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FALLOW THE CAMERA TO A GREAT PROFESSIONAL RECORDING STUDIO WITH LOCAL CELEBRITY DR. BLT. THIS IS A GREAT FILM!!! FILMED -JUNE 2009
Lots of local talent helps out, including Rockwell from Trouts. I was not good enough for this project but feel free to check out my other posts for my...
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This video shows some of the Bakersfield sound in my song of the same name. Note the addition of Clarence White whom has been left out of the story until now. He was in the 1960s band "Nashville West" he invented the B bender and the style used by most pickers today both in country and...
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A full-on Bakersfield sound revival may gathering steam like the perfect storm. First, it was KWMR's Bakersfield and Beyond, the biggest radio show featuring Bakersfield sound music since the golden era of the Bakersfield sound.
Then Hank Ray came out with the short horror flick...
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Giants Ants Eat Bakersfield, Death of the Bakersfield Sound. Funny Film
link:
http://vids.myspace.com/ind...
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If you've been listening to my input on KWMR's Bakersfield and Beyond radio show, you'll know where my biases lie. I believe in being true to our musical roots, to our own musical communities and supporting our own native sons.
If you were asked to pick one of these, which Hank would you...
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Mother's day Country Music Gram, for all moms from Bakersfields' own Hank Ray
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=BacIAIBD0eY
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Welcome to Part I of the very first Edgar Alvises Trivia Quest involving our very first single as Alvis Edgar Wannabes. I'm Dr BLT of the Edgar Alvises and I'll be your host. Today, you're being asked questions about She Don't Even Know how to Dance, the very first...
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I call it Hank's Haunted House, but Hank contributed the lion's share of the work on it, so who am I to give it a title? I can't thank Hank Ray enough for allowing me to add my 2-cents worth to what I believe will be another future Hank Ray classic.
It was recorded on August 7, 2008...
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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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Here's another one about one of Bakersfield's last Bakersfield sound artists still living. breathing, and walking the Streets of Bakersfield---even singing and performing at Trout's every weekend.
If you've never experienced a Sonny Night, you've never heard him play at Trout's.
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When I heard this haunting, romantic ballad in the BuckarooM last night, I had to pinch myself to find out if I was really in the middle of producing it, or if it was a dream. As it turns out, it was a dream, but a dream come true.
Here's Hank Ray's latest, Shadows.
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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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IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING---two generations, united by one sound, the Bakersfield sound. Tonight, beginning at 7 pm, the man Hank Ray and I have named "Playbody Lloyd" in this co-written song of ours, will be joining us in an historic video-taped interview/recording session in my own...
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Welcome to the No Guts No Glory edition of Lyric Today/Hear it Tomorrow. The following is a duet I penned this morning, especially for Sonny Langley and Red Simpson, a couple of local Bakersfield Sound legends.
Whether they agree to record it or not, is their business, and they...
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I won't mention him by name, but he's somebody that's a perfectionist, and I'm far from perfect--more of an amateur in many respects. He's had to be a perfectionist, in order to produce some of the greatest music associated with some of the biggest names in country music to come out of the...
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GOOD DAY! Welcome to my new series, NO GUTS, NO GLORY. It's a step-by-step (or in some cases, it will be misstep-by-misstep) guide to long shots I take on the oft-failure-ridden road to success as a singer/songwriter.
Today, I'm going to have the guts to ask Bakersfield's own...
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Hank Ray wrote these lyrics last night and sent them to me. I put music to them, and the song has been added to the Buck's Red, White and Blue special edition CD to be released tomorrow at Starbucks.
Please learn it. We'll need to follow along with you at the Starbucks patio...
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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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Before Buck and before Merle, there was Mr. Lloyd Reading. He's the most accessible living legend from the earliest of the Bakersfield Sound generation. At 89 years of age, he's the man the younger generations of Bakersfield Sound-rooted artists are turning to for mentoring and for...
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Last night's gig at Starbucks on Rosedale Highway and Calloway was well attended, by a wide rage of age groups (the youngest being my daughter (seen here) who will turn 3 in July. with a wide-range of musical style preferences. Dubbed Coffee as Art, it was all for a good...
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