Posts tagged Oklahoma

By D.C. Bloom (Oct/Nov 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 5) Jimmy LaFave strolls into Threadgill’s looking like any one of the thousands of hipster dads in …

The Blue Door 2805 N. McKinley, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73106 405-524-0738 / www.bluedoorokc.com By Tiffany Walker (Aug/Sept 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 4) “Indian summer, Oklahoma sunset If …

JOHN FULLBRIGHT From the Ground Up Blue Dirt/Thirty Tigers How good is John Fullbright’s anxiously anticipated From the Ground Up? (Yes, anticipated — at least …

TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS Goodbye Normal Street Bossier City Records/Thirty Tigers For the Turnpike Troubadours’ third album, Goodbye Normal Street, the Evan Felker-led band of Oklahomans has cemented …

By Lynne Margolis (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) To hear John Fullbright sing is to know the sound of existential weariness. His songs sometimes …

BRACKEN HALE Bracken Hale www.brackenhale.com Austin, Texas, has never exactly been short on country acts of the retro persuasion — but it could stand a few …

By Andrew Dansby (March/April 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 2) Ray Wylie Hubbard’s story is that of two men in their 20s. One was young and …

RAY WYLIE HUBBARD The Grifter’s Hymnal Bordello Records Like the faded songbook pictured on the cover of The Grifter’s Hymnal, Ray Wylie Hubbard’s music has …

By Richard Skanse (March/April 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 2) If anyone was going to get an early jump on the festivities celebrating Woody Guthrie’s 100th …

By Chris Mosser (Nov/Dec 2011/Vol. 4 – Issue 6) Jason Boland is a survivor. The onetime “Bourbon Legend” is now six-years sober, and in recent …