight YoakamPalladium at Center for the Performing Arts Saturday, April 28 What a difference a low-slung cowboy hat makes, especially when it’s the country music equivalent of Clark Kent’s glasses. How else to reconcile Dwight Yoakam: charismatic “honky tonk” star ...

Finally, the Bakersfield sound is getting its due in Nashville. Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and other pioneers are featured in a big new exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

Merle Haggard was the surprise participant during a Wednesday (April 11) discussion involving the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's new exhibit, The Bakersfield Sound: Buck Owens , Merle Haggard and California Country . It followed another surprise appearance the night before at the We're All for the Hall fundraising concert in Nashville.

as long as it's true - You might say Junior Brown's old-fashioned, and you wouldn't be wrong ... but you wouldn't be right either. While he definitely possesses great appreciation for classic country artists like Hank Thompson, Buck Owens, and Chet Atkins, he's just as enthused about Dick Dale or even Jimi Hendrix.

Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and other pioneers of West Coast country music are getting a much-deserved salute in Nashville with an expansive new exhibition at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

Eight years after hanging up its Stetson, this city’s most popular country music showcase is bringin’ back the twang.

His name is synonymous with one of Bakersfield's last honky tonk nightclubs.  Thomas Rockwell, owner of Trout's nightclub, is being recognized for his work giving back to local children. He is one of this year's Kern Red Cross real heroes. Trout's Nightclub has been a mainstay in country music for decades, playing host to the likes of Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and hundreds of other country ...

'The Bakersfield Sound: Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and California Country' opens at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. 'The Bakersfield Sound: Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and California Country' opens at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Buck Owens is in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Merle Haggard is in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Now, more than a half-century after the Bakersfield Sound's modest debut on the American music scene, everyone else who ever picked a guitar or twirled a dance partner in a local honky-tonk is, in a sense, in the Hall of Fame, too: the raucous, Western Swing-inspired ...

An exhibit that spotlights Buck Owens and Merle Haggard opens Friday at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville.