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The new Bakersfield Sound underground movement is at hand, and what is a movement without a mascot?
I hereby nominate this dog, last spotted at Trout's as the mascot and symbol of the new sound to emerge from The Streets of Bakersfield, born of the old Bakersfield Sound movement, and...
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I'll be there at about 8:30 am to perform this tribute to a record store that's closing its doors---one that we all love, namely, World Records, owned by a store owner and operator we all love: Pat.
I've recorded a low-budget, amateurish version of the song that you're hearing...
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I've been walking Homer Joy's Streets of Bakersfield, all the way From Buck Owens Blvd to Merle Haggard Drive. I've been meeting people and writing songs that tell their stories. Some are true, some are altered to protect the innocent, and some are flat-out fiction, like...
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C'mon, you can do it! Welcome to my blog n roll studio. I'm your host, Dr BLT. In the game of blog n roll, I supply the topic and the tunes, and you supply the talk.
I took this pic at the Merle Haggard street-signing ceremony a few weeks back, on The Day Merle...
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I said it yesterday, but it's just as true today:
It's not easy being an underdog. As an underdog---a true underdog, you have to be content paying your dues until the day you die.
but if you're going under, and you're misunderstood, understand...
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It's not easy being an underdog. As an underdog---a true underdog, you have to be content paying your dues until the day you die.
but if you're going under, and you're misunderstood, understand this: There's no sweeter way to go under than going under as an...
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Talk on the Streets of Bakersfield suggested it was highly anticipated. Now it's here. Two other publications have notified me of their plans to publish it. I only pitched it to these two and Tollbooth, so more may be wanting to jump on the Bakersfield Sound...
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I'll meet you noonish today on the patio between Zingo's Cafe and The Boss on Buck Owens Boulevard.
Get Rich quick. Cash in on a real HooteNOONee today. Kick back and earn some hard-earned play as I get into a set featuring back-2-back Buck Owens/Johnny Cash tunes---not...
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Bakersfield Sound Trivia Quest:
What was the name of the band that played at the Crystal Palace several days after Johnny Cas passed away---the one featured on this music video that also happens to feature me and many others?:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
1. Steppenwolf...
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8:45 am at Starbucks, right next to Denny's on Merle Haggard Drive right off 99. It's Monday Morning on Merle Haggard Drive. Wear green and learn this song, so you can sing along:
Lucky Buck
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008
I heard someone call him...
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Jason Corbin, frontman for Bartender's Bible, took a break from his tour with the band to jam with Jim and myself at our regular weekday 12 o'clock HootaNOONee on the patio in between Zingo's and the accompanying lounge, The Boss.
Jason sang a few Merle Haggard tunes and Jim and I sang...
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BAKERSFIELD SOUNDwaves:
Of course most of you are painfully aware of how much I hate fame, or even the thought of it. Fortune, or rather, the thought of it, has also made me ill.
So is it any wonder why I would be getting worried, now that a Chicks-dissin'-ditty I wrote, recorded...
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