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It's rooted in the past.  It's grounded in the Bakersfield Sound.  It's symbolically represented by the changing of the guard, or the passing of the torch from the Bakersfield sound generation to generations of younger artists and fans. It's hard to define.  Some terms I've come...
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  There's Lloyd Reading, there's Homer Joy, there's Red Simpson, there's Billy Mize, there's Sonny Langley, just to name a few of the local living legends of the Bakersfield sound genre.  My question to those who are familiar with these cats and their Kern County country music, is...
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As the local underground music scene goes, t's one of the hottest topics to hit the Streets of Bakersfield in recent days.   I'm talking about the Bakersfield Sound generation gap. Up until now, I've been doing my best to put a spotlight on the problem, and the nature of the...
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I recently took the words to that old Little River Band song to heart and decided it was "time for a cool change."  So I gathered my wife, my nearly 3-year-old daughter, a stack of my new CDs (The Buck Owens Studios Farewell Session), and headed North to Canada. After landing in...
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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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Thank you wspalifornian, who identified the flaw that may have misguided many of you in the blog announcing the new bakersfieldsoundunderground blog site.  Here is the link to the blog thread announcing the new blog site, with the link it contains, now wholly corrected: ...
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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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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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  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...
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  Here's your hint: http://www.tollbooth.org/20...
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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...
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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...
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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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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?  ...
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