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It's based on local facts and lies.  You get to finish every chapter introduced on the blog.  You'll find Oil-dale (the fact/fiction series) only at:

Bakersfield Sound Underground

http://www.bakersfieldsound...

Here's a sample, just to tease and frustrate the hell out of you...

Oildale
by Bruce L. Thiessen, Ph.D., aka Dr. BLT

Dale Bickert, the man they call "Oil Dale," walked into the front door of his Oildale home after a hard-day's-work out in the oil fields.  His wife, Dill, was in the kitchen with their son, Bobby, and their foreign exchange student from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Arlie Snow, who claimed to be a nephew of the late, great Canadian country singer, Hank Snow. 

The new radio show out of Marin County, Bakersfield and Beyond was playing in the background.  The show, originally streamed from http://www.kwmr.org, was being transmitted from the CB radio Bobby had in his truck.  Bobby was sitting in his truck in the garage, where he liked to hang out with his laptop computer and a six-pack of beer...

stay tuned at: 

http://www.drblt.net (soon to become drblt.com)

http://www.myspace.com/drbl...

and at Bakersfield Sound Underground

http://www.bakersfieldsound...

for new mini interactive chapters of the series.

and stay tuned to http://www.kwmr.org or on your FM dial if you're in Marin Country every second Thursday, for Bakersfield and Beyond from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, where I will meet you on the air as the Bakersfield correspondent, and where you can request tunes from me, and other kccrockers, and Bakersfield sound artists.

Visit their new blog site at: http://bakersfieldandbeyond...