John Wooley

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...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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,...

[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...