just a hotbed of country music, and it was raw, it was not influenced by what was on the radio, so a lot of unique stuff came out of this area. americans had been migrating to california for decades and centuries, in fact. then comes this catastrophic event in the plain states, in oklahoma and kansas and arkansas, the dust bowl, this natural devastation of agriculture. and a lot of people, okies we came to call them, had relatives back in california and they would write back, call, and say is there work out there for me. they d say come on out. so from about 1935 through 1950 people from the midwest, southern midwest came to california, and they brought their music with them. they brought their religious sensibilities, a more fundamentalist religious perspective, they brought conservative politics to a great extent, and they changed the way california is. i just blowed in and i got them dust bowl blues i just blowed in and i got them dust bowl blues i just blowed
history of communities throughout the country with the help of our local cable partners. today we feature the music of several of these cities. i got warm blisters on my heels trying to find me something better here on the streets of bakersfield i think that this area became a hotbed of this kind of music from the types of people that were in the valley during the depression and the dust bowl, people left arkansas and texas and oklahoma and came to california. they all brought their music with them and bakersfield became just a hotbed of country music, and it was raw, it was not influenced by what was on the radio, so a lot of unique stuff came out of this area. americans had been migrating to california for decades and centuries, in fact. then comes this catastrophic event in the plain states, in oklahoma and kansas and arkansas, the dust bowl, this natural devastation of agriculture. and a lot of people, okies we came to call them, had relatives back in califo
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