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...Bakersfield, Calif...
...MORE CRITICAL feature of the progressive country movement is that is exists mainly outside the Nashville area. Walker, Jennings and Nelson work from an Austin, Texas base, while Haggard is responsible for a Bakersfield, California sound. Nashville can provide the most sophisticated recording studios and technicians in the world, but its eminence is being superceded by studios in places like Doraville, Georgia, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where Williams recorded the major portion of his new album...
...woman who had worked 16 years in the fields described her experiences in the Bakersfield paper, saying, "The hiring hall bosses would tell us, 'we'll give you an assignment when we feel like giving you one. You can get on your knees...
...word in Austin. Indeed, by embracing rock's big beat, Austin's musicians have evolved a brand-new style of country rock, and have made the city the fastest-growing country-music center in the U.S. Nashville, still the capital of country, may provide more regular work. Bakersfield, Calif., may offer the inspirational presences of Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. But from the point of view of new sounds, freedom and plain musical fun, Austin now definitely ranks as No. 1. Within the past two years, following the lead of such veterans as Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson...
Public access can never be accused of being monotonous. The schedule in Reading, Pa., has included the regular half-hour Che-Lumumba-Jackson Collective Black Community News and a twelve-year-old budding sportscaster's report on the junior stock-car races. Bakersfield, Calif., has programmed square-dance instruction, an environmentalist appeal to save Redrock Canyon and a college spoof called Stagnet...