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Step right up, come on in If you'd like to take the grand tour Of a lonely house that once was home sweet home I have nothing here to sell you Just some things that I will tell you Some things I know will chill you to the bone There's no way of making grief feel good, but the best way to...
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Step right up, come on in If you'd like to take the grand tour Of a lonely house that once was home sweet home I have nothing here to sell you Just some things that I will tell you Some things I know will chill you to the bone There's no way of making grief feel good, but the best way to...
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Has anybody seen this old girl around?  If you have, give her my regards. Stories and Songs from The Streets of Bakersfield is a series based on the huge hit Homer wrote for Buck Owens---The Streets of Bakersfield.  The stories, and the songs are born from conversations I have with...
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We'll meet you at Zingo's Cafe patio right next to The Boss lounge noonish today for a HooteNOONee.  We're going to bring one of the statues standing at the Crystal Palace come to life today, that bronze giant being George Jones. Today, Jim Jones and myself, God willing, will...
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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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 Let's continue to start a conversation about a conversation about race.  Today we're trying to figure out what Obama meant when he mentioned the "typical white guy."   In my world of blog n roll, I supply the topic and the tune.  Today's tune is my new hick hop...
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 JUST GET OVER IT!  COWBOY UP!  GET ON WITH IT!  There may be teens, and perhaps adults that need to hear these words.  But at the risk of being cast into the stereotype of the shrink with a predilection for excusing bad behavior, I would suggest that sometimes bad...
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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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 On Saturday morning, April 5, 2008 at approximately 8:30 am, I'll be the Streets of Bakersfield street musician sitting in front of Starbucks on Rosedale Highway, just east of Calloway, singing THE SONGS BEHIND THE STATUES: The 10 Legends of Bronze statues standing at the Crystal...
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I would try to get a copy of this song to Merle Haggard, but I don't want to intrude into his personal life.  I'm not his doctor.  I'm not so filled with a narcissistic sense of self-importance that I have any reason to believe the song would ever reach him even if I tried to send...
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 When I discovered that the old Buck Owens Studios (aka Fat Tracks, aka Pig) were closing the doors, and learned more about the rich history of the place, I began mourning what I had missed out on all of the years I've been recording.   I had spoken with Rick Davis about...
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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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This will be done with Ferlin Husky songs I've never heard before, so it should be an interesting experiment.  All of my experiments are done for the sake of finding a brand new Bako sound.  Many of my experiments in the past have flopped, so attend this FEARLESS FERLIN FEVER...
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  Well, there's several more weeks left to get your submissions in for BAKERSFIELD'S NEXT BUCK.  This is Jason Corbin.  He's the frontman for Bartenders Bible, playing guitar and singing lead.  Jason and his band have been performing in Bakersfield where they have roots...
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 Good morning, Bakersfield! I'll be heading out to the site of the Buck Owens recording studios to (God willing) record a handful of tunes paying tribute to the history of this place, in the process of closing its doors. Songs to be recorded include There's a Ghost in This...
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