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If you're a band or an artist with any connection at all to the Bakersfield Sound, and you're good, I can get your song on the radio on a show out of Marin County called Bakersfield and Beyond.

I'm a regular call-in guest on the show, I'm regularily on the playlist and whether I deserve it or not, they take my requests very seriously.

They have a very broad definition of what sort of style fits in with the Bakersfield Sound and it's evolving new generation of nu sound. 

Send me your mp3s and keep me posted on what's going on with your band or solo act/(duo). 

Soulajar, The Councilmen, Big House, Meastro, many other local artists have had their songs aired on this show. 

I'm Dr BLT: Send me your bios and mp3s:

drblt@drblt.net

or contact the show and tell Mike and Amanda Dr BLT referred you:

http://www.bakersfieldandbe...

I'll see you, or rather, hear you, on the radio!

Dr BLT

http://www.bakersfieldsound...

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Hi everybody!  Matt, congratulations on your new radio gig!  I wanted to inform folks that another midnight release happened while you were sleeping.  Actually, the song had to be released about 45 minutes early due to alleged rumors of a bootleg edition surfacing on the internet.  The song is from a CD that will be released digitally, one song at a time.  It's my brand new follow up to the CD, From Buck Owens Blvd to Merle Haggard Drive, and it's called KICK-ASS COUNTRY.  The "Ass" in KICK-ASS COUNTRY," actually refers to a donkey (and BTW, no donkey's or "asses" were actually harmed during the making of this CD.

http://drblt.net/1-2-3-musi...

I don't know if they plan to debut the song, HOUSEWIFE BLUES tonight on the beloved Bakersfield and Beyond show out of Marin County, but it's a great show (and I'm not just saying that because I'm a regular call-in guest and because my songs are generally aired right next to the likes of Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Alvin and Guilty Woman and Tommy Collins songs, though I'm exceedingly grateful for this undeserved honor).  

Stream the show tonight at about 6:40 pm (I generally come on at about 8 pm) and the show ends at 8:30 pm.

http://www.kwmr.org

For more information on the show:

http://www.bakersfieldandbe...

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Be sure to catch me, Dr BLT, all the way "LIVE" at the ELEMENT LOUNGE, 1927 K Street in Bakersfield, California on Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 8 pm for a set of original Dr BLTunes like the one I plan to develop as a multi-artist recording soon to raise money for victims of the earthquake in Haiti:

Homeless Valentine (sample)

Dr BLT

words/music by Dr BLT © 2010

http://www.drblt.net/music/...

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The day was Tuesday, January 12, 2010.  I came across these alien cowboy hitchhikers on my way to work the other day, on the freeway enterance on Buck Owens Blvd., right across from Buck Owens' Crystal Palace. I was in a hurry but stopped to introduce myself. They were silent. I asked if they were in a band, they said no. I asked if they were cowboys. They said no. Then, in a strange sort of sci-fi voice, they said in unison, "We are carpenters." I was running late for work, so I had to leave the scene of this alien carpenters sighting. Only in Bakersfield. I sense a new song in the works.

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Well, there were two great things, musically, to happen in the decade everybody seems to be maoning and groaning about.  Those were the return of the Bakersfield Sound, compliments of Bakersfield and Beyond, aired on kwmr...

http://www.bakersfieldandbe...

and then, there was this song, my pick for the best song of the decade:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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DECEMBER 19, 2009 was an historic day in the evolution of the Bakersfield Sound.  It was truly magical and incredible, but I won't tease you any longer with bits and pieces of the story of the recording of HOMELESS CHRISTMAS MEDLEY.  You can find all the details here:

Bakersfield Sound Underground

http://www.bakersfieldsound...

Stayed tuned for more, and I mean that literally!

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On December 19th, from 9 am to noon, Dr BLT, Mark Yeary of Merle Haggard and the Strangers and Dave Wulfekueler of the Buckaroos will all gather at Bakersfield Music and Recording studios with multiple band/artists to record Do-they-Know-it's-Christmas-styled version of a Christmas medley for the homeless, one Dr BLT penned and Mark Yeary produced in between gigs with Merle and plans with Willie Nelson.

For more information, vist

Bakersfield Sound Underground

http://www.bakersfieldsound...

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Don't feel hopeless in response to the homeless.  If you're a musician, there's a big way you can help out by making music this year.

For details on THE BAKERSFIELD SOUND OF CHRI STMAS multi-artist/muti-band recording project, and to play some Dr BLTrivia, take a little trip underground:

Bakersfield Sound Underground (BSU)

http://www.bakersfieldsound...

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Imagine there ain't no parties
except the celebratin' kind
imagine there's no right wing
or left wing, no it's simply
you and I
imagine all the people
seekin' common ground
yee hi ee i
you may say it's over
but we've only just begun
I hope someday you'll join us
and the world will live as one...

Common-ground-seeker paraphrase of John Lennon by Dr BLT

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Other guys may feel threatened or insecure after seeing the movie, New Moon, with their wives or girlfriends. Not me. What's that punk's name who stars in it again? Oh, yes, Taylor Lautner. Well, I noticed that my pecs were actually much bigger than his. Maybe a bit softer, but definitely bigger.

PS: Please, no man boob jokes!