Bakersfield: Oil, Agriculture, and the Bakersfield Sound
Bakersfield is the county seat of Kern County, California, and the ninth-largest city in the state with over 403,000 residents. Located near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, roughly 110 miles north of Los Angeles, it sits at the crossroads of the Central Valley’s agricultural heartland and the state’s energy industry. Nicknamed “Nashville…
