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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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They have lots of great coffee drinks, beer, and pastries, but this is the only CD you'll find at Dagny's, at least for the time being. It's kind of nice, for a change, not to have any competition. Come to Dagny's. It's a cool place to hang out, discuss the rise,...
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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 released just last night, "The Buck Owens Studios Farewell Session," contains both the mixes that were done at Pig Studios (formerly, informally known as Buck Owens Studios and then Fat Tracks) at the original rough mixes from my own home studio, the BuckarooM.
The CD has...
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Everybody's talking about the two big events to be held in Bakersfield this weekend. Whether you've gone country, whether you've gone underground, or whether you've done both and lived to tell about it, you'll want to know about these 2 big events and you'll want to be there.
The...
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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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There may be a few names history will remember that I've forgotten, so forgive me if you happened to have made REAL history here and I left you out.
HISTORY HUMBLED ME HERE. It's keeps humbling me every time my ego tries to take center stage. Fate was trying to tell me something when...
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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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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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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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If you didn't happen to catch the front-page story about the closing of Buck Owen's recording studio, which eventually evolved into Fat Tracks, and, finally, Pig, I'd recommend that you check it out. If you go back to
http://www.bakersfield.com&...
you'll find both the article, the original...
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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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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 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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BAKOTOPIA SCOOP:
BUCK OWENS STUDIOS TO CLOSE!
APRIL 1ST, 2008!
(CLICK ON PICTURE BELOW TO READ THE STORY!)
EXCLUSIVE VINTAGE PHOTOS AND STORIES!!
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