Stacker compiled a list of the most Shazamed songs in Bakersfield. Bakersfield has the most ranked songs (25) in common with McAllen and no ranked songs in common with 61 metros. The most seen artist ...

Merle Haggard was known for a lot of things, his influence on honky tonk being one. Here are a few songs that give that same ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — The Bakersfield Community Theatre will hold the final show of its production of "Torch Song" on Sat, June 17. "Torch Song" is a play written by Harvey Fierstein that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They stood for decades as Bakersfield's two greatest country music stars, and long after their deaths, they still wear those ...

For generations, a distinctive strain of country music has carried the name of Bakersfield far beyond Kern County, shaping ...

From 1974: Homer Joy, a country musician in residence at the Spokane House, received a “big boost in his career” when Buck Owens recorded several of his songs. One of those songs was “The Streets of ...

Right up to the end, Merle Haggard wrote songs about the people and places of his hometown. He never really forgot about all of us in Bakersfield. My favorite Merle songs are his songs about ...