Robert Price/ Reporter

Robert Price has been a writer and editor for The Bakersfield Californian since 1988. He has covered government, the oil industry, growth and development, telecommunications, entertainment and sports, among other things. He is married with two young children, including a 4-year-old daughter who thinks she's Leann Rimes.

"This project grew out of my own curiosity about the Bakersfield Sound. How did all those talented people land in Bakersfield at the same time, what was so different about what they were doing, and how, if at all, has it influenced what we hear today in country music, rock music and things in between? I found that the Bakersfield Sound was more than a just a 15-year trend in music -- it was economics and clashing cultures and a whole bunch of other things. It was just a story aching to be told. "

Felix Adamo/ Photographer

Felix Adamo was born in Tulsa, Okla., and moved to Bakersfield at the age of twelve. Attended schools locally and also attended Bakersfield College. He is the Chief Photographer for the Bakersfield Californian where he has worked for the past eighteen years. He is married to Teresa Adamo and has three sons, Cody, Hunter, and Zane. He collects Bob Wills memoriblia as a hobby.

"Being originally from Tulsa, and then moving to Bakersfield, I grew up with country music. In the late sixties, I use to attend the Buck Owens' Toys for Tots concerts at the civic and the KUZZ country picnic/concerts at Hart Park with my family. I collect Bob Wills memoribilia and on my last trip to Tulsa, I stopped in at Cain's Ballroom, the home of Bob Wills and Western Swing music."

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