Kim McAbee of Bakersfield sings a really great song. I loved seeing and hearing Kim at the Palace with Buck Owens and Buddy Owens. Here she plays with her own band.

FALLOW THE CAMERA TO A GREAT PROFESSIONAL RECORDING STUDIO WITH LOCAL CELEBRITY DR. BLT. THIS IS A GREAT FILM!!! FILMED -JUNE 2009

Lots of local talent helps out, including Rockwell from Trouts. I was not good enough for this project but feel free to check out my other posts for my strange music videos. 

Clarence White and The Bakersfield Sound, What did Buck Say? A rare film  Clarence and his family as kids at a Griffith park

[In 2003, White was accorded #41 on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".} Clarence often recorded at Bakersfield studios and played atBakersfield Honky Tonks. Clarence's song "Nashville West" and Buck Owens' "Buckaroo"- is almost the same song.

I few years back I was at the Buck Owens Crystal Palace for my birthday. My son gave Buck Owens
a napkin with the song "Made in Japan" . Buck called out my name and played the song for me with his band "The Buckaroos". Later that night I had the honor of a few words with Buck. He said that "Bakersfield was not Nashville West, it had nothing to do with Nashville, that is why it was so important to the country music rebellion back then" In truth the term was coined from a band's name in the 1960s "Nashville West was a short-lived American country music and rock quartet that was briefly together in the late 1960s. The group comprised multi-instrumentalist Gene Parsons, guitarist Clarence White, singer-guitarist-fiddler Gib Guilbeau and bassist Wayne Moore. Parsons and White left the band to join The Byrds while Guilbeau later joined the Flying Burrito Brothers." Clarence White changed the guitar sound with the Telecaster in the 1960s as Buck Owens and Don Rich did in a few years earlier. Clarence had revolutionized the acoustic bluegrass guitar styles as well.

CLARENCE FROM WIKIPIDIA

"The Kentucky Colonels

Clarence Joseph White was born on June 7, 1944 in Lewiston, Maine^[1][2]. In 1954 the family followed relatives to Burbank, California from Madawaska, Maine. That year, the White brothers (Roland, Clarence, and Eric Jr.) formed a band called the Three Little Country Boys. They soon secured a regular spot on a local radio program, and attracted the interest of country star, Joe Maphis. In 1958 the band cut their first single, and had become well enough known to land several appearances on the Andy Griffith Show. In late 1962, the Country Boys became the Kentucky Colonels.

Despite their successes, the Colonels were having a harder time making a living playing bluegrass. The folk boom had been staggered by the British Invasion in 1964, but the death blow, ironically, was dealt in mid-1965 with the release of "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the Byrds and "Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Bob Dylan. While they did attempt to experiment with electric instrumentation, this was only met with indifference from rock audiences and consternation from their folk and country fan base. By October of '65, the Colonels dissolved as an ongoing unit after playing their final show on Halloween night.

 The Byrds

After the dissolution of the Colonels, White found employment as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, playing on early records of The Monkees, and performed at night with future Byrd Gene Parsons in the group Nashville West. Along with the International Submarine Band and the Flying Burrito Brothers, the band was one of the first to play a seamless blend of country and rock in modern pop music.

White's association with the Byrds began in earnest in 1966, when he contributed his distinctive playing to former member Gene Clark's solo album Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers; he and Gene Parsons briefly joined Clark's touring band shortly thereafter. Striking up an acquaintance with Byrds bassist Chris Hillman (who played mandolin in bluegrass combo the Hillmen before electing to join the rock wave) during the Clark sessions, White contributed twangy lead guitar to two of his songs from the album Younger Than Yesterday: "Time Between" and "The Girl With No Name". Both of the country flavored songs were a bit of a stylistic departure for the group, who until that point had rarely strayed from folk or psychedelic rock. White was invited back to record a lead guitar solo for "Change is Now" on The Notorious Byrd Brothers. With its utilization of echo and delay and emphasis upon texture rather than melody, the piece has been favorably compared to the later work of Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois.

White would also contribute to Sweetheart of the Rodeo, the group's Gram Parsons-led foray into traditional honky-tonk which has become a landmark, iconic recording. White's innovative and unusual string bending and sense of timing played a key role in the album's remarkable instrumentation which sounds as fresh and exciting today as when it was recorded. White's guitar licks on that record, with Lloyd Green's and Jaydee Manness's pedal steel playing, have become legendary, particularly his solos on "The Christian Life", "One Hundred Years from Now", and "The Blue Canadian Rockies".

After the abrupt departure of Gram Parsons in 1968, with Hillman following not long after, White was finally invited to join the reconstituted Byrds in September 1968, remaining until the group was finally dissolved by Roger McGuinn in 1973. The White-era group (McGuinn, White, Gene Parsons, and bassists John York & Skip Battin), while never held in the same esteem as the original band and often dismissed as being little more than McGuinn and his backing band, would maintain a loyal following into the early 70s and record five albums to somewhat favorable reception. However, while the original group's ability to play live was often questioned, the latter-day Byrds – propelled by the intertwining lead/rhythm guitars of White and McGuinn – were considered to be one of the live powerhouses of the epoch (see Live at the Fillmore - February 1969). Never one to abandon his roots, White was well-known for downplaying his onstage virtuosity, maintaining the stern "poker face" composure common amongst bluegrass musicians.

Despite being on the road for the majority of the year (poor business decisions had left the band wallowing in debt, forcing McGuinn to continue to use the Byrds moniker and interminable stretches of road work), White continued to play sessions during his Byrds tenure, alternating with Ry Cooder as guitarist on Randy Newman's 12 Songs and collaborating with the insurgent singer-songwriter Jackson Browne on his albums. Periodically fronting the group, White sang the Browne composition "Jamaica Say You Will" on Byrdmaniax and the bluegrass standard "Farther Along", providing the title for the group's final album.

[edit] Post-Byrds and death

By 1972, the pace of the group had slowed down considerably; while they would mount two more tours with percussionist Joe Lala on board for the band's farewell show, much of McGuinn's attentions had been diverted to a possible reunion of the original Byrds, contingient on his disbanding of the "other" Byrds. After fulfilling their final obligations in early 1973, the Clarence White-era Byrds broke up.

White remained busy throughout early 1973. In addition to more Browne sessions, he joined with Peter Rowan, David Grisman, fiddler Richard Green and banjo player Bill Keith to form the bluegrass supergroup Muleskinner. The group was scheduled to back up Bill Monroe on a TV broadcast, but ended up performing on their own when Bill's bus broke down on the way to the show. The band played anyhow and the live tapes once thought lost have reappeared and been released in recent years. Shortly after the concert, they made some preliminary recordings, all of which were in the vein of contemporary bluegrass or "newgrass".

His final road jaunt was a three-date "country-rock" package tour with the likes of Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, and Chris Etheridge. Even though they had presumably been acquainted with one another in the past, Parsons and White would develop a fast friendship after what was by all accounts a very acrimonious re-acquaintance.

White died on July 15, 1973^[3] after being struck by a drunk driver. The accident occurred shortly after 2 a.m., while he and his brother Roland were loading equipment into their car following a spur-of-the moment reunion gig of the Colonels.^[4] Especially shaken by his death was Gram Parsons, who would lead a singalong of "Farther Along" at the funeral service and conceive his final song before his own death, "In My Hour of Darkness," as a partial tribute to White.

Clarence White is survived by his brothers Roland and Eric and sisters JoAnne and Rosemarie, one daughter, Michelle, and her five children.

[edit] Musical influence

Clarence White helped popularize the acoustic guitar as a lead instrument in bluegrass music.^{[citation needed]} With few exceptions, prior to White, the guitar was strictly a rhythm instrument.^{[citation needed]} Tony Rice cites White as his primary musical influence. Rice owns and plays White's highly modified 1935 Martin D-28. David Grier and Russ Barenberg are two other acoustic guitarists who were heavily influenced by White's guitar work.^[5]

On the electric side of the guitar spectrum, White was similarly influential.^{[citation needed]} With fellow Byrd Gene Parsons, White invented the B-Bender device. This device raises the b (second) string of the guitar a whole step by the use of pulleys and levers attached to the upper strap knob and the second string on the guitar. It is activated by pushing down on the neck, and produces a "pedal steel" type sound. Subsequently, his Telecaster sound became as notable as his bluegrass playing. Marty Stuart, another guitarist influenced by White's playing, now owns and regularly plays White's 1954 Fender Telecaster with the prototype B-Bender.^[6]"

In 2003, White was accorded #41 on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

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This video shows some of the Bakersfield sound in my song of the same name. Note the addition of Clarence White whom has been left out of the story until now. He was in the 1960s band "Nashville West" he invented the B bender and the style used by most pickers today both in country and in bluegrass. This one is for you Clarence R.I.P.

With this video I wanted toshow the inner termoil of the mind during PTSD .

When I was in Jr High and High school I had a crush on Cherie Currie, whom was in my classes. She became a rock star and I went to Bakersfield.  I was offered to play a small roll in the movie but coudn't get off work. Someone is playing me in the movie, she actually turned me down when I asked her out back then,  The youtube here was written and performed by me for Cherrie, with her permission 

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