The Transition to Bluegrass Music

"There were girls went crazy and we were, you know, like this nutty moment," he says. "It probably did more to wreck any kind of academic pursuit that I would have ever had." The Bakersfield Bay is about how the California sound springs forward from the Tom Joe Road in the '50s - when Buck and Merle's family end up out here in labor camps. And they bring that music from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, the Dust Bowl to the West Coast.