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Welcome to the blog n roll game, Bakersfield Sound Trivia Quest.  I'm Dr. BLT, and I'll be your humble host.  Today's question is based on the fictional song about a Christmas dinner I alledgedly had with Merle Haggard.  The song is called My Christmas Dinner with Merle...
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If you haven't heard yet, Merle Haggard is in a local hospital, recovering from the surgical removal of a cancerous tumor on his lungs.  Today, I've released a sample of the new song, Get Well, Merle Haggard, Get Well, and I've created a forum for all of you Merle Haggard fans to post your...
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If you haven't heard yet, Merle Haggard is in a local hospital, recovering from the surgical removal of a cancerous tumor on his lungs.  Today, I've released a sample of the new song, Get Well, Merle Haggard, Get Well, and I've created a forum for all of you Merle Haggard fans to post your...
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Were you an adolescent that went astray, like Merle Haggard did?  Are you the parent of a child that took the wrong road? If you have a story to tell about how you turned it all around, tell it here, at the site of this brand new song.  Here are the lyrics, the recording is in the...
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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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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 this morning, and found that it to be quite an inspiration.  This song will be...
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Gather your hoes, your shovels, your work gloves, your garden hats, and all of your garden tools.  Most of all, gather your seeds, tomorrow, at Bakersfield Sound Underground, http://www.bakersfieldsound...   I'm going to help you plant a...
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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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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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Glenn Pogatchnik, a personal friend of mine, and a friend of Merle's as well, who is known as "The Ambassador of the Bakersfield Sound," and runs the popular blog site, That Bakersfield Sound has let me know that Merle Haggard is in need of our prayers for his health. Glenn shared...
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The significance of The Buck Owens Studios Farewell Session, lies not in the fact that it was the last solo project to be completed at the old Buck Owens Studios (which became Fat Tracks, and then Pig Studio).  Moreover, it matters not that I was the solo artist who recorded the last solo...
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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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Welcome to A Merle Haggard Mental Health Moment, where the songs of Bakersfield and Oildale's own Merle Haggard are examined in search of mental health nuggets of knowledge.  I'm Dr. BLT and I'll be your blog n roll host.  Today we examine the lyrics to Every Fool has a Rainbow. ...
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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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