Dr BLT's Blog n Roll Studio
an innovative fusion of music and discussion centering around a variety of topics
A blog about Arts & Entertainment, Health & Wellness, and Kern County.
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I'm honestly not trying to start a new fad. It's simply the boredom talking.
In blog n roll, I provide the tunes and the topic and you provide the talk. But every once in awhile we mix things up so they won't become too boring, or too predictable. In this case, I'm providing the art, if it could actually be considered art, in the mind of the art purest. The music you are hearing, is secondary, to accompany the visual music.
If you want to hear my cover of...
It's as simple as that. There are two prizes that may be earned in this, the blog n roll game of the afternoon. If you correctly guess whether this is a mere rumor, unsubstantiated by fact, or a true statement, you win the first copy of the song, if and when it is released as an mp3
If you take it to the next level, correctly identifying the Beatles song(s) and Buck song(s) to be supposedly included in the medley, you win an autographed copy of the song on a CD-R.
Well,...
Songs provide emotionally-compelling avenues for learning to take place. It's not hard to find songs that illustrate key principles or points, and songs do it in a way that allows the material to be more efficiently digested.
Right now, I'm teaching a Personality Theories course. My students are learning about personality through the personalities expressed in the songs associated with the Bakersfield Sound.
Next week, I will perform the song you're hearing right now (if...
More accurately, it's my new bakobilly krock tune. Krock is a term I coined (after having a couple of beers) to describe a new form of Kern County country rock. Bakobilly is my flavor of distinctly Bakersfield rockabilly. "Kross" the two and you've got bakobilly krock.
The song can be found on my forthcoming CD, From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard Drive.
Stay tuned here:
http://www.drblt.net
Yes, I've been...
There you have it. All you have to do is answer these two to be declared our big winner for this morning's BAKERSFIELD SOUND Trivia Quest QUESTion.
I'd like to introduce my new one-man band. This is Dr BLT and the Bitter Clingers (aka me) playing a little bit of my new blog n roll prospective hit, One Hand on my Bible (The Other on my Gun). It's time to play blog n roll. You know the rules if you've travelled this territory before. I provide the topic and tunes and you provide the talk. Today, I'm asking you if there's a contradiction between Obama's...
You're looking at the Derailers CD, Under the Influence of Buck, a collection of Buck Owens cover tunes by the band.
The winner gets a copy of my song, Under the Influence of Buck, on mp3, along with the bigger prize of the self-satisfaction that comes with a vast fund of knowledge concerning the history and evolution of the Bakersfield Sound.
What Buck Owens' hit written by Johnny Russell and Voni Morrison was covered by the Beatles?
Today's gift to the winner will be the self-satisfaction that comes with having a vast fund of knowledge about the Bakersfield Sound and the history and evolution of that sound.
Ready? Set? Blog n roll!
Welcome to Ferlin Husky's Freudian Slips. I'm your host, Dr. BLT. Today we're taking a closer look at the lyrics to a great Ferlin Husky song, written by Fred Rose. You might say it's a song about the thorns that come with the roses of love.
Afraid to tell you how much I care.
Afraid I'll need you and you won't be there.
I'd love to take you in to my heart.
But something tells me we would only part.
I loved and lost just one love ago.
I paid the cost and it...
Welcome to a Billy Mize Mental Health Moment. I'm Dr BLT, and I'll be the host of this blog n roll moment. In blog n roll, I supply the topic and tune and you supply the talk. Today's topic is Freud's concept of oral fixation as illustrated in one of Billy Mize's biggest hits, Who Will Buy the Wine.
The Oral stage is the very first stage introduced in Freud's psychosexual stages of development. It takes place from the ages of birth to 1 year of age (involving...
Welcome to A Merle Haggard Mental Health Moment, where the songs of Bakersfield and Oildale's own Merle Haggard are examined in search of mental health nuggets of knowledge. I'm Dr. BLT and I'll be your blog n roll host. Today we examine the lyrics to Every Fool has a Rainbow.
I would like to take a look at the lyrics of this song in light of the theories of Erich Fromm, who believed that the evolution of Western civilation, and industrialization, in particular, has brought...
I've still only spent about as much time drinking as Johnny Cash has spent in jail. (Well, I suppose you can double that after yesterday's birthday party at Trout's).
So, with so little beer-drinking experience under my belt (no pun intended) why am I suddenly into writing beer-drinking songs? Well, as I mentioned in a previous blog, when you're a songwriter, you get to add a little fiction to reality, in an effort to keep people guessing, and gossiping.
...
Billy, I'm sure you've got much better things to do, but in the unlikely event that you're in the blogosphere here tonight, here's your new birthday song, sung one more time for you here. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BILLY BOY!
Of course, you own a copy of the song, so you can listen to it anytime you like, if you like it.
BTW, I ate the guitar strings on the top fret of this guitar cake.
Here's your hint. He turned one year older today and there was a big birthday celebration for him at Trout's in Oildale.
The winner, that is, the first one to provide the correct answer, will win a free mp3 copy of the new Dr BLTune, Billy Mize Lullabies.
I've spent about as much time drinking as Johnny Cash spent in jail, but when it comes to writing songs, you get to take lots of liberties and you get to write songs from the perspective of other real characters or fictional characters you create. But enough of the disclaimer. Let's get on with it.
It's blog n roll time once again. I'm your blog n roll host, Dr. BLT. In my game of blog n roll, I provide the topic and the tunes, and you provide the talk....
There's just one more day until we all get a chance to celebrate the birthday of Billy Mize over at Trout's. You may have heard my birthday song for Billy. Well here's another song that tells a story of one fan's reliance on the man and his music. It's called Billy Mize Lullabies, and you can sample it by hitting the play bar in the music play station above my picture.
It's from my forthcoming CD, From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard Drive.
Stay tuned at:...
It's only today for 4 more minutes, so let's see if I can pull this off.
Billy Mize Lullabies
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008
when she was just a baby
mama put her to sleep
with Billy Mize lullabies
now she's a grown-up lady
in war
she lost her guy
so she's returned to those old lullabies
chorus:
dry your eyes
dry your eyes
say a prayer
this ain't no time to cry...
The oil and gas companies are taking us for a ride---a very expensive ride. And we're all taking it in stride. ENOUGH!
I wanted to give people a way to protest the recent insane rise in gas prices while venting off a little steam. Here are lyrics to a song I plan to release tomorrow, or the next day, or the next. It's called...
I'm Gonna Kick Your Gas
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008
I'm gonna kick your gas
I'm gonna ride my horse
I'm...
This is the actual photograph of the broken hand referred to in the story.
The story is contained in the song, so I won't be redundant by telling it here again. It's a remarkable story about coping and rising above one's misfortunes. It's a real story about a real person I met on the Streets of Bakersfield---those golden streets Homer Joy and Buck Owens put on the map with their song---The Streets of Bakersfield.
In this game I call blog n roll, I provide the topic and the...
Happy Birthday, Billy Boy
(a Billy Mize Birthday Surprise)
Words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008
Happy Birthday, Billy Boy
Through the years, you’ve brought us joy
Who will buy the birthday wine?
Gather round, it’s time to dine
TV personality
Country star from Bako streets
Real deal, and the real McCoy
Happy Birthday…Billy boy
Old Herb Henson’s Trading Post
Raise your glass let’s have a toast
Featured on Chuck Wagaon Gang...
In Shellie Banco's interview with Mike Ness of Social Distortion, in today's Bkaersfield Californian, he says the following, "Merle Haggard is probably more of a rebel than Sid Vicious ever was."
http://www.bakersfield.com/...
Punks, post-punks, Bakersfield Sound traditionalists, nu Bako Sound nubies, Krockers (nu Kern County country rockers), this debate is all yours. Even if you're not a musician at all, but simply a fan of the old or nu...
He's coming to Bakersfield. He'll be at Fishlips on Friday at 8 pm. He was featured in the Eye Street section of the Bakersfield Californian today. He's made a bold pronouncement that country music is dead.
Here he is quoted in today's paper: "As far as what country music used to be, that word is dead. They've succeeded in strangling it. It's the snake that finally ate it's entire body."
In your opinion, is he right? If so, will the...
Happy Birthday, Billy Boy
(a Billy Mize Birthday Surprise)
Words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008
Happy Birthday, Billy Boy
Through the years, you’ve brought us joy
Who will buy the birthday wine?
Gather round, it’s time to dine
TV personality
Country star from Bako streets
Real deal, and the real McCoy
Happy Birthday…Billy boy
Old Herb Henson’s Trading Post
Raise your glass let’s have...
The latest Dr BLTune they've added to the "menu" is Average White Guy.
One good turn deserves another. They've linked to me, now I'm linking to them. This is a great place to hang out. They offer some great information and some great political food for thought, whether you're conservative, liberal, or somewhere in the middle.
Thanks Capitol Coffee House!
http://capitolhillcoffeehou...
No, it wasn't recorded "live" in a Pennsylvania bar, but it was in my imagination. In reality, it was rather roughly recorded and mixed in the "BuckarooM" at my house. In my world of blog n roll, I supply the topic and the tune.
Today's tune is a brand new mix of my hick hop "hit," Average White Guy (a prospective hit, to be precise). It's from my forthcoming CD, From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard Drive, scheduled for...
I didn't catch his name, so I just call him 37 Cent. I was driving on the way to work yesterday. As I pulled up to the intersection of Buck Owens Boulevard and 24th, just off of the freeway, I saw this man, gave him a buck (no pun intended) and asked him if I could take his picture so that I could spread the word about his need for money. He agreed, and the rest is his story, contained in the song you are listening to, (if you hit the play bar at the play station...
Bunkccrock: BUNK-ROCK: Buck-owens-based Kern county country punk rock.
Related terms:
Krrockabilly: KROCK-A-BILLY: A local Kern Country country rock artist, or an outsider, grounded in the Bakersfield Sound, whose musical style represents a mixture of Nu Kccrock (Kern County Rock), rockabilly, and a flavor of the old Bakersfield Sound.
Krrock-a-dile: A krrockabilly tune as a cell phone ringtone.
Krrockabilly: KROCK-A-BILLY: A local Kern Country country rock artist, or an outsider, grounded in the Bakersfield Sound, whose musical style represents a mixture of Nu Kccrock (Kern County Rock), rockabilly, and a flavor of the old Bakersfield Sound.
bonus terms:
Krrock-a-dile: A krrockabilly tune as a cell phone ringtone.
It looks like Obama has inspired another country song.
One Hand on my Bible/The Other on my Gun (Bitter)
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008
I got on hand on my Bible
the other on my gun
'bin told that I am bitter
but there's no need to run
I may throw my big Bible
but the gun is just for fun
I've got one hand on my Bible
the other on my gun
I got one foot on a grave stone
and one foot on the ground
I'm rooted in the music
of the...
Last night's gig at Starbucks on Rosedale Highway and Calloway was well attended, by a wide rage of age groups (the youngest being my daughter (seen here) who will turn 3 in July. with a wide-range of musical style preferences. Dubbed Coffee as Art, it was all for a good cause---to raise money for cancer treatment and prevention via Relay 4 Life.
It led the Starbucks powers that be to envision similar events in the near future where yours truly and band members,...
I felt like I was treading on holy ground. After catching the announcement on the Bakotopia blog about the jam session/songwriter's workshop at Trout's, I said to myself, "Why not?" and headed over there on Monday, April 14.
I was directed down this rickety old staircase into a little cellar and what I was about to witness in this humble hole in the ground was nothing short of phenomenal. I can honestly say it was one of the best evenings of my entire life.
Lloyd...
Or the next day, or the next. Welcome to Lyric today/Hear it Tomorrow. This one comes straight from my heart:
Music is my Blessing, and My Curse
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008
music my blessing, my curse
music---every chorus, every verse
the good Lord surely blessed me
but the blessing really hurts
music my blessing my curse
music was the mistress
she despised
my first wife
'nearly ruined
both our lives
but music
helped to get me
through...
It feels like God has simultaneously blessed and cursed me with the bittersweet "gift" of music---songwriting, to be specific, and to be more accurate. "Musicians" are much more polished and precise. But I thank him because, overall, music has been a huge blessing, if overwhelming at times.
As I've mentioned before, I wake up in the morning with a head full of traffic that comes in the form of new song material. The songs keep coming to me...
Lyrics Today/Hear it Tomorrow
Well, in the case of this one, I'm going to take my time and make sure it sounds just right before I record it.
Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes?
New lyrics by Dr BLT,adapted from George Jones's big hit,
Original Words and Music by T. Seals and M.D. Barnes
You know this old town is full of singers,
But just a few are chosen.
To tear your heart out when they sing.
Imagine life without...
I was in the process of establishing my playlist, and a patient came in talking to me about his dreams and about how they related to quintessential theories Carl Jung's book, Memories, Dreams and Reflections.
In order to encourage his patient, a remarkable poet, to begin drawing upon dream material for his poems, I performed this song. It's a song about a dream that came to me one April 19th about 7 years ago, while I was living in Sacramento. It involves...
BAKERSFIELD SOUND Trivia Quest: Picture the Sound Edition
If you are new to the blog n roll studio, here's how you play the game. I provide the tune and topic-------you provide the talk.
Here's your clue to today's Bakersfield Sound Trivia Quest question:
http://www.tollbooth.org/20...
The second question is easier than the one I've already introduced in the subject line:
Who is this man, and what historical role did he play during the...
I took this photo at the Crystal Palace on Saturday, April 12, 2008. I call it Passing the Torch. There's an old star from the Bakersfield Sound era pictured here, and a young star, currently hot on the country charts. The other guy is someone I met at Homer Joy's birthday party that I have little knowledge about.
Identify the classic artist and the artist with one boot firmly planted in the Bakersfield Sound of yore, and one boot into the future.
In the game of blog n roll, I supply the topic and the tune and you supply the talk. Today's topic is the inspiration behind the song you are hearing from the play station on the top left-hand corner of this blog post if you've hit the play bar.
Simply answer the question to the best of your knowledge. You are allowed to call one friend, or to pool the audience.
The winner will receive a free mp3 copy of this song.
The Songbird...
Relay for your Life: Learn this song and sing it with me at Starbuck's relay for life event Thursday
What's a relay without a theme song? Well, the Relay for Life events would probably do quite well without me, but to set the tone for my contribution to the events, I would like to introduce this new theme song.
Hear it by hitting the play bar at the play station above the icon in the upper left-hand corner of this post. Learn it, if you like, and sing it at my performance at Starbucks, on Rosedale Highway just east of Calloway, right next to Wendy's at the Target/Kohl's...
Here's a story from the series inspired by Homer Joy's Streets of Bakersfield, made popular by the late, great Buck Owens.
There's an apparent contradiction in the story-line embedded in the lyrics of the song. Your job today, as you play my game of blog n roll is to find the apparent contradiction, and try to resolve it with an explanation.
In blog n roll, I provide the topic and the tune, and you provide the talk. To play the tune (from my forthcoming CD...
BAKERSFIELD SOUND Trivia Quest: PICTURE THE SOUND edition: When was I last served Cake at the Palace
It's still your birthday for 2 minutes, so have a Happy 2, Homer! Oh, it's now 1 minute. I better hurry!
Here's your hint:
http://www.tollbooth.org/20...
That is the question, and it's an easy one for many. The first one to get it correct wins a front-row pass to my Relay for Life Performance at Starbucks on Rosedale Highway near Calloway, next to Wendys this Thursday, April 17 at 6 pm.
Ready, set, blog n roll!
Yes, it's another birthday, thank God, for Homer Joy. He's a terrific songwriter who penned The Streets of Bakersfield for Buck. He's had a heart transplant, but he's always, and will always have a big heart for these streets of Bakersfield and all the people that walk them. I've penned a brand new Birthday song for Homer, and you can hear it at the tiny play station above, on the left-hand of the top of this blog post by simply clicking the play bar.
He's...
Welcome to my blog n roll baking class. I'm Dr. BLT. I'll be your chef and your instructor.
Today we're going to bake a Jerry's Trout Pizza. Of course, we're talking metaphors here. We're talking about "bakin" a new sound from the fusion of two Bakersfield styles---that of Jerry's-Pizza-flavored punk and Trout's-flavored Kern County country rock in the Bakersfield Sound tradition.
Recipe for Jerry's Trout Pizza:
Here's what you'll...
http://www.billboard.com/bb...
Time's up.
Here's the second question:
What's wrong with this picture?
My Remedy for Writer's Block
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008
the sun has come
and it has gone
I haven't written
one damn song
this writer's block is killin' me
but I know it won't be long
whenever I get writer's block
I open wide and start to talk
and even when the words won't come
I write about the space
when writer's block
takes all my rock
when empty space
is all I've got
I...
Welcome to my new one-piece-at-a-time blog novel, Dr. Samuel von Starbuckaroo and the Bakersfield Sound Underground. I ripped the idea of the one-piece-at-a-time nature of the novel, off of an old Johnny Cash tune (one of the first rap songs) about a poor, recreant young automobile aficionado, working at an automobile plant as a means of putting an entire Cadillac together for himself by stealing one piece at a time.
This novel is based upon magic realism:...
You never know when a song is going to come, and you never know where it's going to come from. The following song was inspired when a blog post of mine involving a song called Merle's Girl, led a young lady over at Bakotopia.com to reply with a touching story about growing up with her now deceased, Merle-fan father.
You can follow the story behind the song that tells the story here (as well as the lyrics that came to me in less than one minute as a result of the inspiring...
I wrote this song after putting George Jones in my CD player and never changing the CD, all the way across town to work and back everyday for a week and all the way from LA and back.
I recorded it in my home studio, recently named the Buck-a-Room, in honor of Buck Owens and the Buckaroos. It's a rough cut, so I'm open to constructive criticism along with the praise and worship (only kidding about that part). I'm also open to other artists covering my material.
I'll...
So far, no luck in meeting B-town's next Buck, but I won't give up! I hope to find him/her/them here
I borrowed this announcement from this blogger.
http://www.bakotopia.com/ho...
I hope you don't mind, kookoonauts.
I hope to make this event, and I'm hoping that if you're Bakersfield's Next Buck, I'll discover you there, and I do mean discover. You can be a solo artist (male or female), a duo, or a band. If we miss one another, have your people contact my people:
drblt@drblt.net
It's still not too late to join the Bakersfield's...
Lyric Today, Hear it Tomorrow: If you can Imagine a Jerry's Trout Pizza: inspired by Bakosphere blog
If Jerry's Trout Pizza ever catches on, I want to be one of the delivery boys.
In my humble opinion, the Bakersfield music scene is struggling to find itself, after a post-Bakersfield-Sound-post-Korn iden tity crisis. In my opinion, there exists a collosal generation gap between the Bakersfield Sound artists of yore, following the Buck Owens and Merle Haggard tradition, and the Korn-fed-Korn-bred Kern County young artists of today.
If the...
I was sure I came across this issue in Bakersfield writer Shellie Branco's recent, brilliantly executed interview with Merle, but it may have appeared in an expanded edition of the interview as it appears here:
http://people.bakersfield.c...
Bakersfield has certain advantages, but let's face it,
This Ain't Life as it Should Be
Dr BLT
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008
http://www.drblt.net/music/...
I would think it should be easy to forgive him for...
Are you an acoustic/electric lead guitar player of the burgeoning nu krock (new Kern County country rock) musical genre----reaching for the stars while wholly grounded, with your boots firmly rooted in the Bakersfield Sound? Can you play leads like the back of your hand on the spot?
Then you may be a candidate for accompanying me as I perform on April 17th (indoors) at Relay for Life event Starbucks on April 17 from 6 pm to 8 pm.
Have your people contact my...
This item falls under the category of LYRIC TODAY/HEAR IT TOMORROW, but if you catch me on the patio of Zingo's Cafe for the lunchtime HooteNOONee delayed until 12:30ish today, on Buck Owens Blvd., there's a chance you can actually hear it today.
Politics will Drag us Down
(But the Bakersfield Sound will unite this Town)
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008
I was surfin' here at B.com
and it seemed bereft of country songs
just arguments...
Step right up, come on in
If you'd like to take the grand tour
Of a lonely house that once was home sweet home
I have nothing here to sell you
Just some things that I will tell you
Some things I know will chill you to the bone
There's no way of making grief feel good, but the best way to handle the loss of a loved one, through divorce, death, or departure of any kind is by facing the loss head on.
That's what George Jones does in Grand Tour, written by G. Richey, C. Taylor &...
Has anybody seen this old girl around? If you have, give her my regards.
Stories and Songs from The Streets of Bakersfield is a series based on the huge hit Homer wrote for Buck Owens---The Streets of Bakersfield. The stories, and the songs are born from conversations I have with real people, on my journey through The Streets of Bakersfield as a Bakersfield Sound-rooted Bakersfield Street musician. These stories and songs are inspired by real residents...
We'll meet you at Zingo's Cafe patio right next to The Boss lounge noonish today for a HooteNOONee. We're going to bring one of the statues standing at the Crystal Palace come to life today, that bronze giant being George Jones.
Today, Jim Jones and myself, God willing, will be playing songs from his gospel music collection---songs like Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Why Me, Lord; What a Friend We Have in Jesus, and whatever we can squeeze into one short set. We'll also...
Welcome to the first in a new series: Stories and Songs from the Streets of Bakersfield.
It's a series inspired by The Streets of Bakersfield, the song written by Homer Joy and recorded and taken to the top of the charts by Buck Owens and Dwight Yoakam. The series involves mostly real people (a few imagined ones) that I have had conversations with as I've lived out Homer Joy's song as a Bakersfield street musician.
If you're cued up on the play station above the photo,...
Let's continue to start a conversation about a conversation about race. Today we're trying to figure out what Obama meant when he mentioned the "typical white guy."
In my world of blog n roll, I supply the topic and the tune. Today's tune is my new hick hop "hit," Average White Guy (a prospective hit, to be precise). It's from my forthcoming CD, From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard Drive, scheduled for a July 4th release.
See lyrics...
BAKERSFIELD SOUND Advice
JUST GET OVER IT! COWBOY UP! GET ON WITH IT! There may be teens, and perhaps adults that need to hear these words. But at the risk of being cast into the stereotype of the shrink with a predilection for excusing bad behavior, I would suggest that sometimes bad behavior in teens my require a closer look, with consideration for psychological factors--Factors such as grief, which may cause adolescents with limited coping skills, and limited...
Welcome to my blog n roll studios. I'm Dr. BLT. I'm your blog n roll host. In the world of blog n roll, I provide the topic and the tunes, and you provide the talk. The tune you're listening to (if you happened to have hit the press bar at the play station connected to the top left hand corner of this post), is a brand new song that Homer Joy inspired in his recent performance at Trout's. It's called I Worship the Streets that You Walk On. Of course it...
On Saturday morning, April 5, 2008 at approximately 8:30 am, I'll be the Streets of Bakersfield street musician sitting in front of Starbucks on Rosedale Highway, just east of Calloway, singing THE SONGS BEHIND THE STATUES: The 10 Legends of Bronze statues standing at the Crystal Palace. I'm starting with Johnny Cash. I'll throw in a few of the songs I wrote about his life and his music, from my Blackout CD. The song featured here today, if you go to the top left-hand corner...
I would try to get a copy of this song to Merle Haggard, but I don't want to intrude into his personal life. I'm not his doctor. I'm not so filled with a narcissistic sense of self-importance that I have any reason to believe the song would ever reach him even if I tried to send it to him.
But the song was not written to him, but to all children, and to all adult children, prone to prematurely accept the advice of those who say "GET OVER IT!" Accepting...
Everywhere I go, I find LOST OCEAN. I call them "Bakersfield's Beatles." That's a bold declaration, but If you've heard them, you'll know why the comparison fits, at least to a point.
On Saturday, March 29, I found them at Borders on Stockdale Highway. My nearly-3-year-old daughter is a huge fan. She likes them almost as much as Johnny Cash, and she was there on what little space she could claim as a dance floor, executing her latest toddler dance...
When I discovered that the old Buck Owens Studios (aka Fat Tracks, aka Pig) were closing the doors, and learned more about the rich history of the place, I began mourning what I had missed out on all of the years I've been recording.
I had spoken with Rick Davis about the prospect of recording there at one point, and even took a tour of it back in the early 90s, but I was always a day late and a dollar short to book a session there.
I wrote a few songs as a way of expressing...
That's the first question.
The second one is this: Which one on the picture runs Trout's and is poised to be a major player in the changing of the guard from the Bakersfield Sound pioneers and those torch-bearing Bakersfield artists most heavily influenced by their music?
Here's the third question: The other guy is just a man with a dream and a 6-string weapon of mass construction. He wishes he would have written The Streets of Bakersfield and practically...
This will be done with Ferlin Husky songs I've never heard before, so it should be an interesting experiment. All of my experiments are done for the sake of finding a brand new Bako sound. Many of my experiments in the past have flopped, so attend this FEARLESS FERLIN FEVER FRIDAY HooteNOONee at your own risk.
Where? 3201 Buck Owens Blvd
Bakersfield, CA 93308
(661) 321-0627
When?: This coming Friday, April 11, 2008 (God willing). All hooteNOONees...
Well, there's several more weeks left to get your submissions in for BAKERSFIELD'S NEXT BUCK. This is Jason Corbin. He's the frontman for Bartenders Bible, playing guitar and singing lead. Jason and his band have been performing in Bakersfield where they have roots that run very deep. Jason is hoping to be BAKERSFIELD'S NEXT BUCK.
He stopped by to jam with me on the patio at Zingo's on Buck Owens Boulevard. I met him and his band a couple of weeks...
Good morning, Bakersfield! I'll be heading out to the site of the Buck Owens recording studios to (God willing) record a handful of tunes paying tribute to the history of this place, in the process of closing its doors. Songs to be recorded include There's a Ghost in This Building, Walls of Sound are Falling, Phat Chance, and Last Man Standing. If time permits, I've also written End of the World, paying tribute to World Records, another historic Kern County musical...
That would be my prediction. It may be old, but I believe it's the new Blackboard. It even houses a new Blackboard stage.
Trout's is fertile ground for a Bakersfield Sound revival and a spawning of a whole new generation to move the Bakersfield Sound movement forward.
Trout's has the roots, it's got the pioneers, and Rockwell, Trout's main man, has the forward-looking attitude and open-mindedness to allow for such a possibility to take root.
What's your take on my...
The new Bakersfield Sound underground movement is at hand, and what is a movement without a mascot?
I hereby nominate this dog, last spotted at Trout's as the mascot and symbol of the new sound to emerge from The Streets of Bakersfield, born of the old Bakersfield Sound movement, and laced with a post-punk attitude and an underdog status.
This dog is owned by a homeless man who hangs out in front of Trout's. The dog's name is Ebony. His master goes by Snowbird....
I'll be there at about 8:30 am to perform this tribute to a record store that's closing its doors---one that we all love, namely, World Records, owned by a store owner and operator we all love: Pat.
I've recorded a low-budget, amateurish version of the song that you're hearing hear. It's on my list of songs to record tomorrow at Fat Tracks, the sight of the old Buck Owens recording studio.
So I'll see you at Starbucks on Coffee Road and Stockdale Highway where I'll...
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