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I drove alone on New Year’s Eve to the Rustic Rail, a recently opened Oildale honky-tonk. I was intent on seeing the Soda Crackers, one of my favorite local bands.

Before starting his acoustic Neil Diamond tribute gig on a celebrity cruise ship awhile back, actor Robert Neary explained to the audience what they should expect. In particularly apt fashion,

Where can we experience some of that authentic, working-class, twangy Bakersfield culture? The question has been posed to me more times in the past quarter-century than I can say. Maybe

Thank you for validating my dream to honor, resurrect and celebrate our Bakersfield Sound legacy. But I respectfully disagree with Robert Tafoya on where we should encourage these music venues

Can one city ever have too many music venues and dance halls, too much toe-tapping and foot-stomping music? I don’t think so, certainly not if it’s the Bakersfield Sound that