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Mr. Lloyd Reading, formerly of the Bob Manning Trio and the Blackboard Playboys, is helping to bridge the Bakersfield sound generation gap, by joining a couple of younger Bakersfield-sound-rooted songwriters with a song that pays tribute to the Blackboard, the very plays he...
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Friday, July 18, 2008 Lloyd Reading, His Journey Through The Past, Part 2 - RAINBOW GARDENS Lloyd Reading, His Journey Through The Past,Part Two, Rainbow Gardens Honky Tonk Kern County Museum BW photos.   Lloyd, his daughter Anna and myself, had just left the the old Pumpkin...
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  hursday, July 17, 2008 Lloyd Reading, His Journey Through The Past, Part 1 -Pumpkin Center Barn Dance Kern County Museum for B & W Photos "Cousin Ebb's Pumpkin Center Barn Dance" Above Lloyd shows me the doors that he and the Bob Manning Trio...
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“The Blackboard was the biggest, loudest, roughest bar in Bakersfield for the better part of a quarter-century. Its owners could not have known, back in 1949, that it would become known as the freewheeling cradle of the Bakersfield Sound, the most legendary of the city’s half-dozen...
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Lloyd Reading came DR. BLT's Buck-a-room -Recording Studio and played many of his classic  tunes and we filmed an hour long interview there about the old Black Board days in Bakersfield. Lloyd talked about the dust bowl days and when he fist met Buck Owens.   Lloyd loved the article...
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 Just in time for summer, James McClintock (pictured here in the BuckarooM) and me, Dr BLT, have teamed up to create a summer love song, based on the story about how James and his girlfriend met.  They told me their story, James and me put it in the song, and the rest is history---I...
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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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There's good news for procrastinators and for those requiring more confidence and more encouragement to enter.  The deadline for Bakersfield's Next Buck Talent Competition, initially set for June 1, 2008, has been extended until September 1.  For those who wish to know what this...
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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 are right answers, there are wrong answers, and then, there's the best answer.  If you feel you have the best answer, post it under the comments section at: Bakersfield Sound Underground Tomorrow, June 25, 2008.  You'll win a prize, and you'll win the comforting...
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This photo I took is not posted here to necessarily represent my preference.  I enjoy both and I need you to help me if I'm ever caught in this jam (pun wholly intended): It's a Saturday night.  There's a kick-ass country band playing at Trout's and there's one playing over at the...
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Welcome to Bakersfield Sound Trivia Quest (BSTQ).  I'm Dr. BLT.  I'll be the host of today's challenge question. You'll choose between two, both located within blocks of one another, in downtown Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.  The first of these two is pictured here.  You'll need...
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It's good to be back on The Streets of Bakersfield Homer, Buck and Dwight made famous, but I sure had a great time travelling down the highways of mid-western Canada talking to Canadians and tourists from all around the world about the Bakersfield Sound.  This picture was taken on the way...
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