[Governor Dinwiddie]

#15: Be sure to listen to Merle Haggard’s song “Kern River.”

Here you go: Merle Haggard - Kern River
 

[Jeff Chandler]

Downey boy Dave Alvin does a nice cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbtuw6ptZW4

The Kern River scene in Collateral Crimes is based upon an actual experience on the Kern River.

My brother and I both survived.