A few photos from the December 24 show

We had a good time on December 24th and our friend Wyro joined us in the studio with his cameras. He got a few shots of us in action. I guess it must have been cool in there since Mike had his hat on and I put on my down jacket. It was a clear and cold Christmas Eve in Point Reyes. Thanks for checking out the blog – do you have a request for us to play? Let us know!

Download for a cause

On our December 24 show we played the song Some Day by Jones Family Fortune. Wanted to let folks know if they enjoyed that song that they can download it from CD Baby or iTunes for .99 cents and continue to enjoy it while helping to raise funds to assist the families of the four slain police officers from Tacoma, WA. There are two versions for download. One is the full band electric version of the song and the second is an acoustic version of the same song. Ian Jones was a long time friend of Ron Owens, one of the four officers slain on November 29th, 2009. It was great to also be able to play Dr. BLT’s Homeless Christmas medley, which was recorded to raise funds for a homeless shelter in Bakersfield and is available through Dr. BLT’s blog.

Rosie Flores interview

For your listening pleasure.  Enjoy!

Rose Flores

Christmas Eve playlist

Thanks everyone for tuning in on Christmas Eve. We good time with friends and family who followed us from dinner at The Farm House restaurant in Olema over to Studio A at KWMR. We had a good time playing some music and broadcasting the interview we conducted with Rosie Flores the previous week. We’ll have the interview with Rosie up for download or to stream as soon as we remember how to edit it out of the show.

We also were privileged to be the first to air the Dr. BLT penned soon to be classic, Homeless Christmas Medley.

HOMELESS CHRISTMAS MEDLEY aka Homeless at Christmas/Angels words and music by Dr BLT © 2009
Patricia Mikel: lead vocals, backup vocals
Mark Yeary: keyboard
Mark McKinney: bass, drums, vocal harmonies
Walter Stormont: ending choruses vocals
Dave Howe: ending choruses vocals
Dr BLT: ending choruses vocals
produced by Mark Yeary
engineered by Reggie Langendorfer, Bakersfield Music and Recording Studios

See y’all next year on January 7 when Amanda and I will play our independently chosen top 10 songs we’ve played over the past year.

Artist	Cut	Album	Label
Tim Hus	Bakersfield Music	Bushpilot Buckaroo	Stony Plain Records
Merle Haggard	White Christmas	Hag, The Best of Merle Haggard	Monument
Rev Horton Heat	Santa Looked a lot Like Daddy	We Three Kings	Yep Roc
Elvis Presley	Merry Christmas Baby	The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll	Sony
Los Straitjackets	Deck the Halls	Yuletide Beat	Yep Roc
Rosie Flores	This Cat’s in the Doghouse	girl of the century	Bloodshot
Rosie Flores	Girl Haggard	Once More with Feeling	HIGHTONE
Red Meat	I’m No Stranger	13	Ranchero Records
Wanda Jackson	I Gotta Know	Wanda Rocks	Bear Family Records
Dave Howe	First Loser	A Face for Radio	Dave Howe Music
Jones Family Fortune	Someday	Someday	Thin Silver Records
Rosie Flores and Wanda Jackson	Woman Walk Out the Door	Heart Trouble	CMH Records
Gary Stewart	Single Again	The Essential Gary Stewart	BMG Entertainment
Johnny Cash	Silent Night	Hear Something Country Christmas	BMG Entertainment
Dr. BLT	Homeless Christmas Medley	Dr. BLT Self Produced	Self Produced
Rev Horton Heat	Frosty the Snowman	We Three Kings	Yep Roc
Elvis Presley	Blue Christmas	Elvis Christmas	Sony
Kitty Wells	Jingle Bells	Christmas with Kitty Wells	San Juan Music Group

Playlist 12-10-09

Another fun show in the bank.  Both Amanda and I had recently watched the Townes Van Zandt documentary Be Here To Love Me, so we played a TVZ set that included Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson and Steve Earle.  The influence of Townes on Steve Earle was so great, Steve named his son Justin Townes Earl.  The documentary was really good and I’d recommend it to anyone interested in musical figures.

Thanks to all who tuned in.

Tim Hus	Bakersfield Music	Bushpilot Buckaroo	Stony Plain Records
Bob Wills	Brain Cloudy Blues	The Essential Bob Wills	Capitol
Merle Haggard	White Line Fever	Hag, The Best of Merle Haggard	Capitol
Gilbeau & Parsons	Your Gentle Way of Loving Me	Country & West Coast, the Birth of Country Rock	Ace
Gary Stewart	Roarin’	The Essential Gary Stewart	BMG Entertainment
Fat Kat and the Von Zippers	Darlin’ Cry for Me	That Bakersfield Sound	Fattkat Music
Buck Owens	Waiting in Your Welfare Line	21 # Hits	Rhino Records
Monsters of Folk	Ahead of the Curve	Monsters of Folk	Shangrila Records
Tom Russell	Tulare Dust	Tulare Dust, a songwriters tribute to merle haggard	Hightone Records
Lucinda Williams	You Don’t Have Very Far to Go	Tulare Dust, a songwriters tribute to merle haggard	Hightone Records
Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson	Pancho & Lefty	Pancho & Lefty	Sony
Steve Earle	Lungs	Townes	New West
Townes Van Zandt	Rake	Be Here to Love Me	Fat Possum Records
Townes Van Zandt	Marie	Be Here to Love Me	Fat Possum Records
Gary Stewart	Drinkin’ Thing	The Essential Gary Stewart	BMG Entertainment
The Spencers	King and Queen of Fools	Bakersfield Rebels	Ace
Eddy Arnold	Cattle Call	The Golden Country & Western Hits	RCA
Wanda Jackson	Rockabilly Fever	Heart Trouble	CMH Records
77 El Deora	Is This Going to Hurt	Sirens	Western Independent Recordings
Billy Joe Shaver	Ramblin’ Fever	Tulare Dust, a songwriters tribute to merle haggard	Hightone
Dr. BLT	It Never Snows on the Streets of Bakersfield	Dr. BLT Self Produced	Self Produced
Red Meat	Marie	13	Ranchero Records
Red Meat	Baby Beats Me the Best	13	Ranchero Records
Tom Phillips & The Men of Constant Sorrow	Hit Every Honkey Tonk In Town	Downtown Cowboy	Independent
Dwight Yoakam	Bury Me	Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.	Warner Brothers

Thanksgiving day playlist

What a fun show our Thanksgiving day show was.  We didn’t have a theme lined up before the show but decided right before the show to play mini-sets of artists that worked out quite well.

Echoing Amanda’s sentiments about being thankful for local community radio, I’m also thankful for local friends who fed me an outstanding turkey dinner prior to the show, another friend who I went on a great mountain bike ride (aptly named the Appetite Seminar) with in the morning, and my family who visited earlier in the week.  We are also thankful to Dr. BLT for spreading the Bakersfield & Beyond message and sending us his music to play.

So, here’s the playlist and a couple of youtube clips of some fun music.

I can’t embed this Wynn Stewart clip so you’ll have to click on the link to view it.

I really like the soulful trumpet in the background on this Tom Russell song.

And I thought these were interesting in searching for Clarence White.

Gene Parsons talking about the string bender and Clarence White.

Artist	Cut	Album	Label
Tim Hus	Bakersfield Music	Bushpilot Buckaroo	Stony Plain Records
The Derailers	It’s Never Too Late for a Party	Soldiers of Love	Palo Duro
The Derailers	Me, Myself and I	Full Western Dress	Sire Records
Wynn Stewart	Money Talks	The Songs of Wynn Stewart	Capital
Wynn Stewart	You Took Her Off My Hands	The Songs of Wynn Stewart	Capital
Wynn Stewart	Sha Marie	The Songs of Wynn Stewart	Capital
Tom Russell	Out in California	The Rose of the San Joaquin	Hightone Records
Tom Russell	Crosses of San Carlos	Blood and Candle Smoke	Shout Factory
Iris DeMent	Keep Me God	The Way I Should	Warner Brothers
Iris DeMent	He Reached Down	Lifeline	Flariella Records
Iris DeMent	Big City	Tulare Dust: A Songwriter’s Tribute to Merle Haggard	Hightone Records
Clarence White	Buckaroo	Tuff & Stringy/Sessions 1966-68	Bakersfield International
Clarence White	Adam & Eve	Tuff & Stringy/Sessions 1966-68	Bakersfield International
Merle Haggard	Mama Tried	Okee From Muskogee	Capitol
Merle Haggard	No Hard Times	Okee From Muskogee	Capitol
Merle Haggard	Silver Wings	Okee From Muskogee	Capitol
Rosie Flores & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts	Little Bells	Girl of the Century	Bloodshot Records
Wanda Jackson	Woman Walk Out the Door	Heart Trouble	CMH Records
Dwight Yoakam	My Heart Skips A Beat	Dwight Sings Buck	New West
Dwight Yoakam	Honky Tonk Man	Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.	Warner Brothers
Dwight Yoakam	Act Naturally	Dwight Sings Buck	New West
Dave Alvin	Surfer Girl	West of the West	Yep Roc
Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women	California’s Burning	Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women	Yep Roc
Dr. BLT	Everything For Granted	Dr. BLT Self Produced	Self Produced
Buckaroo Bonet	Mystery Train	It’s Party Time	Self Produced

Thankful for local community radio!

What are you thankful for? There is much to be thankful for including the fact that there are still independent locally operated community radio stations like KWMR. The station where we broadcast from is a special place in our community. Over 90 volunteer programmers bring listeners music, talk and news programs and are a hub for the community. Bakersfield and Beyond will be on live tomorrow night – Thanksgiving and will bring you some great tunes over the airwaves. So kick back, tune your dials to 90.5 or 89.9 FM or stream us on the world wide web at www.kwmr.org. Ride that L Tryptophan high from your tasty meal while listening to some Bakersfield (or thus influenced) tunes. And learn the truth behind “Act Naturally”. Happy Thanksgiving!

Interview with Exene Cervenka

If the above player doesn’t work, you can download the interview at the link below.

Exene Interview

Here is the Exene Cervenka interview!

Recap of 11-12 show and playlist

Almost forgot to post this to the blog.  Another fun show in the bag.  We aired our interview with Exene Cervenka and played a cut off her new solo album, Somewhere Gone.  We also played some Knitters tunes that featured her voice.  I also aired the interview last week when I covered Shorty’s Bunkhouse on KWMR since her San Francisco concert was on Nov. 8 and the station had a pair of tickets for that show.  Ty, the instigator who got Amanda and I on the Bakersfield Sound track, called in to snag the tickets.  Ty also called in to our show to give us the low-down on what he said was a great show.  He also said the opening act, Zander Schloss, was a great surprise.  Ty brought over a disc of Zander Schloss to my shop yesterday – great stuff that we’ll have to give a play on an upcoming show.

Amanda has the Exene interview downloaded and we’ll post it here soon so folks can check it out.

Artist	Cut	Album	Label
Tim Hus	Bakersfield Music	Bushpilot Buckaroo	Stony Plain Records
Tommy Collins	Whatcha Gonna Do Now	The Best of Tommy Collins	K-Tel
Tommy Collins	You Gotta Have a License	Country’s Greatest Hits of the 50s	Gusto
Tommy Collins	If You Can’t Bite, Don’t Growl	100 Funny Favorites	K-Tel
Dwight Yoakam	Always Late With Your Kisses	Live From Austin TX	New West Records
Iris DeMent	Mom & Dad’s Waltz	My Life	Warner Brothers
Exene Cervenka	Somewhere Gone	Somewhere Gone	Bloodshot
The Knitters	Poor Old Heartsick Me	Poor Little Critter on the Road	Slash Records
The Knitters	In This House That I Call Home	The Modern Sounds of The Knitters	Zoe Records
Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women	Weight of the World	Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women	Yep Roc
Ferlin Husky	Dear John	Greatest Hits of Ferlin Husky	Gusto
Ferlin Husky	Greatest Hits of Ferlin Husky	Greatest Hits of Ferlin Husky	Gusto
Cindy Lee Berryhill	Cry Me A Jordan	Beloved Stranger	Populuxe Records
Jeffrey Michaels	Streets of Bakersfield	No Fast Lanes on a Country Road	Ruffneck Records
Buck Owens	Loves Gonna Live Here	21 # Hits	Rhino Records
Uncle Tupelo	Sin City	No Depression	Columbia Legacy
Red Meat	Queen of King City	We Never Close	Ranchero Records
Wanda Jackson	Long Tall Sally	Wanda Rocks	Bear Family Records

Exene Cervenka Interview Thursday, November 12

This Thursday we are back after a two-week hiatus. We will air the Exene Cervenka interview that we pre-recorded about a week ago. One of the instigators for our show, Ty, attended the concert in San Francisco and will be reporting back on the air. We have some great music lined up for Thursday as well. As fall descends on West Marin we realize that it was almost one year ago that we began the Bakersfield Music adventure! We look forward to having you join us this week. Please let us know if you have any requests.