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Fast Computers: His Wails of Ecstasy Turned Into Screams of Terror (Bakersfield to San Diego, CA)

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2008-07-04 00:30:27 by Fast Computers in local Cut
...Bakersfield is that it sucks. Not the people, not the Silverfox, not Gary & Courtnie (re day2 blog), just Bakersfield. Its hot, its ugly, its in the middle of nowhere by a maximum security prison and I dont think any man or woman dead or alive would disagree. Except maybe Buck Owens. The late Mr. Owens loved him some Bakersfield and he built...
 
Tags: bakersfield, maximum security prison, crystal palace, owens loved, buck owens, musicians, day2 blog, woman dead, people
 
 
 
 
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Animal Farm: Got GILF? (Eureka-Bakersfield, CA)

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2008-03-25 23:31:29 by Animal Farm in local Cut
...Bakersfield, which has been probably the most interesting stop on this tour. We showed up to the venue to find a Jehovahs Witness convention in the same building. Now I know that Jehovahs Witnesses might not be the biggest hip-hop fans in the world, but they didnt need to call the police when they found out we were having a show. It worked...
 
Tags: animal farm, animal farm album, hanif wondir, clam juice, dance street performance, south lake tahoe, couple fanny packs, witnesses, jehovahs witnesses
 
 
 
 
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Sonny Langley: "From Bakersfield to You"

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2008-11-22 22:02:00 by Carl Abernathy in Cahl's Juke Joint: A rock, blues and jazz blog
...Bakersfield to You," in the mecca of West Coast country hipness, but his rendition of The Louvin Brothers' "Gonna Shake Hands With My Mother Over There" sounds as if it comes straight out of the Smoky Mountains. Even his covers of Marty Robbins' "To Be in Love With Her" and "Mr. Shorty" remind me of the tunes I heard in my grandmother's north...
 
Tags: langley, sonny langley, voice, classic country voice, modern country singers, bakersfield, george jones, time, merle haggard
 
 
 
 
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Merle Haggard - Don't Sing Him Back Home Just Yet...

2008-11-10 05:35:11 by anna log of MOG in MOG - Editor's Picks
 
...Bakersfield, Calif., hospital after undergoing surgery Monday (Nov. 3) to remove a cancerous growth from his right lung. In August, the 71-year-old Country Music Hall of Fame member told The Californian newspaper in Bakersfield that the growth was discovered in May. He said the tumor was not malignant and that he had no plans to have it...
 
Tags: haggard, merle, sweet merle haggard, merle haggard, bakersfield, bakersfield sound, hag, music, perform hag
 
 
 
 
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The road report: March tour, 2008

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2008-04-13 02:01:00 by Andrew Durkin... in Jazz: The Music of Unemployment
...Bakersfield One of the other challenges this go-round was when one of my guys -- let's call him "Slick" -- nearly disappeared into the wilds of Bakersfield, lured by the siren song of two of the city's native daughters. It made for a little bit of a stressful afternoon the next day, when he was a no-show as we were trying to leave town with...
 
Tags: tour, dance-music cliche, music, time, kid named josh, fairly time-intensive task, kid, tour blog posts, music passionately
 
 
 
 
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The road report: March tour, 2008

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2008-04-13 02:01:00 by Andrew Durkin... in Jazz: The Music of Unemployment
...Bakersfield One of the other challenges this go-round was when one of my guys -- let's call him "Slick" -- nearly disappeared into the wilds of Bakersfield, lured by the siren song of two of the city's native daughters. It made for a little bit of a stressful afternoon the next day, when he was a no-show as we were trying to leave town with...
 
Tags: tour, dance-music cliche, music, time, kid named josh, fairly time-intensive task, kid, tour blog posts, music passionately
 
 
 
 
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Tour tales no. 1: The wages of profanity and political commentary

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2008-09-12 02:00:00 by Andrew Durkin... in Jazz: The Music of Unemployment
...Bakersfield, they came to every show, talked us up to all their friends, bought all our records and swag, and even filmed many of our performances. (They would always follow up by sending me carefully annotated DVDs adorned with artwork of their own devising Actually, for a few of our early Bakersfield shows, the Ws comprised nearly half of...
 
Tags: tour, sort, situation sort, jazz, bakersfield jazz festival, bakersfield, support offensive music, music, pretty
 
 
 
 
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The North/South Chamber Orchestra performs works by four generations of composers on April 20 at 3 PM

2008-03-28 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Bakersfield College from 1971 until his retirement in 1996. He is now in charge of the New Directions Concert Series sponsored by the Bakersfield Symphony. Cast in three contrasting movements the music of Remembrances brings to mind both serious and playful memories eventually subsiding in the quietness of forgetfulness The Puerto Rican...
 
Tags: composers, york resident richard, york, concert season, concert, composers award, music, contemporary music, york city resident
 
 
 
 
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Incident at Umbria

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2008-04-01 23:14:00 by Andrew Durkin... in Jazz: The Music of Unemployment
 
...Bakersfield) of the piece with which we opened our shows last week. For handy reference, here are the lyrics in question I do not speak Italian so someone who speaks English can tell all these assholes with cameras to turn them fucking off right now no more photographs, including that red light right there If we see any more lights I...
 
Tags: umbria, gary reserve, reserve, umbria exemplifies, red light, piece, jarrett, full-on tour post, matt