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Homer Joy, who wrote Buck Owen's most memorable hit song, a song that won a grammy when Buck recorded it with Dwight Yoakam, and the man who hit the charts again with the song, John Law, will be a guest on Bakersfield and Beyond tonight at kwmr. For details and to hear a sample of the song...
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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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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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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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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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It's free. All you have to do is to be a Homer Joy fan, and to blog n roll. Blog n roll is a game I invented that involves me supplying the topics and the tunes, and you joining in with your own comments, links to music, you tube clips and more.
Any questions?
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Yesterday as I wrote an article for our newsletter I was listening to an instrumental version of Streets of Bakersfield.
I thought how the music seemed to put me in a "mood" of comfort and, of course reminded me of the Bakersfield 'sound' and the last time I went to the Crystal...
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It's now nearly old news that Homer Joy has a new heart. I want to wish one of Bakersfield's most famous songwriter's a speedy and full recovery. Let's all keep him in our thoughts and prayers. For anyone who may be unfamiliar with him, he wrote, Streets of Bakersfield, a song covered by Buck...
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