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This is the actual photograph of the broken hand referred to in the story. The story is contained in the song, so I won't be redundant by telling it here again.  It's a remarkable story about coping and rising above one's misfortunes.  It's a real story about a real person I met on the...
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 Here's a story from the series inspired by Homer Joy's Streets of Bakersfield, made popular by the late, great Buck Owens.    There's an apparent contradiction in the story-line embedded in the lyrics of the song.  Your job today, as you play my game of blog n roll is to...
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  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...
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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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 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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