 Other major Bakersfield country artists include Jean Shepard, Tommy Collins, Susan Raye, Joe Maphis, and Freddie Hart.The Bakersfield sound was developed at honky-tonk bars such as "The Blackboard", and on local television stations in Bakersfield and throughout California in the 1950s and 1960s.The town, known mainly for agriculture and oil production, was the destination for many Dust Bowl migrants and others from Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and parts of the Midwest.