Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Songs of Bakersfield

By M. Rondin de Fromage
Jake directs me to this simply wonderful old clip of Buck Owens and the Buckaroos appearing on the Jimmy Dean Show in 1966:


Among the many delights of this video:
  1. The names of the various Buckaroos affixed to their various instruments
  2. The oil-derrick stagecraft
  3. Buck Owens, obviously, and the way his rhinestones cause black flares in the TV camera
  4. Don Rich's Fender Telecaster (I have a Telecaster, ergo, I am Don Rich!)
Buck Owens, the Buckaroos, and the Bakersfield Sound is all I would need on a desert island.

And the Dwight Yoakam - Buck Owens duet "Streets of Bakersfield" is a must for any collection (sorry about the poor audio quality but the video is just too good):


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