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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....
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Welcome to the "Too Bad it's not the Cousin Herb Show" Show. Welcome to Dr BLTv. I'm Dr BLT. I'll be your host and blog VJ. Today we're going to witness the chemistry between Oildale's native son, and Bakersfield's pride and joy, Merle Haggard, and George Jones....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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. ...
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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...
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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...
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I was just wondering, being relatively new here in B'field and all, if there is anyone or any organization that takes the time to acknowledge MOTHER'S who might not have family to be with them or send them anything for Mother's day? Among the most obvious reasons I ask is that last year,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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With all the actual events in today's world today that are WAY WAY WAY more important than this, I'm going to post this anyway. Maybe it's due to all the surrounding events that this is a little bit of an issue for me.
I logged on today to see "Elton John..Friday...April 18...Enter to...
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I've been walking Homer Joy's Streets of Bakersfield, all the way From Buck Owens Blvd to Merle Haggard Drive. I've been meeting people and writing songs that tell their stories. Some are true, some are altered to protect the innocent, and some are flat-out fiction, like the song I'll...
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C'mon, you can do it! Welcome to my blog n roll studio. I'm your host, Dr BLT. In the game of blog n roll, I supply the topic and the tunes, and you supply the talk.
I took this pic at the Merle Haggard street-signing ceremony a few weeks back, on The Day Merle Haggard...
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I have a confession to make about the following confession. It's built on a vast exaggeration. But, then again, it's Trout's and isn't it true that to tell a good fish story, at least at little exaggeration is required to capture the interest of the listener? Thanks for the...
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This blog comes with a language warning, but the Mile High Ramblings blogger is angry about Kern officials giving the thumbs-up to a corn-powered ethanol plant. The blogger is particularly upset with Wendy Wayne's enthusiastic support.
The next blog post caught our attention because it stated:...
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I said it yesterday, but it's just as true today:
It's not easy being an underdog. As an underdog---a true underdog, you have to be content paying your dues until the day you die.
but if you're going under, and you're misunderstood, understand this:...
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These songs are from the CD: Confessions of a Buckaholic. I've written some new Buck Owens tributes from a forthcoming CD: From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard Drive.
Today, on the outdoor patio between Zingo's Cafe and The Boss on Buck Owens Boulevard, I'll be playing songs like these...
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Talk on the Streets of Bakersfield suggested it was highly anticipated. Now it's here. Two other publications have notified me of their plans to publish it. I only pitched it to these two and Tollbooth, so more may be wanting to jump on the Bakersfield Sound bandwagon with this...
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Isn't it time to collect on your Hard-earned Play? Be on the porch between Zingo's and The Boss on Buck Owens Blvd. at 12 noonish and you'll get RICH quick, not to mention some back 2 back Buck Owens and Johnny Cash. That's what's in store for today. See you...
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Bakersfield Sound Trivia Quest:
What was the name of the band that played at the Crystal Palace several days after Johnny Cas passed away---the one featured on this music video that also happens to feature me and many others?:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
1. Steppenwolf
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The following lyrics, from a soon-2-be-released cut from the CD, From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard Drive, are based upon a true story about the anticipation what type of Buck-Owens-related anniversary?
a) His birth
b) The day Buck Owens first recorded together with Dr...
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Paul, over at Setting The Woods On Fire, is posing the question: "Who invented country rock?"
He lists such acts as The Byrds, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis and the Beatles.
Finally he lists Buck Owens. Down in the comments, Paul writes "I think a...
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8:45 am at Starbucks, right next to Denny's on Merle Haggard Drive right off 99. It's Monday Morning on Merle Haggard Drive. Wear green and learn this song, so you can sing along:
Lucky Buck
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008
I heard someone call him Lucky...
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The idea for Phat Sounds, a compilation CD featuring various B-town acts, was inspired by the Beach Boys Pet Sounds CD, and by Fat Tracks, which was the cradle that brought two distinctly Bako sounds into the world: the Bakersfield Sound and Nu Metal.
This is what you call strictly...
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Walls of Sound are Fallin'
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008
walls of sound are fallin' on Chester Ave.
Fat Tracks
2 sounds born right here
from old
and from the nu
Walls are fallin'
on the Avenue
Walls of sound are...
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The song is called Phat Chance, and it's about my sense of regret over being too cheap to record at Fat Tracks (though I came close on a couple of occasions). In opting to be a cheapskate, I robbed myself of the opportunity to be where two unique Bakersfield sounds were created, the sound...
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Both songs deal with luck, and both will be released to bars and radio stations on St. Patrick's Day, 2008. You'll hear this one on St.. Patty's Day too. It's a song of recording regrets, and it's called...
Phat Chance
words and music by Dr...
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Are you feeling lucky? Here is your Bakersfield Sound Quest Trivia Question of the Day
The Bakersfield Sound Mural and Future Projects idea session was held at:
1. Trout's in 1922
2. The Blackboard in 2004
3. Zingo's Cafe in 1957
4. The Crystal Palace in...
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Jason Corbin, frontman for Bartender's Bible, took a break from his tour with the band to jam with Jim and myself at our regular weekday 12 o'clock HootaNOONee on the patio in between Zingo's and the accompanying lounge, The Boss.Jason sang a few Merle Haggard tunes and Jim and I sang some of...
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BAKERSFIELD SOUNDoff
A fairly popular local Bakersfield band wants to enter Bakersfield's Next Buck contest under the aka of Bastard Sons of Buck Owens. The band (I've agreed not to expose the band at this time) wants to know if entering the contest under this aka will help or hurt their...
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Welcome to The "I Wish it were the Cousin Herb Show" Show. I'm Dr BLT, and I'll be your host. Today is Friday, Ferlin Friday to be exact. So without further ado, I'd like to introduce our guest who will perform and old Ferlin favorite. This is in fact, a...
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In blog n roll, I supply the topic and the tunes, and you supply the talk. So now that you've heard the unplugged version of a song I plan to turn up a notch or two with a full-band arrangement in Mark Yeary's studio, and now that I've introduced the topic, it's up to you to share your...
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His name is Jim Jones. After hearing his recent song about Bonnie and Buck (recorded with a little help from the great Sonny Langley) and experiencing the passion he has for country music, I wrote a song about him called The Other Jim Jones, posted here:
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As Gomer Pyle used to say, "Surprise. Surprise." (On TV land, folks, please, I'm not that old :)!
Certainly, when I introduced this contest, I wasn't expecting the first contestant to be female. I didn't picture "a young buck" in the form of a...
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Listen to musicians and poets on the street. Look at the blogs of late. Listen to the buzz. Everywhere you go on the streets of Bakersfield today, there is a burgeoning restlessness among members of the underground music community. Local musicians of today are no...
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More specifically, the comment below brewed in my mind overnight and, in the morning, out on the patio of Rubio's, right next to Starbucks on Rosedale Highway just east of Calloway, on March 11, 2008, at around 8:45 am, this new song was born.
I had to go to my day job, so I couldn't...
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BAKERSFIELD SOUNDS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT!
Lyrics to be added later today.
Full song available later this week. Stay tuned at:
http://www.drblt.net
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What do you get when you cross post-Korn rock with Kern County Kountry? You get KROCK. This is just an example of how a new hybrid could evolve out of two distinctive sounds to emerge out of Kern County: The Bakersfield Sound and Nu Metal.
Our blog n roll game today...
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