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Happy Halloween! I don't want to scare anybody away by taking about Christmas prematurely, but an exciting project is moving forward on 2 fronts. Check it out here:
Bakersfield Sound Underground
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Have you heard of the hottest Bakersfield-sound-based show since Cousin Herb's Trading Show? Did you know that the epicenter of a new Bakersfield Sound revival is not Bakersfield? Did you know that the further you get out of Bakersfield, the more the Bakersfield sound is both...
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Well, they weren't exactly rumors, more like rumors of rumors. Well, no, the rumor part is a slight exaggeration. Okay, I'll be honest, it's a cheap, dispicable publicity stun, but it's not shameless self-promotion because I feel great shame.
Anyway, you're not interested in my...
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One never knows, but I've witnessed a live street performance and I can tell you, the boy's got talent. Check out my interview with the young man I took the liberty of nicknaming "Yukalaylee Zach."
Doesn't sound "mainstream" does it? That's because it's...
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If those burning witches depicted below (or the furry feline that's "had one too many" below that) aren't enough to put a scare in you, this song will surely get you shakin' in your boots. I'm talking about my brand new honky-tonk Halloween single, due for release soon, and...
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You'll have to take a trip to the underground to find out? Why can't you just stay where you are? Hey, just trust me, I wouldn't take you on a trip unless I knew it was worth the journey.
Bakersfield Sound Underground (BSU)
http://www.bakersfieldsound...
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The Bakersfield Sound saved me from sinking in the quick sand of political bickering. When I grew up in the prairies of Saskatchewan and got my first guitar, songwriting became quite a natural outlet for me. But I wanted to play rock n roll, and all that came...
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Will Ray, along with "Cousin" Herb Henson, was responsible for helping to launch the careers of some of the biggest stars of the original Bakersfield Sound era. He was also a skilled and dedicated musician in his own right, playing with Merle Haggard, Bill Woods and many...
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Former Bakersfield Californian music critic Richard Chon landed on his feet after losing his reporting job back in the mid-1990s. These days he's the frontman of the Saddle Cats, an East Bay band that specializes in Western Swing music.
ABC7 in the Bay area aired a nice piece that...
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The song was released quietly here last night
http://www.drblt.net
(hit "music' button to find song and CD)
...while you were either listening to Bakersfield and Beyond on kwmr or getting ready for an early bedtime. It's the title track to my forthcoming CD, From...
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When I first saw this limousine on my way to Rockwell's Trout's Nightclub and The Blackboard Stages, I had no idea who owned it, but it inspired me to write a song that would later incorporate Rockwell himself, Brian Benson (one of Bakersfield's greatest musicians), and Mark Yeary, the local...
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To watch him at work is to watch the work of a genius. He was with Merle Haggard and the Strangers, as Merle's keyboard player, co-writer/co-producer and all around right-hand man for Merle Haggard. So it came as a very pleasant surprise that as I approached him at his doorstep,...
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Did you miss Robert Price's article on Bakersfield and Beyond, the radio show that presages a Bakersfield Sound revival, the epicenter being Marin County? Are you wondering if there are any songs that mention Labor Day? Did you want to become a part of a recording project that will...
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They've come a long way in a short time, and soon they will be "arriving" as a featured act on the best media phenomenon to happen to Bakersfield Sound since Cousin Herb Henson's Trading Show. I'm talking about Bakersfield and Beyond.
Check out what they have in store for you for...
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Dare I draw such a comparison? Well, perhaps they haven't spawned quite the string of superstars and pioneers as The Cousin Herb Henson Trading Post, but the show is still young, just a few months of age to be exact.
They've already introduced local artists like Meestro, The...
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There's a rhyme and a reason behind the Bakersfield Sound. Just read Jeff Nickell and Sarah Woodman's newly released book (mine's autographed), Hard Drivin' Country. But is there a science? To find out, you'll need to go underground.
BSU (Bakersfield Sound...
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How many can you name? If you can name them all, win your choice of the country remake of Billie Jean, featuring Penny Marie and Kim McAbee, or the latest song that me and Mark Yeary are working on, the title track from the forthcoming CD, From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard...
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It's been a long time since country music celebrated a non-dominant country music culture quite this boldly. That hasn't since Buck Owens and Dwight Yoakam released their arrangement of a Homer Joy song called Streets of Bakersfield. George Strait boldly embraces...
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Fill 'er up, it's a lot less expensive than filling up with gas, or buying a real cement pond. Once you get past the embarrassment of being called a redneck by a few highfalutin city folk, sitting in your very own pick-up/pool is a great way to beat the heat.
While you're at it, you...
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You won't see it in the papers. All of the living members of the Bakersfield sound underground movement are mum to the press when it comes to secret underground recording sessions that are going on right now in Bakersfield, under the radar, that are bringing the Bakersfield sound back to...
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There are probably more magic moments in Bakersfield private recording studios taking place every day than most people realize. There's one such example here, as we introduce the making of the song, Oildale Limousine with a rare Brian Benson interview and a few pictures of the recording...
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If you think the Bakersfield Sound is dead and gone, think again. Artists like Kama Ruby, who recently did a brilliant remake of The Door's Light My Fire is featured in her first BSU interview, are standing on the shoulders of those who have gone before, and she's paving her own...
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It isn't as easy as it seems having too many original songs on your hands. You've got to record as many as you can, and you've farm as many of them out as you can, or they end up sitting on a shelf collecting dust.
I wrote "Ain't I Buck Enough" this morning, and now...
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Do you want to break down a few stereotypes of white males? Well, this is as good a place to do it as any. And if you want to follow the making of a future hit song of mine, from beginning 'till end, a song I call White Lies about White Guys, you can do that too, but for that, you'll...
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Welcome to another round of Bakersfield Sound Trivia Quest. Here is today's Bakersfield Sound Trivia Quest question (don't allow the photo to throw you off, it could be a clue, or it could be a diversion):
After hearing The Buck Stops Here, a song Jim Shaw played him off a cassette...
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Can you tell me the name of this band? Can you tell me where these members of our Bakersfield sound extended family come from? How great a fund of knowledge do you have as it concerns members of our extended family who have their roots firmly planted in the very sound we...
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This video shows some of the Bakersfield sound in my song of the same name. Note the addition of Clarence White whom has been left out of the story until now. He was in the 1960s band "Nashville West" he invented the B bender and the style used by most pickers today both in country and...
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You guessed it. Punk meets Kern County Country Rock (K.c.c.r.o.c.k). And if you're wondering what this series is all about, I cut this from BSU for your convenience:
Welcome to a brand new Bakersfield Sound Underground blog storybook adventure, where you, the blog visitor, get...
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No pun intended in the first word of the title by the way, BSU doesn't discriminate for any reason at all. All puns aside, Kern County country star, Monty Byrom, may not have had it as his intended purpose, but he did help me to realize, once and for all, that Billie Jean would work as a...
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Will Penny Marie join the other two Bakersfield SounDivas (Kim and Theresa) on the newly countrified cover of Billie Jean, the Bakersfield Sound's response to the death of Michael Jackson? You'll have to wait to find out.
I feel honored and humbled as I stood on sacred...
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What would prompt a "Palace Princess" to leave the balance, and head underground to record a country version of the King of Pop's Billie Jean? Well, the "princess," Kim McAbee herself, may be asking herself the same question.
When I asked her to sing harmony on my...
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(Borrowed from http://www.bakersfieldsound... )
For a long time I felt like a lone traveler, hacking away at the bushes as I tried to clear a path from the Bakersfield sound of yore to new generations of Bakersfield sound, established upon that foundation, but in search of new ways...
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What you'll win, you'll appreciate. I'm trying to make my new CD, From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard Drive worth every penny, and if you win this, you won't have to pay one penny. All you need to do is to show up for the CD release party.
These 2 Bakersfield sound...
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Name this Bakersfield Sound celebrity, and win an autographed copy of my forthcoming CD, From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard Drive, due for release late summer of 2009.
http://www.drblt.net
All you have to do to collect your prize is to watch for, and then show up at the CD release...
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Name this Bakersfield Sound celebrity, and win an autographed copy of my forthcoming CD, From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard Drive, due for release late summer of 2009.
http://www.drblt.net
All you have to do to collect your prize is to watch for, and then show up at the CD release...
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Name this Bakersfield Sound celebrity, and win an autographed copy of my forthcoming CD, From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard Drive, due for release late summer of 2009.
http://www.drblt.net
All you have to do to collect your prize is to watch for, and then show up at the CD release...
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Name this Bakersfield Sound celebrity, and win an autographed copy of my forthcoming CD, From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard Drive, due for release late summer of 2009.
http://www.drblt.net
All you have to do to collect your prize is to watch for, and then show up at the CD release...
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Name this Bakersfield Sound celebrity, and win an autographed copy of my forthcoming CD, From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard Drive, due for release late summer of 2009.
http://www.drblt.net
All you have to do to collect your prize is to watch for, and then show up at the CD release...
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Name this Bakersfield Sound celebrity, and win an autographed copy of my forthcoming CD, From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard Drive, due for release late summer of 2009.
http://www.drblt.net
All you have to do to collect your prize is to watch for, and then show up at the CD release...
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Name this Bakersfield Sound celebrity, and win an autographed copy of my forthcoming CD, From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard Drive, due for release late summer of 2009.
http://www.drblt.net
All you have to do to collect your prize is to watch for, and then show up at the CD release...
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It was an anniversary to remember, the 1st anniversary of Darkstar Records on Truxton Avenue in Bakersfield, California. It was quite the historic event. If you missed it, you can read what you missed, and weep, or if you were there, you can relive every breath-taking...
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I've got a few Johnny Cash tribute songs you can hear over there, that anybody can listen to who logs in, and if you've been friendly to me, I'll be your friend over there.
Once you've joined, and it's free to join, you can find me under Dr BLT aka Fan in Black....
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But the public is fickle. The underdog may be alive today, but I could easily be way down in the polls tomorrow. But you, Bakersfield, should be given the chance to vote for one of your own over a slick, if extraordinarily talented commercialized product of Nashville. You can...
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Rebellious, underground Kern County country rockers (I call them Kccrockers) haven't had a voice like this in which to showcase their talent since Cousin Herb's Trading Post television broadcast in the original Bakersfield sound era.
Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, Fatt Katt and the...
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Nashville or Bakersfield? Brad Paisley or Dr BLT? Today you'll get to excercise your right to free speech, and actually vote.
Things in Nashville today look a lot like they did just before the emergence of the Bakersfield sound back in the late 50s and early 60s. It's...
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Watch the bottle in this photo grow. When it's three times this size, it'll be time for me to release the kccrock (Kern County Country Rock) single, "The Bottle's Gettin' Bigger," about one man's struggle with alcoholism.
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Here are a few Bakersfield sound classics to get the cog in your cognitions rolling:
"I've Got A Tiger By The Tail," Buck Owens
"Mama Tried," Merle Haggard
"Big, Big Love," Wynn Stewart
"She's Gone, Gone, Gone," Lefty Frizzell...
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Some things taste better than they look, like the Trout Pizza I saw on the internet today--a picture much too gross to be posted here. Maybe you think country music sounds like this pizza looks, or maybe you feel the same way about punk, and post-punk. Either way, I think you're gonna...
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Have you had your corporate cup of coffee today? Mine was lukewarm, and the cheese danish I ordered had dried up cream cheese and both ends, but no cream cheeze inside. Where was I, you ask? Starbucks, where else? Almost all Starbucks look the same, they all have...
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What's a Buckanuck, you say? Well, it's up to you to answer. If you answer it correctly, you'll be the first to win the song I wrote as a prelude to tonight's radio show, Bakersfield and Beyond, on KWMR
http://www.kwmr.org
There are two new blogs posted at Bakersfield Sound...
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