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A Jim-Dandy Comic Con

First, thanks to a checkered literary career that includes work as a comic-book scriptwriter, I was a guest at the inaugural Pryor Creek Comic Convention,...

Trucking in Memorabilia

Out of the plethora of show-biz memorabilia displayed inside Jim Halsey’s seven-room office suite, the Tulsa-based country-music impresario has plucked, on this day, a retro-looking...

Pain is Part of the Process

It’s a cliche, I guess – the idea that any artists who choose to go where their art takes them are, as a part of...

Tom Petty’s Tulsa Connection

John Wooley is a contributing editor for Oklahoma Magazine and regularly writes on music and its Oklahoma roots. Today, in the wake of Tom Petty’s...

Out of a Mercedes Trunk and Deep Freeze

Although I’m well into my fourth decade of writing about music, especially Oklahoma’s music, I’m reminded regularly how much more I have to learn. My...

Life After Girl Bands

You might know Bartlesville’s Becky Hobbs as a country star, with such hits as “Jones on the Jukebox” and “Hottest ‘Ex’ in Texas” to her...

A Shooting Star

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...

“Our Own Little Studio Row”

[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...

Regaining His Groove

[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...

Reunion Reflections

“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...