Larry's last show was a benefit concert for the Bakersfield Country Music Museum, with the Soda Crackers, at the Bakersfield Music Hall of Fame on July 30. "He just loved playing music," veteran singer and recording artist Jennifer Keel told the Bakersfield Californian, "and even though he played with several bands through the years he was always available to fill in anytime you needed him." The Kern County Sheriff's Office said it found Larry and Betty Petree deceased in the area of Proctor Boulevard and 150th Street. Buck Owens and Merle Haggard were both a part of the movement. This style of music sprung up in Bakersfield in the 1950s, marking a push against the more polished, orchestral music coming out of Nashville. Larry played pedal steel guitar, and he was part of a sub-genre of country music called the Bakersfield sound, a raucous, guitar-driven blend of rockabiliy, honky-tonk, blues and Western swing.
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