Stubble the Lords Hunter steals N.L. question about country music - By N.L. Belardes
Robert Price A.K.A. Stubble the Lords Hunter recently asked the same questions I’ve been asking for a few months now. Is there a new Bakersfield Sound? Is there local country music in Bakersfield besides the Crystal Palace? Or has Bakersfield country music all dwindled away and moved from here in the Old Nashville West to LA, the New Nashville West? Of course Buck is still around. So are some of his buddies like Red Simpson... And there’s this whole rockabilly, psychobilly, alt country thing going on with Fat Kat and the Vonzippers, the Dusk Devils, those creepy Night Crawlers who got plugged by Tiger Army (who also plugged captain Buck. I keep telling you rocksters to take advantage of the fact that those outside of Bakersfield respect the musical roots here). Oh, and there’s Norfolk, and others I'm finding out.
Jenny Angel of the Dusk Devils even came to my defense by pointing out to the Lords Hunter that I had asked the question before he did: "n.l. belardes has a whole story on the topic you suggest at this blog rut thur on yur bakersfield.com site." Funny. I even wrote an email to Jennifer Baldwin of the Bakersfield Californian and mentioned putting my piece on the Bakersfield.com homepage. That was the same week Buck got off his big crystal horse and uncovered those cool statues at the Palace. Stubble, did you rip me off?? Jennifer? Ah, it doesn’t matter. The question got asked, and it’s an important one. Not that I’m being nice to Robert Price. I half expect he’ll write a few scathing remarks about my Lords of Bakersfield novel. All in good fun. He'll probably say, "It reads like a Nancy Drew schloppy sleuth story..." It’s like professor Oliver Rink once told me: “Writers all hang their asses out in the wind for others to criticize.” So what can you do about that? Just keep writing I say…
Anyway, Matt Munoz of Mento Buru and I are still plotting our local country music hunt. We’re going to get out our Sherlock Holmes and Watson Halloween garb and pick the scene with a fine toothed comb. We’re going to talk to old timers, young timers, rockabilly hipsters, and whomever we can find to seek the answers that Stubble the Lords Hunter is also asking…
Stay tuned…
Jenny Angel of the Dusk Devils even came to my defense by pointing out to the Lords Hunter that I had asked the question before he did: "n.l. belardes has a whole story on the topic you suggest at this blog rut thur on yur bakersfield.com site." Funny. I even wrote an email to Jennifer Baldwin of the Bakersfield Californian and mentioned putting my piece on the Bakersfield.com homepage. That was the same week Buck got off his big crystal horse and uncovered those cool statues at the Palace. Stubble, did you rip me off?? Jennifer? Ah, it doesn’t matter. The question got asked, and it’s an important one. Not that I’m being nice to Robert Price. I half expect he’ll write a few scathing remarks about my Lords of Bakersfield novel. All in good fun. He'll probably say, "It reads like a Nancy Drew schloppy sleuth story..." It’s like professor Oliver Rink once told me: “Writers all hang their asses out in the wind for others to criticize.” So what can you do about that? Just keep writing I say…
Anyway, Matt Munoz of Mento Buru and I are still plotting our local country music hunt. We’re going to get out our Sherlock Holmes and Watson Halloween garb and pick the scene with a fine toothed comb. We’re going to talk to old timers, young timers, rockabilly hipsters, and whomever we can find to seek the answers that Stubble the Lords Hunter is also asking…
Stay tuned…
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