-
John Wooley
Posts
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...
A ‘Playboy’ Prescription
On Jan. 16, 1965, a jangly little number called “This Diamond Ring” found its way onto Billboard magazine’s Hot 100. A few weeks later, it...
Getting to Know a Monster
As I’ve written before in this space, I’m a monster kid, one of that legion of youngsters – mostly boys – who grew up in...
‘Nice People for Friends’
For some years, at precisely 8:30 a.m., Claremore’s Ray Bingham has gotten a phone call from veteran country-music star Leroy Van Dyke, known for classic...
‘A Black Hole… in a Good Way’
It happened in the early ’90s in an Oklahoma music store. John Cooper of the Red Dirt Rangers was chatting with the proprietor when the...
