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I'd like to take a moment to thank all of you for your patience.  I'm very aware of the increased demand for the Buck Owens Farewell Session CD since Channel 17 covered the CD release party on Saturday, 6/7/8. 

We're doing our best to meet the increased demand, and the local record owners are doing their best to accomodate the long lines you've had to stand in for hours in the heat. 

Oops, that was just the dreamer side of me talking.  In reality, I'm not breaking any record sales with record sales yet on this one.   But there have been some of you who have asked how they can get a copy before they're sold out, and since it is well known that I have a marked disdain for fame, and tend to fail to post that sort of information, I'm trying to turn over a new leaf here. 

Pat, who has moved his store, World Records to a brand new location, on 1824 G Street, has graciously agreed to a consignment deal, and the CD is now available there.  Interestingly enough, the song The End of the World, which appears on the CD, was written right after the story was broken that the record store, once located on Stockdale Highway and Coffee Road, was closing for good. 

In addition, Ronald, who runs a place right next door to World Records, over there at 1822 G Street, Going Underground, has also agreed to a consignment deal. 

Of course, many of you know that the CD is also available at Russo's at the Marketplace, where it was released on 6/7/8, which is also the title of the title track, with the sub-title of Prelude to Farewell. 

Soon, the CD, will be available at my website.  Right now you can only buy a few individual songs. 

Now I know there's a big dispute right here in Bakersfield over which was the last band/solo artist etc. to record at the old Buck Owens recording studios (known later as Fat Tracks, and then, Pig Studio), and I'm one of the ones being argued about. 

To set the record straight, the part of this CD that catures my session was recorded on April 2, 2008, when the studio was officially closed.  But things were being wrapped up, and, while no other solo arists has thrown his/her hat in the ring, I'm officially stepping out of the argument.  Let history decide.  I think the whole argument is both humorous, and, a testimony to the remarkable reputation this studio, and its artists have earned. 

God bless everyone who had the pleasure of recording at the old studio that is now an historic site that folks will be talking about for, years, even, decades to come.