It took an invitation to appear at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum for Don Maddox to realize the impact he's had on American music. "The Bakersfield Sound: Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and California Country" opened and is set to run through the end of next year. It explores the music, performers, venues and cultural factors that came together to make the California town a force in country music.
Maddox is the remaining member of the Maddox Brothers and Rose, the children of an Alabama sharecropping family who moved to California in 1933 and became a precursor to the honky-tonk movement that shaped the Bakersfield Sound.
"I'd never felt like a country star," Maddox says. "But everyone in Nashville treated me like one."
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