Bakotopia

Search:

View Topic

There are 206 blog posts about 'Bakersfield Sound'

view more blog topics

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Bunkccrock: BUNK-ROCK: Buck-owens-based Kern county country punk rock.  Bunkccrock: BUNK-ROCK: Buck-owens-based Kern county country punk rock.  Related terms: Krrockabilly: KROCK-A-BILLY:  A local Kern Country country rock artist, or an outsider, grounded in the Bakersfield...
Comments [0] - Views [3]
 

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...
Comments [0] - Views [1]
 

I felt like I was treading on holy ground.  After catching the announcement on the Bakotopia blog about the jam session/songwriter's workshop at Trout's, I said to myself, "Why not?" and headed over there on Monday, April 14.  I was directed down this rickety old staircase...
Comments [0] - Views [2]
 

 BAKERSFIELD SOUND Trivia Quest: Picture the Sound Edition   If you are new to the blog n roll studio, here's how you play the game.  I provide the tune and topic-------you provide the talk.   Here's your clue to today's Bakersfield Sound Trivia Quest question:...
Comments [0] - Views [1]
 

  I took this photo at the Crystal Palace on Saturday, April 12, 2008.  I call it Passing the Torch.  There's an old star from the Bakersfield Sound era pictured here, and a young star, currently hot on the country charts.  The other guy is someone I met at Homer Joy's...
Comments [0] - Views [3]
 

  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...
Comments [3] - Views [17]
 

  That is the question, and it's an easy one for many.  The hint is contained in the song you are hearing if you've pressed the play bar on the play station attached at the top left hand corner about the pic. The first one to get it correct wins a front-row pass to my Relay for Life...
Comments [0] - Views [4]
 

 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...
Comments [0] - Views [4]
 

Welcome to my new one-piece-at-a-time blog novel, Dr. Samuel von Starbuckaroo and the Bakersfield Sound Underground.  I ripped the idea off of an old Johnny Cash tune (one of the first rap songs) about a poor, recreant young automobile aficionado, working at an automobile...
Comments [0] - Views [6]
 

  You never know when a song is going to come, and you never know where it's going to come from.  The following song was inspired when a blog post of mine involving a song called Merle's Girl, led a young lady over at Bakotopia.com to reply with a touching story about growing up...
Comments [3] - Views [11]
 

 I wrote this song after putting George Jones in my CD playerand never changing the CD, all the way across town to work and back everyday for a week and all the way from LA and back.     I recorded it in my home studio, recently named the Buck-a-Room, in honor of Buck Owens...
Comments [0] - Views [5]
 

If Jerry's Trout Pizza ever catches on, I want to be one of the delivery boys.  In my humble opinion, the Bakersfield music scene is struggling to find itself, after a post-Bakersfield-Sound-post-Korn identity crisis.   In my opinion, there exists a collosal generation...
Comments [2] - Views [18]
 

Welcome to the "Too Bad it's not the Cousin Herb Show" Show. Welcome to Dr BLTv.  I'm Dr BLT.  I'll be your host and blog VJ.  Today we're going to witness the chemistry between Oildale's native son, and Bakersfield's pride and joy, Merle Haggard, and George...
Comments [0] - Views [4]
 

I was sure I came across this issue in Bakersfield writer Shellie Branco's recent, brilliantly executed interview with Merle, but it may have appeared in an expanded edition of the interview as it appears here: http://people.bakersfield.c... Bakersfield has certain...
Comments [1] - Views [8]
 

This item falls under the category of LYRIC TODAY/HEAR IT TOMORROW, but if you catch me on the patio of Zingo's Cafe for the lunchtime HooteNOONee delayed until 12:30ish today, on Buck Owens Blvd., there's a chance you can actually hear it today.  Politics will Drag us Down...
Comments [2] - Views [9]
 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Bakotopia helps people in Bakersfield, California find cool events, meet up, buy and sell stuff, find jobs and more. Learn more about us.

Forgot password?

NO ACCOUNT YET? REGISTER NOW!


Peeps to Meet



Meet More People



Who Knows Who?

Dizzyfingers - 1509 friends
captainmorgan - 999 friends
firebrats - 923 friends
thenovelist - 888 friends
matt - 875 friends

Meet People Who Like ...

View Them All | Add Yours!