John Wooley

User banner image
User avatar
  • John Wooley

Posts

An Undiscovered Gem

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...

Behind-The-Scenes Magic

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...

Forever the Boys of Summer

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...

A Notable Legacy

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...

The Tulsa Sound’s Eternal Inspiration

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...

Who’s the Bossa?

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...

‘Something Positive for the Cosmos’

While I don’t want to give anything away, I need to call attention to a bonus track on Stoney LaRue’s brand-new CD, Onward, that’s liable...

Pryor Obsessions

As a kid growing up in Locust Grove, Jimmie Tramel was obsessed by comic books. He can still recall individual issues – the way the...

Standing Through Tragedy

Ask most musicians about their latest discs and you’ll more than likely get responses along the lines of, “It’s by far the best thing I’ve...

Young-Adult Deja Vu in Tulsa

See if this sounds familiar: An author from Tulsa, going by her initials and last name, pens a wildly popular series of young-adult novels set...