 "Louisiana Swing" was the first song recorded in the style known today as the legendary "Bakersfield sound".In the early 1960s, Merle Haggard and Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, among others, brought the Bakersfield sound to mainstream audiences, and it soon became one of the most popular sounds in country music, helping spawn country rock and influencing later country stars such as Dwight Yoakam, Marty Stuart, The Mavericks, and The Derailers.Jean Shepard, one of country music's first significant female artists, began her recording career on the West Coast in the 1950s.