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July 31, 2008 was an historic day in the Bakersfield sound moving it forward movement, involving cross-generational mentoring.  It was the day local living legend Lloyd Reading arrived on the campus of College of the Canyons as a guest speaker/singer at my Chapman University Developmental...
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I asked, and they graciously and enthusiastically agreed to host BAKERSFIELD'S NEXT BUCK TALENT CONTEST.  I am humbled and honored by their hospitality.  I've always said that, as it pertains to the Bakersfield sound, if lightening strikes twice, Trout's will be the lightening rod that...
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Welcome to Bakersfield Sound Trivia Quest.  I'm Dr. BLT and I'll be your host.  The link to this "hick" hop song, from the CD, Confessions of a Buckaholic, by yours truly, got it's first internet hit in 2006.  It's called BYOB.  http://www.drblt.net Now,...
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The remix features my brother, Brad, member of a bluegrass band in Slovakia, and my daughter on keyboards, at the age of 2 (she's 3 now).  Tell me where my daughter comes in (at the beginning, the middle, or the very end of the song, and win an autographed copy of the CD upon which the song...
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It was a surrealistic photo session and a jam session of a lifetime.  It's a long story, but you can catch the first part of it and catch the lyrics to one of the songs on the "soundtrack" to our Buck Owens ranch trek today at: Bakersfield Sound Underground   ...
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 Good morning, Bakersfield!  Today at Bakersfield Sound Underground http://www.bakersfieldsound... you can find out more about what the role this man, Lloyd Reading (pictured here with my daughter) is playing in moving the Bakersfield sound of yore to a new generation,...
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Mr. Lloyd Reading, formerly of the Bob Manning Trio and the Blackboard Playboys, is helping to bridge the Bakersfield sound generation gap, by joining a couple of younger Bakersfield-sound-rooted songwriters with a song that pays tribute to the Blackboard, the very plays he...
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I had to pinch myself in the BuckarooM last night to find out if I was really in the middle of producing this haunted, romantic ballad by rising nu bako sound artist, Hank Ray, or if it was a dream.  As it turned out, it was a dream, but a dream come true. 
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Hank Ray was over in the BuckarooM last night for a single-question interview that doubled as the song you are hearing right now.  I was a bit circumlocutory in asking the question, but he didn't beat around the bush at all.  You'll have to wait until the end of the song to hear his...
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It's rooted in the past.  It's grounded in the Bakersfield Sound.  It's symbolically represented by the changing of the guard, or the passing of the torch from the Bakersfield sound generation to generations of younger artists and fans. It's hard to define.  Some terms I've come...
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At: Bakesfield Sound Underground http://www.bakersfieldsound... you find the complete edition of episode 2 of this new series: Songs inspired by Red Simpson.  Red Simpson is to truck songs as Johnny Cash is to train songs.  Red is one of the living legends of the...
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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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IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING---two generations, united by one sound, the Bakersfield sound.  Tonight, beginning at 7 pm, the man Hank Ray and I have named "Playbody Lloyd" in this co-written song of ours, will be joining us in an historic video-taped interview/recording session in my own...
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As promised, I started a new series at Bakersfield Sound Underground today.  It's called Bakersfield Sound Garden.  It's where we take seeds from the old Bakersfield Sound "trees," that is, music of yore, that distinctly represents the Bakersfield Sound, and the spirit of...
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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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