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I took this photo at the Crystal Palace on Saturday, April 12, 2008. I call it Passing the Torch. There's an old star from the Bakersfield Sound era pictured here, and a young star, currently hot on the country charts. The other guy is someone I met at Homer Joy's birthday...
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In the game of blog n roll, I supply the topic and the tune and you supply the talk. Today's topic is the inspiration behind the song you are hearing from the play station on the top left-hand corner of this blog post if you've hit the play bar.
Simply answer the question to the best of your...
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What's a relay without a theme song? Well, the Relay for Life events would probably do quite well without me, but to set the tone for my contribution to the events, I would like to introduce this new theme song.
Hear it by hitting the play bar at the play station above the icon in...
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Here's a story from the series inspired by Homer Joy's Streets of Bakersfield, made popular by the late, great Buck Owens.
There's an apparent contradiction in the story-line embedded in the lyrics of the song. Your job today, as you play my game of blog n roll is to find the...
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It's still your birthday for 2 minutes, so have a Happy 2, Homer! Oh, it's now 1 minute. I better hurry!
Here's your hint:
http://www.tollbooth.org/20...
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That is the question, and it's an easy one for many. The first one to get it correct wins a front-row pass to my Relay for Life Performance at Starbucks on Rosedale Highway near Calloway, next to Wendys this Thursday, April 17 at 6 pm.
Ready, set, blog n roll!
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Yes, it's another birthday, thank God, for Homer Joy. He's a terrific songwriter who penned The Streets of Bakersfield for Buck. He's had a heart transplant, but he's always, and will always have a big heart for these streets of Bakersfield and all the people that walk them....
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Welcome to my blog n roll baking class. I'm Dr. BLT. I'll be your chef and your instructor.
Today we're going to bake a Jerry's Trout Pizza. Of course, we're talking metaphors here. We're talking about "bakin" a new sound from the fusion of two...
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http://www.billboard.com/bb...
Time's up.
Here's the second question:
What's wrong with this picture?
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My Remedy for Writer's Block
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008
the sun has come
and it has gone
I haven't written
one damn song
this writer's block is killin' me
but I know it won't be long
whenever...
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The Trekkies just can't get enough of movie scenes being shot in Kern County. Check out a Google Earth view of the location and theories on who was behind the wheel of the red Corvette.
Meanwhile, another day at the Kern County Fairgrounds nets meager profits, but good stories for a rock and gem...
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You never know when a song is going to come, and you never know where it's going to come from. The following song was inspired when a blog post of mine involving a song called Merle's Girl, led a young lady over at Bakotopia.com to reply with a touching story about growing up with her...
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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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I borrowed this announcement from this blogger.
http://www.bakotopia.com/ho...
I hope you don't mind, kookoonauts.
I hope to make this event, and I'm hoping that if you're Bakersfield's Next Buck, I'll discover you there, and I do mean discover. ...
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If Jerry's Trout Pizza ever catches on, I want to be one of the delivery boys.
In my humble opinion, the Bakersfield music scene is struggling to find itself, after a post-Bakersfield-Sound-post-Korn identity crisis. In my opinion, there exists a collosal...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Here's your chance to judge the song before others do. This my American Idol Songwriter Competition entry. This Dr BLTune is covered here by local artist Alyssa Kaess. While you're at it, name the correct number of Beatles song titles named in the song, and win a free mp3 copy...
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Here's the quote I'm putting out as a boat in your stream of thought. All you need to do in the comments section is to shout, either SINK! or FLOAT! and then support the rational for your judgment of this quote. This quote was extracted off of the back of Phillip E. Johnson's book,...
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Oops, sorry for the typo, but let's take this lemon and make lemonade out of it by "starting a conversation" about starting a conversation about global warning.
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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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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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You saw it here first. Well, maybe not, but it's almost better the second time around. Welcome to BLTv. I'm Dr BLT. I'm your host and blog VJ. Today we're featuring the Notorious Cherry Bombs. This is It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night...
Well, you get the...
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You saw it here first. Well, maybe not, but it's almost better the second time around. Welcome to BLTv. I'm Dr BLT. I'm your host and blog VJ. Today we're featuring the Notorious Cherry Bombs. This is It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night...
Well, you get the...
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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: There's no sweeter way to go under than going under as an...
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There you have it. I've laid my doubts about Obama on the table, the "turn table" you might say. But the real question is, have the tables been turned in this struggle between Hillary and Barak and between the Republican party and the Democratic party? Does Obama's...
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I was intrigued and moved by this one child's ability to take a sour, sour lemon, and make lemonade out of it, in the true Steve Swenson tradition. It makes me wonder how I can possibly drum up so much self-pity in the midst of showers of blessings that God has bestowed upon me. ...
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Well....... I'm waiting. Who wants to be the first to speak out? What's the matter?
Right-wingers Need Love Too
Dr BLT
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008
http://www.drblt.net/music/...
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