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blognroll - > Dr BLT's Blog n Roll Studio -> Roots of Our Raisins: Do you have to be old or dead to be a Kern County country music star?
Roots of Our Raisins: Do you have to be old or dead to be a Kern County country music star?

BAKERSFIELD SOUNDoff!

Today is the big mural event in which artists honor the great legends of the Bakersfield Sound. 

What I'm about to say may sound like sour grapes.  And don't get me wrong.  I love raisins.  They are sweet and full of important nutrients.  But as it concerns the country music scene in Kern County, where are all the new grapes, that grow from the vine that is our treasured heritage?

It's great to treasure our country legends of yore, like Buck, Merle, Red, Ferlin, or Roy Nicols and Gene Moles pictured here?  But are we content to live in the past, or are we prepared to make new history as it pertains to the Bakersfield Sound.

In addition to the rather impolitically-phrased question already posed, today's other two BAKERSFIELD SOUNDoff questions are as follows:
 

1. Has the old Bakersfield Sound "family" failed in passing their skills on to a new generation of would-be stars, and have they failed in reaching out to youth to carry on their country music traditions? 

 

2.  Have Kern County kids abandoned the rich heritage of the Bakersfield Sound, and, in the process, has each would-be Kern County country star forfeited his/her opportunity and birth right in order to pursue music like that of Korn, that is completely bereft of any hint of influence that could possibly be linked to the Bakersfield Sound? 

It's blog n roll.  I provide the (mostly original) Dr BLTunes, and the topic, and you provide the conversation. 

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posted by blognroll on Friday, March 7, 2008 at 06:21 AM
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posted by witbee on Mar 7, 2008 at 07:35 AM

 BLT,

you're becoming a 1 trick pony with this topic.

There are no new country acts in B-Town right now because country music isn't very exciting. Modern country music tends to be cross-over, fusion-type stuff. It stinks out loud. The Bakersfield sound doesn't sound all that good on modern equipment. And, of course, no country acts on American Idol.

posted by hotcorner on Mar 7, 2008 at 08:07 AM

Yeah, and take Ronnie Dunn and his "Just For Men" - no one that's 53 years old has a beard with no gray - tar and feather him, and run him out of the country.

I like Jennifer Nettles, though. Sara Evans, too. I wondered how long it would take Sara to dump that Oregonian...

posted by blognroll on Mar 7, 2008 at 10:00 AM

 BLT,

you're becoming a 1 trick pony with this topic.

Well, I may be a "1 trick pony" on the subject (though I do have a few more tricks up my sleeve), as you say, but I plan to beat this dead horse until I find some answers that satisfy me. 

There are no new country acts in B-Town right now because country music isn't very exciting. Modern country music tends to be cross-over, fusion-type stuff. It stinks out loud. The Bakersfield sound doesn't sound all that good on modern equipment. And, of course, no country acts on American Idol.

Country music isn't very exciting because nobody is making it exciting.  It wasn't exciting back then either, until people like Buck Owens and the gang came around. 

If modern country music "stinks out loud," then it's up to the new generation to take it to the next level by adopting that rebellious attitude of the Bakersfield Sound era, but translating it into a sound that a new generation can relate to. 

 

posted by blognroll on Mar 9, 2008 at 06:49 AM

 Just wandering around through the "Streets" of Bakersfield.com.  It looks like you've all given me the last word, and for that, I'm grateful :) Knock on wood!


posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 07:28 AM

 Please give it a rest, I still can`t understand what you are trying at do? You are not from here , your parents were not from here, your GRANDparents were not from here, the folks that made the Bakersfield sound were from here. It`s gone my freind, it can never be again, why go through the agony of a project that will end in a product that will be inferior, what are you looking for? Just give it a rest and let us rememberit as it was before you dilute it into what you think it should be. Is there a point that you come to that you must step back and maybe you can call your mission "the new improved digital modern no hardship Bakersfield sound" . there you go....you have a mission that can be achieved, best that accept reality my son. I hope you find what you are trying to find, why can`t you just enjoy what was instead of trying to dig up something that the enviroment will NEVER be right for again? Why not be a pioneer in the new" Bakersfield we are totally funked in the economy we lived too good and now we must pay the piper" sound. Alot of heartache going on now, focus on the present issues, the past issues are the past and they only want to left alone to remember as it was.......

posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 07:43 AM

 Just a thought... I remember the first time I heard " I got a tiger by the tail". It is so vivid... I was out at the end of Cottonwood road where the East Bakersfield FFA had thier pigs, I was feeding my uncles pigs for auction at the Kern County Fair and thinking about what new tractors would be there for me to climb on and be in my own world while my uncles cried at the sale of thier pets to be butchered and take thier blue ribbons home, The corn on the cob and the cotton candy and the FACT that I could run around and do what I wanted to do with no fear at the age of 8 at the Kern County Fair and listen to the radio sitting on the pens with all the best live stock from Kern County looking at me the night before they were auctioned . Just a flash... now it`s gone.....good times no more

posted by ChicoEsquela on Mar 9, 2008 at 07:51 AM

if we were only like sweden

everyone would be readin

no stress

GDP far less

little cars

minds in jars

iambic pentameters

yards become meters

kroners

droners

norman mailer

swedish sailor

merle and buck can go

remember the swegro?

 

posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 08:09 AM

 Funk you Chiqeta

posted by ChicoEsquela on Mar 9, 2008 at 08:09 AM

 bril...............

posted by ChicoEsquela on Mar 9, 2008 at 08:18 AM

 Someone posted that Sweden is the eighth largest economy in the world:::::

1 United States 13,194,700
2 Japan 4,366,459
3 Germany 2,915,867
4 China 2,644,642 2
5 United Kingdom 2,398,946
6 France 2,252,213
7 Italy 1,852,585
8 Canada 1,275,273
9 Spain 1,225,750
10 Brazil 1,067,706
11 Russia 984,925
12 South Korea 888,267
13 India 873,659
14 Mexico 840,012
15 Australia 755,659 1
16 Netherlands 670,929
17 Turkey 401,763
18 Belgium 394,507 1
19 Switzerland 387,987
20 Sweden 384,388
 

Someone should do his homework!

 

posted by ChicoEsquela on Mar 9, 2008 at 08:22 AM

 CA alone is 12 ahead of good ol'  Sveden!

posted by drilnliftcrude on Mar 9, 2008 at 08:22 AM

 Great little rhyme!  Maybe you could get with BLT and put it to music.

Play that funky music, Chico......

posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 08:23 AM

 Hej you old piece of sheet wanna be, I`m coming back this summer and I would really like to have a beer with you!Guthries would be a nice place, you know , Guthries Alley cat come on , lets make a date you funking piece of old sheet, You are a big man at the PC , let`s have a beer. A lot of bitterness there old man, what did the Swede refuse your sexual advances, why are you so down , you are one sorry mother funker, come on, indulge me...

posted by ChicoEsquela on Mar 9, 2008 at 08:25 AM

 some swedes don't dig it though......................

a stress free progressive utopian dwellin' lot they is....

posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 08:26 AM

 Hej , you are hijacking someone elses blog, this has nothing to do with Sweden, you are a,. Start your own blogs....bitter man

posted by ChicoEsquela on Mar 9, 2008 at 08:29 AM

 don't drink

especially with those who want to be  "indulged"

ya'see, I know what that means to a stress free would be swede

funny how you bring up sex then ask me to indulge you

homey don't swing thataway

sorry

posted by randomfactor on Mar 9, 2008 at 08:30 AM

 Here's another measure Chico can brag about.  Sweden's only #13 on this list.  Pikers.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-worl d-factbook/rankorder/2187rank.html

 

posted by ChicoEsquela on Mar 9, 2008 at 08:36 AM

 do you even know what that account bal really means factor?

but move to land of the midnight swegro

we won't miss you

posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 08:36 AM

Hej , I`m very fluid , where do you live my big PC man, Ducor, my ... Hej  I know that small place, Mr Chaves lived there, hej... we can have a beer on your cow stinking patio, and look at all the little fly shiit spots on your windows, you funking old faart, i worked at a feed lot for many years , hej ... how about those fly spots in your kitchen , let`s throw a chuck steak on the barbie, you are not funking with a swede you mother funker, get off it , funk you , come on, you are at the end of your rope, funker....

posted by ChicoEsquela on Mar 9, 2008 at 08:40 AM

 hej emoney

visit factor

he can indulge you

he and his bal of trade hate America first bretheren

posted by ChicoEsquela on Mar 9, 2008 at 08:44 AM

 you seem to lust so after my rope

you are so stress free

must be nice in swutopia this time of year

posted by ChicoEsquela on Mar 9, 2008 at 08:46 AM

 bvg?

Mr. Van Arsel?

posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 08:54 AM

 Why do you follow me , are you a lonely old bitter man that no one will listen to? your place is not here any longer, you are a outdated unconformist, no one cares about your cows, no one cares about your outdated data that they can pull up on thier PC, you are history old man, you have nothing to give that anyone wants to hear, you only vomit drivel,You have a grasp of world affairs that is 20 years old, People do not want to hear that now, people are fighting for their familes and homes and just because you had a GI bill to buy a home and then exploit the undocumented workers to feed your cattle crop you are not really accepted as a voice here any longer, you are outdated  and the world is the world now, your US economy is depending on the world economy , it is not a local Earlimart economy any longer, face the facts, I`m sorry and I know you can only post from what you know, but you do not know any longer, your time is over....you are out to stud.... enjoy

posted by ChicoEsquela on Mar 9, 2008 at 08:59 AM

 someone got up on the wrong side of futon!

bvg away

fitta

posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 09:11 AM

 No someone did not, come on , give me your best shot, you are out to pasture old faart, come on, let those fingers fly on the keyboard to impress the hoards that you are the almighty OZ, you are outdated and struggleling, that is a fact old man, gotta let loose and suck it up and use your wisdom to advise the upcoming, not keep them in a state of terror, use your wisdom and enjoy that you have made it this far and are still living and "enjoying" life. We had it tough enough why try to make it so hard for our children to make it? Why? Why do you want to constantly shiit on me because I made it out of the sewer that was Bakersfield and want to return to give my offspring a chance to see the good things that are disappearing daily. Hej.. I sent my son back to Bakersfield to live what I lived and for him to experience what I grew up with, Did your dad ever take you out to Hart Park to shoot coots for dinner?Funk you... you are a bitter son of a bitcch

posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 09:17 AM

 Hej Chika, start your own thread that we can piss on and let`s leave this thread free, it`s not ours, show some repect old funker

posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 09:19 AM

 Don`t call me a fitta, you År en javla kuk huvud... come on you old faart

posted by witterpitters on Mar 9, 2008 at 09:21 AM

My goodness boys boys boys!!!!!  whew what a pessin contest this is!  I don't think the good Dr. started this blog so ya'll could get it all wet!!! 

posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 09:26 AM

 Where you go, sorry I made you cry, please start a thread that only we can funk each other on, the good people here do not  need to see our childish shiit . Come on ... where did you go, make those fingers fly on the data we can bring up, you are a sorry outdated old hasbeen, Hej I am too, let`s rumble my friend....

posted by allRED on Mar 9, 2008 at 09:29 AM

 I personally don't care how much you cuss Lynch    I would clean up some of your comments    I hate to see any  one Barred

posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 09:32 AM

 Sorry Witerpitters . I`m trying to get the old  funker to start a thread that just him and me can piss on to spare the real people that this benifits. I am really sorry that this was hijacked but I am really feed up with the shiit that is creeping into the post.Come on and let`s leave this thread alone....Old Piece of Shiit

posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 09:36 AM

 Come on... let`s get on with this... leave this thread alone....

posted by tonyh on Mar 9, 2008 at 09:38 AM

Lynch, if you're going to get yourself barred for this rant, at least you could be a little creative and throw out the insults less used. This isn't even entertaining. It sure goes a long way to showing the real YOU.

posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 09:44 AM

 Hej funk you too allred , come on , let`s get down to business and leave these people alone, they do not want the funking bullshiit that you are trying to inflect upon me, I can take care of myself, start a funking tread my friend, come on, let`s rumble, remember I am 9 hours ahead of you and must sleep some, but I am ready for your shiit, come on....

posted by drilnliftcrude on Mar 9, 2008 at 09:44 AM

 Lynch, There's nothing stopping you from starting a separate thread.

posted by ChicoEsquela on Mar 9, 2008 at 09:50 AM

 It is eminently evident that the vaunted Svedish Mental Health Care System has produced some prodigious results! 

posted by witterpitters on Mar 9, 2008 at 09:51 AM

 LYNCH:  does your sweet son know this is how you talk?  Your words certainly belie the picture of yourself you have posted - if in fact that is a picture of you.

tsk tsk

posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 10:00 AM

 Hej Tonyh, I am not doing this for you, I am doing this for all the threads that these inbred imposters try to hijack and manipulate, Funk you also as I feel that that the censorsship of this forum will  welcome a sane voice that gets rid of these outdated imposters that thrive on ridicule and terrorrist insults to keep the people from having a forum that they can post on without the threat of being made to feel like a fool by outdated and inresponsible data. There comes a time when the poepole have to take a stand against the tyrants infecting the knowledge, You desreve better than that....

posted by ChicoEsquela on Mar 9, 2008 at 10:05 AM

 uhhhh........ the GDP data is current.

Same source as Random's

Wanna refute his?

posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 10:05 AM

 Hej Chiquika, Want to meet sometime? you can bring your Allred also, come on ... I`m back in August , let`s have a good ole Bakersfield talk, you funking faggot, Come on , I am so tired of your shiit, Whatcha  say, cuunt?

posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 10:10 AM

 Hej I don`t care about your your nimble fingers, I live here and I am coming back in August, start a new thread or meet me you fagggot, quite hijacking threads, put up you old sisssy, come on , leave these people in peace,,, let`s go else whwere...

posted by allRED on Mar 9, 2008 at 10:13 AM

 Lynch       where do you happen to hang out       I wasnt trying to get into your comments with Chico     I was only trying to save you from being barred

If your in town in August        it might be nice to see you    thanks for the invite

posted by sagefever on Mar 9, 2008 at 10:20 AM

Chico~ you been lying to me all this time? No drinking? *amazed * I tell you .

posted by lynchracing9 on Mar 9, 2008 at 10:27 AM

 Started a new thread , you can come there and stop hijacking this thread, Come to me...

posted by ChicoEsquela on Mar 9, 2008 at 10:28 AM

 I did some time ago Sage.

Heifer dust and chewin wacky backy  only now!

Thought I toldja

posted by sagefever on Mar 9, 2008 at 10:36 AM

No~ but i was just trying to reroute the conversaion ;-) 

posted by NancyII on Mar 9, 2008 at 12:44 PM

 It would seem that Mr Lynch's prorfile is no longer active? 

posted by ChicoEsquela on Mar 9, 2008 at 12:51 PM

 Its only too bad people can no longer see for themselves that the true Swedish Socialistic mentality has not changed.

The Austrian Tirol Hostels actually had signs up for entering coaches:

NO SWEDES ALLOWED

I soon found out why

posted by witterpitters on Mar 9, 2008 at 12:52 PM

YAAWWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN 

posted by anglo1 on Mar 9, 2008 at 01:08 PM

 Darn.  I will miss him so.  Could have been interesting but he seems to have [ help me out here Doc.] developed an almost psychotic hate for chico and alred.  Over the top a bit. IMO.

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