Buck Owens
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will open a new exhibit,
The Bakersfield Sound: Buck
Owens, Merle Haggard and California Country, on March 23. Narrated by
Dwight
Yoakam, the exhibit will explore the roots, heyday and impact of the loud, stripped-down and radio-ready music most closely
identified with the careers of Country Music Hall of Fame members Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. The grand opening weekend
will be highlighted by a March 24 panel discussion featuring Dallas Frazier, Don Maddox (of the
Maddox
Brothers & Rose), singer and TV personality Buddy Mize, singer-songwriters Rose Lee Maphis and Red Simpson and Country
Music Hall of Fame member
Jean Shepard. Later that afternoon, all of the panelists will
participate in a concert, headlined by Simpson, backed by West Coast bandleader and guitarist Deke Dickerson and other noted
musicians from Tennessee and California. The 5,000-square-foot exhibit will run through 2013.
