John Wooley

Out of the plethora of show-biz memorabilia displayed inside Jim Halsey’s seven-room office suite, the Tulsa-based country-music impresario has plucked, on this day, a retro-looking...

It’s a cliche, I guess – the idea that any artists who choose to go where their art takes them are, as a part of...

John Wooley is a contributing editor for Oklahoma Magazine and regularly writes on music and its Oklahoma roots. Today, in the wake of Tom Petty’s...

Although I’m well into my fourth decade of writing about music, especially Oklahoma’s music, I’m reminded regularly how much more I have to learn. My...

You might know Bartlesville’s Becky Hobbs as a country star, with such hits as “Jones on the Jukebox” and “Hottest ‘Ex’ in Texas” to her...

My hometown of Chelsea, with a population that’s fluctuated between 1,500 and 2,500 for most of its existence, is one of those little Oklahoma places...

[dropcap]The[/dropcap] way Grammy-winning drummer David Teegarden tells it, he was driving down Tulsa’s Third Street one day, toward the building that was to be the...

[dropcap]If[/dropcap] he and his longtime musical partner Joey Harlan had just gotten a good break or two, had been at the right place at the...

“And the class of ’57 had its dreams./We all thought we’d change the world with our great work and deeds./Or maybe we just thought the...

[dropcap]It[/dropcap]’s been 27 years since I first wrote about Oklahoma’s Tim Rushlow, who was then the lead singer for a spirited young group called Little...