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Buck's Red, White and Blue Guitar
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008 Nu Bako Sound Recordings/KrockeRecords
nothin' helps me celebrate
July the 4th as much
as Buck's red, white and blue guitar
nothin' helps me play my songs
with just that special touch
like Buck's red, white and blue guitar
I pledge allegiance to that guitar
and for the country
it stands for
I pledge allegiance...
Some of the Bee Gees richest material sprang from their early souls, prior to the disco era they got bloody rich in, and, also, typecast in. One example is I Started a Joke. My cover of the song can be found here:
New Dr BLTunes at Art of the Mix
along with a couple of cuts from my forthcoming CD, From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard Drive, including Keepin' Up with the Jones, my tribute to one of Buck's favorite country stars, Mr. George Jones.
For more information...
Before Buck and before Merle, there was Mr. Lloyd Reading. He's the most accessible living legend from the earliest of the Bakersfield Sound generation. At 89 years of age, he's the man the younger generations of Bakersfield Sound-rooted artists are turning to for mentoring and for inspiration. I hope to interview him for an article I'm calling Reading between the Lines.
But, in the meantime, my good friend, and one of Bakersfield Sound's fastest-rising underground...
Someday, I hope to be good enough to write commercial radio jingles for Trout's, maybe even to perform there, but in the meantime, I'm just playing around and dreaming.
What you're hearing if you've activated the attached play station is just a sample of what you'll get today, when you go underground.
To hear my bakobilly hick hop jingle pretending to be the official jingle advertising today's event's at Trout's, to read the lyrics, and to delightfully discover a link that will give...
Welcome to today's edition of Bakersfield Sound Trivia Quest. I'm Dr. BLT. I'll be your host. Today, we're projecting into the future of the Bakersfield Sound with the introduction of the future group, Grungedawg Squaredance, and their new song, If Korn went Kountry.
Today's Bakersfield Sound trivia quest challenge is to identify each member of this group, Grungedawg Squaredance. The group asked me to write this song for them, and since experimental fusion is...
As the local underground music scene goes, t's one of the hottest topics to hit the Streets of Bakersfield in recent days. I'm talking about the Bakersfield Sound generation gap.
Up until now, I've been doing my best to put a spotlight on the problem, and the nature of the problem. With the introduction of a brand new rockin' round table discussion today, I've begun to introduce solutions. The one being brought to the table for discussion today is mentoring, and its...
I recently took the words to that old Little River Band song to heart and decided it was "time for a cool change." So I gathered my wife, my nearly 3-year-old daughter, a stack of my new CDs (The Buck Owens Studios Farewell Session), and headed North to Canada.
After landing in Calgary, we headed out the beautiful rocky mountain resort area known as Banff, Alberta. We took some breath-taking sights, ate some great food, heard some great music, and met some great...
Meet me underground tomorrow for a brief article on the subject and a rockin' round table discussion in the comments section. My name is Dr. BLT. I'll be your host. I teach Developmental Psychology at Chapman University on the beautiful campus of College of the Canyons in Valencia, California.
I will be applying developmental psychology to the future direction I envision for the Bakersfield Sound movement. It's all about bringing it forward to a new...
There are right answers, there are wrong answers, and then, there's the best answer. If you feel you have the best answer, post it under the comments section at:
Bakersfield Sound Underground
Tomorrow, June 25, 2008. You'll win a prize, and you'll win the comforting knowledge that you have significantly contributed to all of our individual and collective funds of knowledge on the relationship between the past, the present and the future of the Bakersfield Sound.
If You Wanna be the Next Buck Owens: You've got to grab the bull by the horns: Contest deadline 6/30
------even if it's an ox. like the one pictured here, that my wife took at a little shop in Banff, Alberta. The deadline for mix tapes or CD-R covers of the song, If You Wanna Be the Next Buck Owens, is June 30, 2008 at 12 midnight.
What will the winner of Bakersfield's Next Buck Talent competition win? You'll have to go underground to find the answer to that. And, I'm sure you've heard that if you ain't goin' underground, you ain't goin' anywhere, so check that out...
This photo I took is not posted here to necessarily represent my preference. I enjoy both and I need you to help me if I'm ever caught in this jam (pun wholly intended):
It's a Saturday night. There's a kick-ass country band playing at Trout's and there's one playing over at the Crystal Palace. The gigs start and end at the same time. You're a die-hard Bakersfield Sound fan. Where do you go?
It's time to play blog n roll. When I say, blog n roll,...
Welcome to Does it Suck, or does it Buck? I'm Dr. BLT, your host, and your vulnerable Krocker (Kern County Country Rocker) putting my redneck on the line by asking for your critique of my songs. If the song sucks, feel free to tell me (hopefully in terms that are both honest and helpful in terms of offering constructive criticism). If it Bucks, that it rocks, and that Buck Owens himself would approve of it.
I've got too many songs scheduled to be included on my...
Here's another Trout's Tall Tale told in Song, from a forthcoming collection of such. This one's about not only not kicking a woman when she's down, but actually picking her up by being a true cowboy gentleman. I hope you enjoy it. It's called Cowboy Up 'cause Cowgirl's Down.
This is another rough cut recorded in the BuckarooM at my house.
Just activate the play button on the attached play station to hear the song. Let me know what you think. ...
They call it laryngitis. That's what I was stricken with after spending a night in Calgary, Alberta at a hotel where too much cold air from the air conditioner blew on me all night long.
So I left my voice in Calgary, Alberta, but brought my heart, and my pen with me. This morning, I penned this song about the two towns I consider home. Then I recorded it, with scratchy, scratch vocals. Hence, it is not yet available to be heard.
BTW, my mom, Dorothy Julene Thiessen,...
Welcome to Bakersfield Sound Trivia Quest (BSTQ). I'm Dr. BLT. I'll be the host of today's challenge question.
You'll choose between two, both located within blocks of one another, in downtown Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The first of these two is pictured here. You'll need to go to
http://www.bakersfieldsound...
to see the second picture, your second of two choices.
And it's just as well. The reason? If you're not going...
It's good to be back on The Streets of Bakersfield Homer, Buck and Dwight made famous, but I sure had a great time travelling down the highways of mid-western Canada talking to Canadians and tourists from all around the world about the Bakersfield Sound.
This picture was taken on the way out of Swift Current, Saskatchewan on the way to Medicine Hat.
You can find out more about my recent travels by going underground.
Streets of Bakersfield to Highways of Western Canada
...
Check out the new song featured on the "U.S.eh" edition of the CD here, then head underground for more details, sketchy though they may be.
Bakersfield Sound Underground
Remember, if you're not going underground, you're not going anywhere.
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...
It's not in the lyrics below, and you'll have to listen closely to catch it.
Welcome to Bakersfield Sound Trivia Quest meets Trout's Tall Tales Told in song, my new Bakersfield Sound series. I wrote and recorded the first song this morning from the BuckarooM in my house. It's called His Tipsy Toes.
Today, your challenge is to correctly identify the words that the short dude in this song is saying behind my back that represent his ultimate nemesis.
To activate the song...
Trout's CMA's rocked, but what about the elephant in the room?: THE BAKERSFIELD SOUND GENERATION GAP
I thought maybe some of the last bands and artists to have recorded at the old Buck Owens Studios (aka Fat Tracks/Pig Studios) would have showed up to honor the living legends that have contributed, in collosal ways, to the Bakersfield Sound.
They were conspicuously absent. I'm sure they were all very busy. I've been busy myself, and haven't always attended functions that have honored the pioneers, the past they represent, and rich heritage. they have brought, and continue...
After posting your answer in the comments section below, go undergound to find Part II and answer it in the comments section at:
http://www.bakersfieldsound...
The CD released just last night, "The Buck Owens Studios Farewell Session," contains both the mixes that were done at Pig Studios (formerly, informally known as Buck Owens Studios and then Fat Tracks) at the original rough mixes from my own home studio, the BuckarooM.
The CD has just become interactive, by allowing you, the listener, to judge between the different mixes in terms of your preferences. You can do that by going underground at Bakersfield Sound Underground:...
The CD release of The Buck Owens Studios Farewell Session went on without a hitch. The attendees (I wouldn't exactly call them a crowd) seemed very enthusiastic, often moving to the music (one gentleman was busted breaking out into a very unique dance), and they didn't seem to experience channel 17's news coverage as an interruption, but, rather, as something else to focus their attention on.
I want to thank all who attended for lending their support.
I want to thank...
What up, cowboy? What up, cowgirl? Welcome to my new series---one that gives you an up close and personal look at the burgeoning underground "hick" hop scene, both here in Bakersfield, and abroad. I'm your host, Dr. BLT.
I met him at his day job at Office Depot on Rosedale Highway. That's why he's not all pimped out in terms of his attire and overall look.
As for the question I've presented in the subject line above, I'm going to have to keep you...
If you've been gone underground these days, you'll realize that Homer Joy is still making the independent country music charts, and you'll know that both the Bakobilly TM and the KROCK TM (Kern County country rock) scene has been on the rise, from the underground up.
I've got my tickets---Two Tickets to Paradise, as Eddie Money said in his classic hit song. I had the honor of buying them directly from "the man," none other than Rockwell himself :)
As I said in a song,...
Everybody's talking about the two big events to be held in Bakersfield this weekend. Whether you've gone country, whether you've gone underground, or whether you've done both and lived to tell about it, you'll want to know about these 2 big events and you'll want to be there.
The first event, is much smaller than the second, but what would you expect from an underground underdawg's underground underdawg and his underground underdawg opening act?
Catch all the details here:...
Bolthouse Farms Jingle Contest
Welcome to the Bolthouse Farms Jingle Contest.
Here are the rules:
1. You must not use hate speech in your jingle.
2. Your jingle can be presented as lyrics only, or lyrics and music together.
3. While you can be political, you are encouraged to focus on the company's product more than it's politics.
4. I, the judge, am not allowed to be overly biased in my judgement of the winning jingle.
5. I'm allowed to...
The Farewell Session CD Release Party
When?: Saturday, June 7 at 7 pm.
Where? Russo's Books at the Marketplace on Ming Avenue in Bakersfield, California
What? A CD release party to welcome aboard the release of the EP, The Farewell Session, recorded at the home of the old Buck Owens recording studio, aka Fat Tracks, aka Pig.
Being the underground underdawg's underground underdawg, I don't know how I pulled it off, I didn't think I had that much star power. But...
Welcome to Bakersfield Sound Trivia Quest. I'm Dr. BLT and I'll be your host. Yesterday, a blog known as Turtle Box opening dissed our town, and you don't diss the town of Bakersfield and not expect to here from any of us.
They called us all a bunch of "bigots" and "red-necks." Can you believe it?
As I said in a previous post, "Thems fightin' words."
Though the jury is still out on whether or not Merle has lost his fightin'...
Thank you, Bakosphere, for letting us in on the Bakersfield-dissing that's going on in the blogosphere.
An article by Timothy Kincaid, that appears in that blog completly bashes Bakersfield and disses it's residents. Kincaid doesn't waste any time getting to the cheap shots either. Here are some opening lines of that article:
Bakersfield, CA, is an armpit.
With an economy based in argriculture, manufacturing, and oil refining, it’s no exageration to say that...
I was trying my best to be anally retentive, something I've always had to practice hard at. So, in trying to correct a beloved blogger here, I over-stated a rule of grammar, making it more general than it should be.
You don't use an in front of every word beginning in h. Is there a rule that allows a person to judge correctly, when to use an and when to use a as it applies to h words?
While use of a in front of historic is common, it is not, technically correct, but in...
Homeboy on the Range
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008
she ordered a
homeboy on the range
she ordered one with lots of bling
she doesn't like small change
you know I ain't no millionaire
but I that could always change
I wanna be her homeboy
on the range
I think I'll keep you
barefoot by the stove
and pregnant too
'cause homeboy
like to make sweet love to you
we'll make some little cowboys
and cowgirls we can raise
I wanna be your
homeboy on the range...
If you're a local act, and you either consider yourself hick hop, or have written and/or recorded some material that captures the flavor of this burgeoning fusion, have your posse get in touch with mine and we'll set up an interview or I'll write something up on you, as a solo artist, a band, a DJ, or a duo.
The local hick hop scene is small. One could even say it's lilliputian, so while the underground hick hop scene is growing from it's amorphous state, I'll connect you with...
Oh, bomb us! That's how I would summarize Obama's foreign policy, if asked to do it in three words.
So, that brings me to today's challenge to you. Summarize, in three words or less, your least favorite candidate's policy on any of a myriad of issues.
Ready? Set? Blog n roll!
When nobody shows up to my weekday hooteNOONees at Zingo's Cafe patio on Buck Owens Blvd., I take the no-show lemon and make lemonade out of it. My lemonade is new music, a little sour, and a little sweet, as most Krock (my style of post-Korn Kern County country rock) music is known to be.
I gave birth to another Zingo's single today as I sat out on the patio of Zingo's penning the latest Dr. BLTune. Whether it will be a winner, or a loser, is another story. ...
Lately I've been feeling a little insecure about whether or not I'm a "real" cowboy, or an imposter. Truth be told, I broke in my first horse when I was just 9 years of age. Of course it was just a pony, and a lilliputian one at that, but size shouldn't matter.
Then, at the age of 10, I was trampled by a horse. A horse, of course, if you consider a 3-week-old colt a horse. But let's just say, for the sake argument that neither of these events...
Welcome to Bakersfield Sound trivia quest. I'm Dr. BLT. I'll be your host. Just identify the Beatle behind me in this photo, then visit...
http://www.bakersfieldsound...
To hear the Bo Diddley tribute song and find the answer to this question in the lyrics:
How does the song characterize the two remaining, living and breathing Beatles?
The BuckarooM is a little home studio of mine that I named after Buck Owens. It's where humble rough cuts are born, a few of which end up sounding like big-time studio recordings, not because of my engineering skills, but simply by accident.
Accidents are a recording purist's worst nightmare, but accidents are a creatively minded music experimenter's best friend. I met James through a friend of my wife's. He's cool, and he's talented. So he's always welcome any time...
If that was you honking as I stayed a little longer than I should have on the green light, my apologies. I'll make it up to you tomorrow, 6/4/08 when I release my brand new tribute to Bo Diddly, here, at my home website, at Art of the Mix, and at Bakersfield Sound Underground.
Buck, the Beatles and Bo will be a bonus track on the CD I will release at Russo's on Saturday night, The Farewell Session. Rumor has it, it ends with a Bo Diddly-esque guitar riff by one of...
Welcome to Bakersfield Sound Trivia Quest, one of several blog n roll games featured at Dr. BLT's Blog n Roll Studio. I'm Dr. BLT. I'll be your humble host.
I've introduced your quest in the subject line. Your prize will be a free mp3 download of the medley once it's released.
It's as simple as that. There may be 2 songs, 1 Buck song, and 1 Beatles song, and there may be more, in the 2nd Dr. BLT Buck 'n' Beatles Medley, in the works, and...
It's not rude to turn your back to the audience when you're rehearsing, so go easy on Hank Ray, and give him a warm welcome when he opens for my CD release party at 7 pm on Saturday, June 7 at Russo's Books at the Marketplace.
I'll be releasing The Farewell Session, an EP featuring a collection of songs written as tributes to the history of the old Buck Owens recording studios which evolved into Fat Tracks, and, eventually into Pig Studio. The solo project was the last to be completed...
Imagine the Beatles walking down the Streets of Bakersfield instead of Abbey Road. "It isn't hard to do." Imagination is what Bakersfield Sound Underground is all about, and today you will find a very special edition of Bakersfield Sound Underground Trivia Quest, in which you will get to interact with the first Beatles/Buck medley ever recorded and released.
You will find the trivia question and the debut of Dr. BLT's Beatles 'n Buck Love Medley right here:...
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