For sale: A piece of California's country music history

The famed Buck Owens Crystal Palace, the place music legends together with Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, Garth Brooks and a younger Taylor Swift have performed, is up on the market, with the muse that runs the Bakersfield venue planning to checklist it for $7 million on Monday.

The nightclub, museum and steakhouse was owned by its namesake Buck Owens, the nation music trailblazer who bucked the slick industrial melodies of Nashville for a distinctly West Coast twang. Owens opened the Crystal Palace in 1996, watching it develop into a premier venue for the most important names in nation music, together with himself. Buck and the Buckaroos performed there each Friday and Saturday night time till his demise in 2006.

Jim Shaw, a member of the Buckaroos and a director of the Buck Owens Non-public Basis, stated that after 28 years of working the famed venue, the Owens household plans to step again and discover new house owners amid a difficult enterprise local weather. The inspiration stated in a press release that “since Buck’s passing in 2006, we’ve tried to take care of the excellence that he anticipated, even because it turned increasingly more tough throughout these difficult occasions of accelerating meals and labor prices.”

The venue just isn’t closing and scheduled occasions will proceed as deliberate, Shaw stated.

“It’s enterprise as normal for now,” Shaw stated. “Ideally, somebody who needs to maintain it precisely as it’s will come ahead.”

Owens’ youngest son, Johnny Owens, wrote on Fb that the household’s hope “is {that a} purchaser steps ahead with a imaginative and prescient for the long run and a reverence” for his father and the Bakersfield Sound.

The Crystal Palace, situated on Buck Owens Boulevard, is a significant tourism staple for Bakersfield. The 18,000-square-foot venue is subsequent to the town’s downtown entrance.

“It’s the No. 1 vacationer attraction in Bakersfield,” Shaw stated. “There are folks stepping ahead and we’re ready to see what occurs. I get a variety of cellphone calls. I’m anxious to see what occurs.”