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To promote my forthcoming CD, From Buck Owens Blvd. to Merle Haggard Drive, I'll be providing free 15 minute BLT with jam session musical meals on Buck Owens Boulevard, starting today.
To win the first official autographed copy of the CD, find me on Buck Owens Boulevard at 12:15 pm today as I...
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I wrote this song on Merle Haggard Drive at our Sunday on Merle Haggard Drive gig yesterday morning. My sax player was right next to me. I'll debut "I'll Meet you on Merle Haggard Drive," right on Merle Haggard Drive this morning (or it's attached here if...
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This Sunday (today), beginning around 8:30 am, I'll be on Merle Haggard Drive in front of the new Starbucks playing Merle's favorite hymns like this one:
Softly and Tenderly
Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling calling for you and for me
See on the portals he's waiting and...
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Welcome to BAKERSFIELD SOUND off, my new blog rockin' round table series. Here's today's topic:
What do you feel it would take for a local kid to become Bakersfield's Next Buck? By now, most of you know how to play blog n roll, but it you don't, it's quite simple. I...
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Good morning Bakersfield's Next Buck Contestants!
If you'd like to get a head start on the rest of the contestants, learn the song and meet in front of Starbucks on Merle Haggard Drive this morning at about 8:30 am.
If you are Bakersfield's Next Buck then you probably don't need me to...
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I'd like to invite you to another outdoor performance, the second in a new series called Mornings on Merle Haggard Drive.
I'll be performing Merle Haggard Drive, The Day Merle Haggard Stole My Pen, From Buck Owens Boulevard to Merle Haggard Drive and also a few Merle...
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Are you Bakersfield's next Buck? If you think you could be the next Buck Owens, send me an mp3 of one of your performances at:
drblt@drblt.net
or post an mp3 or youtube link right here in the comments section and tell us all why you should be Bakersfield's Next Buck in the comments...
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It seemed like the perfect metaphor to depict my life. I was clearly under the weather, but couldn't miss this for the world. I was attending the official street naming party for Merle Haggard and the ceremony was wrapping up. I had my open pen in hand and my Merle Haggard's 16...
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I went to the ceremony today at the Harley Davidson dealer on what is now Merle Haggard Dr. If someone has an extra ticket for tonight's show, call me.
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This is one of the most poignant live duets I've ever come across. It is included in the rare footage of Johnny Cash's TV shows that I picked up at Starbucks the other day. As we pay tribute to the legend that was, and will always be Ken Nelson, let's consider the debt our very own...
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I've been performing outdoors at Starbucks for about 10 years (including the one in Sacramento). Once in awhile, they invite me in for an "official" show. December 20, 2007 at 7 pm at Starbucks at the Rosedale Highway Target/Coles shopping center, will be one of those...
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I'm in the process of preparing the song list for my forthcoming Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down show for November 11. After picking my favorite among Johnny Cash's favorite Christmas songs, selecting a few of my faves from Johnny Cash's mother's hymn book, adding a few of my favorite standard...
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For those who just can't get enough of me, Dr. BLT (all two or three of you), I would like to direct you to this month's edition of Phantom Tollbooth, an e-zine that examines music and entertainment from a Christian persective.
This month, you'll find my regular features:
1. Ask...
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There aren't many brights sides to growing old. But for those of us just barely old enough to remember 45 rpm records, being able to hold on to memories of B-side songs represents one of the bright sides of growing old.
One of my favorite B-side 45s was the B-side of Andy Kim's...
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Welcome to my new BLOGame show, I Wanna Be a Rock Star.
Where's the drummer? As you can see in the photo, and as you can hear in the song: Something's missing. Someone's missing, and that someone is you!
Today, Kern County drummers will be invited to download this Dr BLTune...
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