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Bakersfield Country

Buck Owens and Merle Haggard led the development of the influential honky-tonk country music which emanated from the town of Bakersfield in Northern California, primarily in the 1950's and 1960's.

Here is a group of standout EMI songs by artists who have come to represent the music and the Bakersfield state of mind...

 


6 Garage Rock Classics

CATALOGUE CATALYST

At EMIMP UK we have a lot of love for our brilliantly diverse back catalogue. We want to share that love with you, so welcome to Catalogue Catalyst, where we regularly focus on artists, both current and heritage, and some of the fascinating details of their careers and releases and, of course, some of their spectacular songs...

Catalogue Catalyst Article:  Be Bop Deluxe

With a distinct blend of glam, prog, pop art and sci-fi, never knowingly under-decorated by Bill Nelson’s outstanding lead guitar lines, Be Bop Deluxe released six albums in four years, becoming one of few consistently inventive and influential rock bands to bridge the difficult years between glam’s foundation-cracked burn-out and punk’s ‘year zero’ scorched earth policy, as well as one of that era’s best live performers.

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