What year was "Streets of Bakersfield" released?
 | Streets of Bakersfield was not only a #1 Grammy Awarding top song for
Buck Owens, but a defining song for the Bakersfield Sound genre. |
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Dr. Bruce L. Thiessen AKA Dr. BLT
My name is Dr. B.L.T. (Bruce L. Thiessen, Ph.D.), but you can call me Bruce or Dr. BLT. I'm a singer/songwriter who writes, records, and produces his own music in his own storytelling style, but he also brings in other artists as performers, vocalists, and co-writers who offer their own creative interpretation of his unique style.My music credentials include: recently placing a song on the top 30 at #21 at mp3000.net with a song that has become known as The Black Santa Song; getting national airplay; and having a cameo on an MTV-award-nominated music video by Cake for a song called Short Skirt/Long Jacket.
In addition to being a singer/songwiter, I have a day job. I am a clinical/forensic psychologist, a university instructor. I was born and raised in Canada, but I am a dual citizen, a long-time resident of California, and a current resident of Bakersfield.
For ten years, I've been write articles that integrate psychological principles and spiritual insights for Vocations and Prayer magazine. For nearly as long, I've been writing an advice column, writing interview/profile pieces, and doing CD reviews for the e-zine, Phantom Tollbooth: http://www.tollbooth.org
I am the "Fan in Black," who wrote and released an entire CD featuring original songs about the life and music of Johnny Cash. If you've visited Russo's at the Marketplace recently, you'll also notice that I've released several other CDs, including Confessions of a Buckaholic, a Buck Owens tribute CD featuring original songs about the life and music of Buck Owens.
I listen to, write, and record modern rock, alt rock, retro rock, classic rock, country, alt country and many more styles of music. I write and record a new song almost every day. What can I say? Music rocks!
PS: "I am always looking for vocaiist and other musician to perform, and record my many many songs. So if you live in the Bakersfield area and would like a chance to record one of my songs please contact me".
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Bakersfield Sound Underground: What year was "Streets of Bakersfield" released?
The Next Buck.
Though I am not from Bakersfield. I feel like I am carrying on the tradition of Buck Owens attitude towards music.
Buck didn't worry about what Nashville was selling. He cared about his sound and fought to make sure people heard it.
That's all I'm doing. Making sure people hear my music.
No, I'm not from Bako. But Buck wasn't always from there either.
Am I the next Buck Owens? No.
No one ever will be.
I'm Jeffrey Michaels. "I ain't tryin' to be nobody. I just want a chance to be myself."(Homer Joy~Streets of Bakersfield.)
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You are carrying on the tradition well, and you are carrying the torch to a new generation. As the theme song for Bakersfield's Next Buck suggests, "...be yourself, don't try to be anybody else."
You are being yourself. And, from what I've observed, and what I've heard of your music, you are being yourself with class, with style, and with distinction. At the same time, you are standing on the shoulders of the giants of days of yore. You can't lose, and I am proud to have you here in the underground.
As for the talent contest, you don't have to look or sound like Buck, or to have Buck's history or experiences to be "Bakersfield's Next Buck." You don't have to be from Bakersfield either. It's about what musical influences you've allowed to shape your sound and what you are doing to make it your own. That sound like a pitch for the contest, but I really don't want you, or anybody else, for that matter, feel pressured to join.
Bakersfield's Next Buck is just for fun, and to get people involved in something that pays tribute to the past, while embracing the future. You will be a big success, and already are, with, or without the contest. I appreciate your comment, and I'm looking forward to posting my interview with you right here.
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