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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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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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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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 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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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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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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  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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