John Wooley

[dropcap]Thirty[/dropcap] years ago, give or take a few months, a new double-record album appeared on the shelves of Oklahoma music stores. Featuring a trippy line-drawing...

[dropcap]According[/dropcap] to Dr. Tommy Poole, noted saxophonist and former director of jazz studies at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, a new NSU Jazz’Tet disc called...

[dropcap]In[/dropcap] her years as a leading light on the Tulsa music scene, vocalist and songwriter Cindy Cain has never called attention to the fact that...

[dropcap]On[/dropcap] May 18, the Chester Gould-Dick Tracy Museum Facebook page shared the image of a telegram that had been sent to Chester Gould, Tracy’s creator,...

[dropcap]Exactly[/dropcap] one year ago, this space was devoted to a report on veteran Tulsa-based singer-songwriter Don White, who, after decades of performing, touring, recording and...

I thought I was using myths to write a story. Turned out that I used a story to write a myth. – S.E. Hinton, from her...

In the course of her job as an accounting analyst at a Tulsa-area oil and gas company, it’s very unlikely that Shelly Reynolds comes in...

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 Teresa...

If you grew up around Tulsa anytime from the mid-‘50s through the early part of the ‘70s and you were at all aware of the...

One of the things I’ve learned in my decades of writing about Oklahoma’s great rock ‘n’ roll-era musicians is that they are, with a couple...