Download or read book The Bakersfield Sound written by Robert E. Price and published by Heyday.ORIM. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immersive look at the country music sub-genre, from its 1950s origins to its heyday to the twenty-first century. In California’s Central Valley, two thousand miles away from Nashville’s country hit machine, the hard edge of the Bakersfield Sound transformed American music during the later half of the twentieth century. Fueled by the steel twang of electric guitars, explosive drumming, and powerfully aching lyrics, the Sound transformed hard times and desperation into chart-toppers. It vaulted displaced Oklahomans like Buck Owens and Merle Haggard to stardom, and even today the Sound’s influence on country music is still widely felt. In this fascinating book, veteran journalist Robert E. Prince traces the Bakersfield Sound’s roots from Dust Bowl and World War II migrations through the heyday of Owens, Haggard, and Hee Haw, and into the twenty-first century. Outlaw country demands good storytelling, and Price obliges; to fully understand the Sound and its musicians we dip into honky-tonks, dives, and radio stations playing the songs of sun-parched days spent on oil rigs and in cotton fields, the melodies of hardship and kinship, a soundtrack for dancing and brawling. In other words, The Bakersfield Sound immerses us in the unique cultural convergence that gave rise to a visceral and distinctly California country music. Praise for The Bakersfield Sound “A savvy blend of personal anecdotes and broader historical narrative.” —Kirkus Reviews “This book all but reads itself. Price’s sense of history, his command of facts, his sense of humor, his sensitivity to class and race, and a love of the music—it’s all here.” —Greil Marcus

Download or read book Indy Oh Indy Presents written by Teresa Adamo and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the alphabet as your guide, visit the places and things you know and love in and around Bakersfield, California. This sweet story - by the creators of the Indy, Oh Indy series - was written for our youngest Indy Pack members. But we'd like to think there's a little something in Indy, Oh Indy presents: Bakersfield A to Z for everyone who's ever walked the streets of Bakersfield. We hope you do too!

Download or read book Historic Kern County written by Chris Brewer and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What My Mother Doesn t Know written by Sonya Sones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Sophie. This book is about me. It tells the heart-stoppingly riveting story of my first love. And also of my second. And, okay, my third love, too. It's not that I'm boy crazy. It's just that even though I'm almost fifteen I've been having sort of a hard time trying to figure out the difference between love and lust. It's like my mind and my body and my heart just don't seem to be able to agree on anything.

Download or read book Bakersfield Mist written by Stephen Sachs and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maude, a fifty-something unemployed bartender living in a trailer park, has bought a painting for a few bucks from a thrift store. Despite almost trashing it, she’s now convinced it’s a lost masterpiece by Jackson Pollock worth millions. But when world-class art expert Lionel Percy flies over from New York and arrives at her trailer home in Bakersfield to authenticate the painting, he has no idea what he is about to discover. Inspired by true events, this hilarious and thought-provoking new comedy-drama asks vital questions about what makes art and people truly authentic.

Download or read book Indy Oh Indy written by Teresa Adamo and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although certainly not a "dog whisperer," author Teresa Adamo nevertheless talks to her adopted terridoodle. Over the years, these chats often included lighthearted theories about Indy's life before reaching her "forever home" in Bakersfield, California. As a former newspaper reporter and editor, Teresa longed to write the story of Indy's origins - even if just as a children's book. What resulted is an ode to the sweet shelter dog as well as a tribute to Bakersfield itself. The author and her husband, Felix, live in the city's Westchester neighborhood and have four sons, Cody, Hunter, Zane, and Cooper. Their backyard is also home to the lowest maintenance pet ever - Tele, a tortoise. Indy joined the pack in 2008. -A portion of the proceeds from Indy, Oh Indy: Wanderin' the Streets of Bakersfield will benefit the Kern County Animal Shelter and the Bakersfield SPCA.

Download or read book Bakersfield written by Robert Price and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bakersfield was established in 1863 in the western shadow of the Sierra Nevada at the intersection of two of the country's defining events: the California Gold Rush and the Civil War. Bakersfield's first generation of pioneers--gold-seekers, Southern sympathizers, and European immigrants--tamed the region's confluence of swamps and built a frontier town. Over the next century, the town at the southern tip of California's San Joaquin Valley produced a noteworthy array of heroes, poets, leaders, and scoundrels, including the most influential Supreme Court chief justice in the nation's history, two best-selling country artists, decorated athletes, brilliant innovators, and corrupt lawmen. Founded by Col. Thomas Baker, Bakersfield prospered atop fertile soil unmatched anywhere on the planet and crude oil reserves that had few peers. During the Dust Bowl migration, it became a beacon of hope to the refugees of the nation's most dire ecological disaster and, consequently, a unique region that writer Gerald Haslam came to call the Other California. Today, Bakersfield is California's ninth-largest city and among its fastest-growing. The story of its first century is presented here in words and pictures.

Download or read book Civil Rights in Bakersfield written by Oliver Rosales and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multiracial history of civil rights coalitions beyond the farm worker movement in twentieth-century Bakersfield, California.

Download or read book Bakersfield Guitars written by Willie Moseley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From out of the dust of California's San Joaquin Valley . . . The Ventures only endorsed Mosrite guitars for about five years. But the legendary instrumental band's use of the upstart guitar line in the mid-1960s was and is, for many musicians, the first band-brand affiliation they remember. That saga is part of the iconic guitar boom during that decade, which changed the American music scene forever. California's guitar-centric surf music genre was going strong in the early part of that decade . . . but there ain't no surf in Bakersfield, where numerous instrument builders and innovators were toiling in the gritty and dusty clime of Kern County. Bakersfield Guitars: The Illustrated Historycontains the compelling chronologies of numerous intriguing, born-in-Bakersfield guitar brands, including Mosrite, Hallmark, Gruggett, Standel (three different manufacturers), Encor, Epcor, Dobro (by Mosrite), GM Custom, Melobar, Osborne, and Acoustic. Among the noted musicians whose recollections are documented here are Marshall Crenshaw, Tommy Shaw, Jorma Kaukonen, Jeff Carlisi, Fred Newell, Ed King, Chuck Seaton, Eugene Moles, Jim Shaw, Tim Bogert, Davie Allan, Jackson Smith, and others.

Download or read book Endangered Species Act Bakersfield California written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Task Force on Endangered Species and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.

Download or read book Soil Survey Bakersfield Area California written by Ralph Chase Cole and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Little Dramas of Old Bakersfield written by Rush Blodget and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About Little Dramas Little Dramas of Old Bakersfield may seem but a light and whimsical work. It is not. There is a great deal of true sentiment there, much original history, and a trove of keen observation. This may have been Rush Blodget's only published work, but it was not his only writing. He was our family historian and genealogist par excellence, and his interest and output was phenomenal. He collected information and printed exhaustively after doing his own careful research; interviewing and corresponding with ancient pioneers, collecting letters, faded photographs and mementos, and then organizing them all for his descendants. Little Dramas. gives amazingly accurate picture of our town in its rough early days. And it isn't the famous names-Father Garces, Col. Baker-who make it so, but the motley cast of local characters he has pulled from his memory. The book clearly describes the connections to the gold mines and oil wells, the political struggles and the many personalities living in the area. Upon reading the serious historians-Dr. Boyd, Richard Bailey, Frank Latta-I began to know the early inhabitants quite well. Rush's Little Dramas. let me see Bakersfield in a new light. His insights were fresh and unique, putting life into people who were stiff and formal in official histories. Every reading revealed more layers, and still does. I am sure there will be always those who are interested in Bakersfield's early days and will be pleased as I am to see it reprinted.

Download or read book Bakersfield Boys Club written by Anne Da Vigo and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bakersfield Boys Club is a thriller about one woman's fight against abuse of power. Suzanne, a widow raising her teenage son, Danny, finds her murdered neighbor. She learns Danny attended the party where the man died. More murders occur. The boy is trapped in the coils of The Club, a group of powerful men who will do anything to keep their secrets

Download or read book Reindeer in Here Book Plush written by Adam Reed and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At holiday time, a special little reindeer with mismatched antlers shows up as an early gift from Santa to stay with a child and learn their true Christmas wishes all the while encouraging them to celebrate their own differences.

Download or read book The Myth of the Free Market written by Mark Anthony Martinez and published by Kumarian Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Explains how the 2008 financial meltdown came about and how to revitalize global and domestic economies * Shows how capitalist economies developed and why the state matters in their functioning Free market purists claim that the state is an inefficient institution that does little for society beyond providing stability and protection. The activities related to distributing resources and economic growth, they say, are better left to the invisible hand of the marketplace. These notions now seem tragically misguided in the wake of the 2008 market collapse and bailout. Mark Martinez describes how the flawed myth of the "invisible hand" distorted our understanding of how modern capitalist markets developed and actually work. Martinez draws from history to illustrate that political processes and the state are not only instrumental in making capitalist markets work but that there would be no capitalist markets or wealth creation without state intervention. He brings his story up to the present day to show how the seeds of an unprecedented government intervention in the financial markets were sown in past actions. The Myth of the Free Market is a fascinating and accessible introduction to comparative economic systems as well as an incisive refutation of the standard mantras of neoclassical free market economic theory.

Download or read book The Journal of the Senate During the Session of the Legislature of the State of California written by California. Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journals of the Legislature of the State of California written by California. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 2270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: