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John Wooley
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Leon’s Legacy
[dropcap]Exiting[/dropcap] the Cain’s Ballroom stage after he and a stellar ad hoc band had romped joyously through the old chestnut “Trouble in Mind,” Rodney Lay...
Background Man
[dropcap]Back[/dropcap] in the late ’60s, my friend Steve Olim and I made a couple of movies, using ourselves and some of our fellow Oklahoma State...
Can’t Make It to the Manger
[dropcap]Back[/dropcap] in the early part of this century, I was amazed and delighted when my old friend Steve Ripley, the internationally known, Oklahoma-based music figure,...
Small Town Songs
[dropcap]To[/dropcap] many musicians and music lovers, New Orleans and Kansas City mean jazz, while Memphis will forever be the home of the blues. Depending upon...
Old School Halloween
[dropcap]The[/dropcap] older you become, the more you get used to things around you fading into other things. So one day you turn on the oldies...
Morphing With the Times
[dropcap]To[/dropcap] set things up, let’s take a time trip back to the late ’70s-early ’80s, when the rockin’ sounds of several Tulsa acts reverberated well...
Hurricane Mason
[dropcap]In[/dropcap] a song of his called “Sweet Euphoria,” Oklahoma-based guitarist and vocalist Matt Mason sings of being “addicted to cold steel blades” and then “complaining...
In Town To-Night
[dropcap]For[/dropcap] many years now, whenever I’ve gotten the itch to add to my collection of autographed baseball and football cards, I’ve usually wound up at...
Charley Gardner’s Angels
[dropcap]Here[/dropcap] are a couple of things you should know about Chuck Gardner’s Charley’s Angels show, set for Sunday, June 5 at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall...
After The Voice
[dropcap]For[/dropcap] a vocal duet that went on to entertain millions on NBC’s The Voice, Alaska Holloway and Madi Metcalf sure got off to a rocky...