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That is today's big Bakersfield SoundOFF question. There are a number of names generally tossed around, as candidates that would have foot the bill as "fifth Beatle." The most common one I have seen has been the late Billy Preston.
But what about Buck...
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Welcome to the blog n roll series I call Lyric Today, Hear it Tomorrow, where you can read the lyrics before the songs are recorded. Yes, it's called Lyric Today, Hear it Tomorrow, but that's not always the way it works out.
The songs I come up with are like cars crowding the freeway in my...
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If you haven't heard about the unveiling of the new Buck Stamp, check out the details here:
http://www.bakersfield.com/...
(attached photo courtesy of Buck Owens Productions)
And, please allow me to put the rumors to rest that, along with the Buck stamp, there will be a brand...
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I asked, and they graciously and enthusiastically agreed to host BAKERSFIELD'S NEXT BUCK TALENT CONTEST.
I am humbled and honored by their hospitality. I've always said that, as it pertains to the Bakersfield sound, if lightening strikes twice, Trout's will be the lightening rod that...
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The song you will cover for your audition is posted right here, right now (complete version with and without instruments available for free for contestants upon request).
The details of the contest and the list of talented contestants that have already applied for the title is...
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As long as we're talkin' Buckshot, the seed is good. In fact, it's superb. One of the seeds even comes from "the big tree"---Buck Owens himself.
All of us who want to see the younger generations benefit from the rich musical legacy that was left behind with...
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It was a surrealistic photo session and a jam session of a lifetime. It's a long story, but you can catch the first part of it and catch the lyrics to one of the songs on the "soundtrack" to our Buck Owens ranch trek today at:
Bakersfield Sound Underground
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A new bako sound, future AmeriKERNa classic? You'll decide. I'll abide.
What this Country Means to Me
Dr BLT
hardly a day goes by
when I don't play a song
by old Merle Haggard and his boys
hardly a night goes by
when a
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It looks like, so far, the news on the review front is good for the last solo project to emerge from the closing doors of the old Buck Owens recording studios. For those following such reviews, here's the latest, this one by a music critic I have great respect for---Michael Dalton.
Here is...
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Here's your clue, and it doubles as a free Dr BLT download:
Ticket to Ride
words and music by J. L. and P.M.
Dr BLT feat. Roxie
http://www.drblt.net/music/...
The winner (the first one to get the correct answer and post it in the comments section) receive a copies of...
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Welcome to my new series. A special version of Lyric Today/Hear it Tomorrow. This song was inspired by Lloyd Reading's Tuesday evening visit to my home recording studio, The BuckarooM, and by my first exposure to John Mellancamp's new CD. I listened to it on my way to work...
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Welcome to Bakersfield Sound Trivia Quest. I'm Dr. BLT, and I'll be your host. The answer will be revealed after a day or two. The answer will be revealed in a similar picture to this one. You'll find it at:
Bakersfield Sound Underground
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I'm talking about the song, not an actual guitar, but if anybody has a Buck Owens red, white and blue guitar that they would like to auction off at the song's "live" debut, let me know.
On July 4th from about 8 am to 10 pm, me and Hank Ray will be on the patio at...
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The short film producer (who doubles as one of the fastest-rising guitarists in the nu Bako Sound underground movement from the krock crop, or the Kern County country rock crop), Hank Ray, told let me know "all I have to do is act naturally." And, acting naturally comes...
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There's good news for procrastinators and for those requiring more confidence and more encouragement to enter. The deadline for Bakersfield's Next Buck Talent Competition, initially set for June 1, 2008, has been extended until September 1.
For those who wish to know what this...
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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------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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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One of our favorite bloggers has brightened our Monday morning with his Buck/Beatles love mash-up.
Thanks, Dr. BLT.
Listen to the recording here.
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Welcome to the latest edition of Bakersfield Sound Trivia Quest. I'm Dr. BLT. I'll be your blog n roll host.
Today's questions are embeded in the song fragment you are hearing if you've hit the play button on the play station located in the top left-hand corner of this blog...
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I've never interviewed a friendlier, more hospitable interviewee than Bakersfield's own Jim Shaw, of the Buckaroos, quintessential recording engineer during some of the most productive days to come out of the history of the Buck Owens Studios.
Jim Shaw not only plays great keyboards. ...
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The significance of The Buck Owens Studios Farewell Session, lies not in the fact that it was the last solo project to be completed at the old Buck Owens Studios (which became Fat Tracks, and then Pig Studio). Moreover, it matters not that I was the solo artist who recorded the last solo...
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Welcome to the "I Wish it were the Cousin Herb Trading Post Show" Show. I'm your host and today's VJ, Dr. BLT. Today we're featuring a you tube video clip that stars Buck Owens and Don Rich singing together again------no, not the song, "Together Again," but singing...
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I've held a few here before, but now I've taken them underground. Today, at
http://www.bakersfieldsound...
we'll be holding the first ever Underground Buckaholics Anonymous Meeting. I'm Dr. BLT, and I'll be your group facilitator. The only requirement to attend the...
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On Thursday, May 15, I'll stop the world, just long enough for you to melt with this! This one is for all of you experimental nu bako sound artists out there. I'm beginning a brand new series on Thursday, May 15 at the all new Bakersfield Sound Underground blog site.
It poses a series of...
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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...
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There has been some confusion surrounding that issue, so I just wanted to make that clear. Think outside the Buck box, or "the bux."
You can be a solo act, a band, a male, a female or a duo. For more information on Bakersfield's Next Buck contest, visit this
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Money talks. Money weilds influence. Is this city, and the local media, "Under the Influence" of Buck, or simply under the influence of the bucks Buck left behind? I've heard songs---really great songs, from the likes of Tuney Reeves and Jim Jones, that are...
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The deadline is June 30, but as we've learned from Pig studios, a deadlines and closing dates are never set in stone. But there's a chance you'll miss out, if you think you have what it takes to be Bakersfield's Next Buck, now is the time for you to show us what you've got....
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Some of you last-minute-in-the-door-seeking musicians desiring to secure your rightful place in Bakersfield Sound history at the home of the old Buck Owens studios (re-named Fat Tracks and, later, Pig) might have discovered an apparent contradiction that seems to violate the laws of fairness....
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Imagine a resolution were put together to have the official name of our city changed from Bakersfield to Buckersfield, and city government officials were about to vote on the measure. If you were invited to a community forum to express your opinion on the resolution, would you attend? ...
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Here are your choices:
a. Buck Owens
b. Blue Metal
c. Dr BLT
d. Iron Outlaws
e. Tom Petty and Mudcrutch
f. Dwight Yaoham
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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
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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...
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A longtime resident of Bakersfield talks country music and intersperses recollections of country legends Buck Owens and Merle Haggard.
Read the blog post here.
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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...
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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...
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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),...
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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...
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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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Thanks to Dr BLT's Blog n Roll Studio for this fantastic blog post, chronicling the ongoing searching for the next Buck Owens.
Click on the audio bar above the photo for Dr BLT's original song.
Check it out here.
For many, Buck Owens is/was Bakersfield's most famous resident. He...
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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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REMEMBERS...
GET YOUR COLLECTOR'S EDITION TODAY FREE ALL OVER BAKERSFIELD...
(CLICK COVER BELOW TO GET YOURS)
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