Buck Owens, Merle Haggard Speak / Sing of Bakersfield & Kern River

[limitnut]

that seems to me like the best tmes to live in ! this is a great video !!!

[CherokeeGeema]

Awesome video! I can relate to most of your posts. My sister-n-law worked at the Lucky Spot and the Blackboard, and I've hitched a ride on the back of a cotton sack.

[crpdst2003]

aha! remember being home with my youngest aunt babysitting us while mom, Dad,and my aunt and Uncle went to the Pumpkin Center Honkey Tonk.....always wanted to go with them and sit and listen...

[richtogo]

I was raised on the road working the crops, I went to 26 schools before I got out the sixth grade. I had a great life I didn't know there was any difference I thought everyone lived in cotton camp.

[all95621]

@richtogo My Lord, you might have been the one that was pickin cotton on the row next to me.

I went to just the same amount of schools. But life was good then, never locked our ole car's cause we all had the same ole beat up cars. Not afraid to stop on the side of the road and sleep where ever we could find a place to throw the mattress down and wake up at day lite. Cooked in a cast iron skillet on a fire uilld from sticks we could find. I was around Fresno & Bakersfield in 1940's.Were U 2

[all95621]

@all95621

Hey richtogo, do a google search on the "History of Weed Patch"

You just might find us there somewhere. lol

[astranine]

Merle turned out to be on of the best song writers in the business.

[MrLcobb]

The BEST of the BEST.

Buck & The Hag.

All of Haggard's songs is a story of my life. I Lived in Oklahoma until 1939. Then daddy headed for the state of GOLD. Yeah Sure.!!!! We lived all around Bakersfield.

In those days we never locked our doors. But maybe that was because there was nothing worth taking. lol

[melissatot]

How could I fail to like it; I made it with colleague Paula Mazur!

Melissa T.