Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (2012). The Bakersfield sound : Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and California country. Nashville, Tenn.: Country Music Foundation Press. 9780915608065.
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Price, Robert E. (2018). The Bakersfield sound : how a generation of displaced Okies revolutionized American music. Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday. 9781597144155.
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