The Grizzly Owls were inspired by their grandparents’ journey from Oklahoma to Bakersfield, California during the Dust Bowl migration. Keeping in tradition with their roots, the duo looked to country legends such as Buck Owens and Merle Haggard in addition to writers Raymond Carver and Henry David Thoreau, spaghetti westerns of the 1960’s, and French new-wave films of Jean-Luc Godard as influences.

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