If Bakersfield was in Texas

If Bakersfield was in Texas
By: Hank Ray

If Bakersfield was in Texas,
It would have blue, blue skies.

If Bakersfield was in Texas,
I could look into your eyes.

If Bakersfield was in Texas,
We could get on our best ponies and ride.

Texas long horns would stampede through Kern’s cotton fields


Buck Owens and Stevie Ray Von would be on the radio
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Kern River clouds would float by – over the Alamo


If Bakersfield was in Texas,
It would have blue, blue skies.

If Bakersfield was in Texas,
I could look into your eyes.

If Bakersfield was in Texas,
We could get on our best ponies and ride.

WORKIN ON THE ROVER, By Hank Ray

Bryan Harwood on TV

Bryan Harwood on the Rockwell Country Music Show, Will be on TV this Wensday Night!
Bryan will perform his new song "Good Friends" about his historic friends Buck Owens, Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. Filming was rapped up tonight at Trout's Historic Black Board Stage. Bryan has been performing in Bakersfield for several years.

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Buddy Allen Owen's Show at Bucks'

Photo by: Susan Lang
Buddy Allen Owens Played The Crystal Palace Last Night




Buddy Owens played some songs off his record last night as well as an awsome medley of his father Buck Owen's songs. Buddy's step father, Merle Haggard, had many of his songs played as well.




Buddy Allen Owens (Buck Owens's son. This photo was taken by BLT with Hank Ray



Kim Macabe was Buddies co-singer and she sand just as good as she did with Buck Owens years ago.




DATA FROM ANSWERS.COM :
"Singer, songwriter and guitarist Buddy Alan, born Alvis Alan Owens, is the son of country legends Buck and Bonnie Owens. While growing up in Bakersfield, California, he listened to country and rock & roll and formed his first rock band, the Chosen Few, at the age of 14. He switched to country music by his late teens and in 1965 moved to Arizona with his mother and her new husband Merle Haggard. That year he also sang for the first time at one of his father's Christmas concerts.

Buddy Alan's first single, a duet with Buck called "Let the World Keep on a Turnin'," was released by Capitol in 1968 and made it to the Top Ten. That same year, he also recorded his first solo single, "When I Turn Twenty One," written by stepfather Haggard; this one made it to the Top 60. By 1969, Alan had spent a summer touring with the Buck Owens Show and was working at a country music nightclub. That year he released two more singles and also recorded his first album, Wild, Free and Twenty One. He then joined his father's All American Show and continued touring the country. His popularity grew, and he starred in his own shows and made regular appearances as a soloist and musician on Hee Haw for the next seven years. Alan again made it to the charts in 1970 with the single "Santo Domingo." In late 1970, he and Buckaroo lead guitarist Don Rich recorded the popular "Cowboy Convention," and Alan was named Most Promising Male Artist by the ACM. From 1971-1975, Alan continued to release modestly successful singles. Alan was signed to Capitol Records for eight years, but despite his initial promise as a performer, he never made it to the big time. Alan left the music business in 1978 to attend college in Arizona. He then went back to radio as Buddy Alan Owens and became the music director at two local stations in Tempe, Arizona. He was voted Billboard's Music Director of the Year four years running during the late '80s and early '90s. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Music Guide"

BAKERSFIELD

BAKERSFIELD
By: Mike Ness, Social Distortion.

Take me down that line.
Iv’e got a heavy load
I can’t seem to make it on my own
Turn the lights down low
I can’t seem to get you
Get you out of head
Stranded here in Bakersfield,
You seem so close yet far away
Stranded here in Bakersfield,
You’re a million miles away.

I feel the heat comminn down.
Can’t make it through this day.
I can’t hardly fake it
I can’t fce this dayaWas it
something that I said?
Something that I didn’t do?
18 hours more till can be with you.
Stranded here in Bakersfield,
You seem so far away
Stranded here in Bakersfield,
You’re a million miles away.
Will you come be with me in Bakersfield
I am a million years away.

Talking part:
I walked out of that lonely truck stip with my head down, How the fuck did I get into this mess. What would Buck Owens have done? He would have gone home and grabbed that old guitar and wrote a love song, Not just any love song, The one that would make a grown man brake down and cry.

Stranded here in Bakersfield,
You seem so far away
Stranded here in Bakersfield,
You’re a million miles away.
Will you come be with me in Bakersfield
I am a million years away.

BUCK SHOT FOR BRIAN

BENEFIT AT FISHLIPS

Buck Owens joins Texas Country Hall of Fame

"Buck Owens, Mickey Newbury, The Whites join Texas Country Hall of Fame
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 – Buck Owens, Mickey Newbury and The Whites will join the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame in an induction ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 16 in Carthage, Texas.

Ralph Emery will serve as special guest emcee. Other inductees that evening will be legendary country star Buck Owens and influential singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury. In addition to tributes to each honoree, The Whites will perform some of their own country and bluegrass music." (CST)