-
John Wooley
Posts
Pain is Part of the Process
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...
Tom Petty’s Tulsa Connection
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...
Out of a Mercedes Trunk and Deep Freeze
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...
Life After Girl Bands
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...
A Shooting Star
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...
“Our Own Little Studio Row”
[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...
Regaining His Groove
[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...
Reunion Reflections
“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...
From Country to Crooning
[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...
Last Man in the Band
[dropcap]One[/dropcap] of the nicest things about working with author Steve Todoroff on his upcoming biography of Leon Russell, Longhair Music, is that it has given...
