Tulsa’s Rock Royalty Rules
Anyone who’s regularly visited this column knows I especially enjoy sharing stories about projects that put veteran Oklahoma musicians in the spotlight. The history...
Can’t Make It to the Manger
Back in the early part of this century, I was amazed and delighted when my old friend Steve Ripley, the internationally known, Oklahoma-based music...
The Heart Sings
Sure, he’d already made plenty of it, giving us thousands of live performances, scores of original songs, and a good number of albums to...
Full Circle
If you’re an active writer and/or reader from this part of the world, you probably have an idea of how much we all owe...
‘A Black Hole… in a Good Way’
It happened in the early ’90s in an Oklahoma music store. John Cooper of the Red Dirt Rangers was chatting with the proprietor when...
Explosive Sounds
Thirty years ago, give or take a few months, a new double-record album appeared on the shelves of Oklahoma music stores. Featuring a trippy...
