John Wooley

Firsts are, to put it mildly, tricky things. It’s like the old saw about being the fastest gun in the West: There’s always somebody faster....

The trouble with studying something that’s still alive is that it can keep eluding you. This applies to my own particular quest to pin down...

Sam Harris may be the ultimate show-biz hyphenate.  It’s hard to believe that some 37 years have passed since the Sand Springs native brought down...

Tulsa drummer and songwriter Chuck Blackwell began etching his name into pop culture history some 60 years ago, as one of the original guys who...

Over the years, I’ve been fortunate enough to have written or co-written several books about Oklahoma’s pop culture history.  Every time I’ve done one, I’ve...

What does the engaging new autobiography of top rock music record producer Ted Templeman, famed for his work with the likes of Van Halen, the...

I’ve long thought that one of the secrets of life is always looking forward to something. For the past several years, one of the things...

FiveMoments that Changed Musical History There’s a fundamental question about whether Oklahoma is musically different from any other state. Maybe people in Springfield, Missouri, or...

For Tulsa rock ’n’ rollers, the mid-’70s were nothing less than pure gold. Hometown hero Leon Russell was back and firing off projects and ideas...

I first met Ana Berry a little more than two decades ago, when my filmmaking partner Leo Evans and I cast our feature Café Purgatory. She...