you shoulda experienced HIS blog!

it was a true Socialist's Utopian Rorschach!

*someone* has a capture of the page should any~one need it for defensive measures.

 He's turning me in to the Tax Assessor Monday

I'm pretty worried

Wonder which County?

 BTW, if interested:::::

Looks like he deleted the whole blog!!! 

 He did -----

Pygmalion Effect Personified!

 I still  wish we could meet     all I ask him was to clean up his post       and he jumped on me     like a fish on a cricket    

He will be back     maybe we will meet @ his camping ground       & nbsp; 

Chico we have a three some going on @ Kern River in the morning      Your welcome

 It looks like the three of us have the last word.  It seems someone got scared of the poetic justice that comes with having one's story or misbehavior told in a song.  I may not have to write that song after all.  Sometimes the threat of poetic justice works just as good as the fulfillment of that threat.  Or maybe it wasn't the song threat at all.  Whatever it was, it seems to have worked. 

 I'll chime in here before the thread is gone.  My comment has to do with the original topic of this blog although in a more general way.  I watched a show last night on Harlin Howard and a couple of other Nashville songwriters.  He brought up an excellent point that, in his opinion,  for soulful music one has to have experienced hardship and loss.  He said successful songs are written by people who have had the expererience and can put that feeling into words.  He cited examples such as Hank Williams "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry."   The Bakersfield sound was originated by people who had been through the depression, the oilfields, the wild honkey tonk days.  They had seen hunger, fear, and lonliness.  The experienced WWII and the prosperity that came from that war, money they had never had before.  Places they had never seen before.  They wrote of heartbreak, hope, loss, death, and new dreams. 

Thos experiences brought a uniqueness to it's time that can't be repeated.  Just as none of our times and world events can be repeated, neither can the dust bowl era, the war of it's day, and the aftermath of such enormous events.

Music genres, even within it's own genre, will always be everchanging.  Always reflecting the times in which it was written.  We cannot ressurect the old Bakersfield sound, all we can do is imitate it, revere it, and know that it is unique.

 Ron, when you say threesomes (which include you and I) you might want to include the word golf

Some of these people love to let their small minds run away with them   ;=)

I hear what you are saying, NancyII, but disagree, to a degree.  Of course none of us can live through the exact experience lived through by those who went before us.  But what shaped the great artists of the Bakersfield Sound was not the details of their experience, per se (though it did play a role in terms of the lyrical content of the songs), but, more important, was the feelings, or underlying emotions that went with those experiences. 

So the songs of our generation will be different, in that we all come from different places, have had a different set of experiences, and have suffered in different ways, and to different degrees.  But musicians can still retain the attitude of non-conformity that was central to the Bakersfield Sound.  And we can retain the spirit of vulnerability and spilling your guts out on the stage. 

The most common experience shared in these songs we treasure from the past is not financial stress or physical hunger, it was the experience of getting your heart broken, of loving someone so much that it hurts, and of that person cheating on you just when you needed that person most. 

These experiences don't change with the times.  And neither does the rebellious, devil-may-care non-conformity---the core attitude that was the signature of the Bakersfield Sound. 

 You actually validated my point.   That sound was born of a time and place.  The defied the Nashville sound and created their own.  It's not likely to come around again.  Everything in it's turn.

Speaking of Bakersfield boys (you weren"t?..hehe)  Check out Ron Harbin.  Born and raised in Bakersfield, a resident of TN for the last 20 years or so.

 Neither was Homer Joy a Bakersfield boy (not that I wish to compare myself to him in any real musical way).  I'm unworthy to walk the same streets.

But he walked on these streets long enough to know the bumps on the road.  Johnny Cash only spent one night in jail, but when he sang about Folsom Prison, in Folsom Prison Blues, he took everybody there.

Every genre of every generation has a distinct sound that cannot be replicated, but it can be used as a foundation to create a new sound. 

I do not look exactly like my dad, or exactly like my mom, but we share certain characteristics.  The same can be said about the music of different time periods and different geographical regions.  The new music, becomes new by taking some of the old, and putting a new twist on it. 

Also, you talk about time and place like it were concrete and static, when these are actually fluid.  You can never step in the same river twice. 

 Go back and read my first post.  "Music genres, even within it's own genre, will always be everchanging"  Time flows from one era to another.  It's not like we can say the boomers were born only between this year and that.   Nothing is ever static and nothing is ever in concrete.  Well, maybe unless it IS concrete.

You and I are in agreement for the most part.  I think we're just saying it differently.  All I'm saying is that the Nashville sound was challanged by the Bakersfield sound and is unique to it's time.  Nowdays, everything is a challange to the Nashville sound to the point that it doesn't even have a "sound" any more.

It' all about money and fame.  If it sells, they sing it or play it.  Someone today singing in the old Hank Williams style with his kinda nasally voice probably couldn't get a recond deal.  But you're right, much music has built ON that style.  Every generation brings it's own personality with it...along with some of the past.

Now I'm going to scold you for saying you are unworthy to walk the same streets as such as Homer.  Piffle.....all who put their heart into their music and put it out there for the public to hear are equal.  How many hits did he have again?  Don't sell yourself short.  I appreciate what you're trying to do with countyr music in this town and no one is sadder than I to see it fade away.

 PS...I cut my teeth (so to speak) at the Blackboard and spent my 21st birthday there.  Of all the country night clubs that were still around in the 60's, that was my favorite.

 I wish I could have been there.  Now, the only possible route to the Blackboard is via the imagination, with a little help from those that were there. 

" You can never step in the same river twice. " scary BLT~ I just finished my  next Monday post ,all about the guy who first said that,do not blow it for me,okay?