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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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 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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Friday, July 18, 2008 Lloyd Reading, His Journey Through The Past, Part 2 - RAINBOW GARDENS Lloyd Reading, His Journey Through The Past,Part Two, Rainbow Gardens Honky Tonk Kern County Museum BW photos.   Lloyd, his daughter Anna and myself, had just left the the old Pumpkin...
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  hursday, July 17, 2008 Lloyd Reading, His Journey Through The Past, Part 1 -Pumpkin Center Barn Dance Kern County Museum for B & W Photos "Cousin Ebb's Pumpkin Center Barn Dance" Above Lloyd shows me the doors that he and the Bob Manning Trio...
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“The Blackboard was the biggest, loudest, roughest bar in Bakersfield for the better part of a quarter-century. Its owners could not have known, back in 1949, that it would become known as the freewheeling cradle of the Bakersfield Sound, the most legendary of the city’s half-dozen...
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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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What do you get when you take a beatnik, (or a post-beatnik), put a cowboy hat on him, and get him in touch with the Bakersfield sound history, and genre?  Give up? You get a Bucknick!  Buck's Bunkhouse is a new virtual retro Kern County country rock coffee house blog series at: ...
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  There's Lloyd Reading, there's Homer Joy, there's Red Simpson, there's Billy Mize, there's Sonny Langley, just to name a few of the local living legends of the Bakersfield sound genre.  My question to those who are familiar with these cats and their Kern County country music, is...
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Here's another rough cut from the BuckarooM.  I warn you, this one's real rough.  I wrote and recorded it this morning, after local living legend, Lloyd Reading visited my home, and my home studio, last night for some filming and song collaboration.  There's more on Bakersfield's...
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This song was inspired by Lloyd Reading's Tuesday evening visit to my home recording studio, The BuckarooM, and by my first exposure to John Mellancamp's new CD.  I listened to it on my way to work this morning, and found that it to be quite an inspiration.  This song will be...
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Lloyd Reading came DR. BLT's Buck-a-room -Recording Studio and played many of his classic  tunes and we filmed an hour long interview there about the old Black Board days in Bakersfield. Lloyd talked about the dust bowl days and when he fist met Buck Owens.   Lloyd loved the article...
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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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GOOD DAY!  Welcome to my new series, NO GUTS, NO GLORY.  It's a step-by-step (or in some cases, it will be misstep-by-misstep) guide to long shots I take on the oft-failure-ridden road to success as a singer/songwriter.  Today, I'm going to have the guts to ask Bakersfield's own...
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Before Buck and before Merle, there was Mr. Lloyd Reading.  He's the most accessible living legend from the earliest of the Bakersfield Sound generation.  At 89 years of age, he's the man the younger generations of Bakersfield Sound-rooted artists are turning to for mentoring and for...
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