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Pitchlynn’s Poems, Reimagined

The new CD Poems to Songs: Hatchootucknee (Snapping Turtle) can be seen, at least in part, as a family affair – that is, if you...

Red Dirt Developments

More than 30 years after it first began rising out of the Oklahoma clay, in and around a funky, old two-story farmhouse outside of Stillwater,...

Women of Song

Those of you who regularly visit this space know that I’ve written a great deal about that elusive musical genre known as the classic Tulsa...

An Auditory Snapshot

We’ve all seen them, in books or museums or maybe in someone’s collection: snapshots from bygone times, capturing forever via an amateur’s lens something of...

Going to (the) Church

It took more than half a decade to restore and renovate Tulsa’s Church Studio. And while that may sound like a long time, five years...

Rooted in the Past

For years now, I’ve been hearing that the CD is an obsolete way of delivering music, that its time has come and gone, that new...

Selling Memories

Ask the veteran Tulsa broadcaster Mel Myers what he’s doing in his recently acquired gig as the morning man for radio station KBEZ (92.9 FM),...

No Talk Back

Before you dive into Jenks resident Joe Glyda’s new oversized hardcover publication, WWII Aviation Artwork and the Stories Behind These Beautiful Birds, take a look...

The Curious Case of CJ Garton

In the last generation or so, the recording part of the country-music business changed dramatically. Back in the ’90s, when Oklahoma stars like Garth Brooks,...

A Swinging Success

Shelby Eicher makes music.  The Sand Springs resident has been at it ever since he was a kid in Ohio, playing in his family’s square-dance...