Bridging the Great Divide Seminal Red Dirt band reunites for Stillwater show
By Laurie Barker James (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Before Jason Boland and the Stragglers, before Stoney LaRue and Brandon Jenkins, and before …
By Laurie Barker James (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Before Jason Boland and the Stragglers, before Stoney LaRue and Brandon Jenkins, and before …
By Richard Skanse (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) “This is going to keep me out of jail, isn’t it?” That was Cody Canada’s …
JASON BOLAND & THE STRAGGLERS Ranch Alto APEX Nashville/Proud Souls Ent/30 Tigers Springing out of Stillwater right around the same time as fellow Okie heavyweights …
STONEY LARUE Velvet Smith Entertainment Stoney LaRue arrived on the crest of the last decade’s Red Dirt music wave and found himself an icon after …
By Laurie Barker James (LSM July/Aug 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 4) To some, the Turnpike Troubadours seemed to come blazing out of nowhere to win …
By Rita Ballou (LSM July/Aug 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 4) Before this whole “Rita” blog thing happened, I had VERY limited “backstage” experience. Most of …
By Richard Skanse (LSM July/Aug 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 4) The heat was brutal — both outside and especially inside Gruene Hall — but that …
By Shilah Morrow (LSM May/June 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 3) So I’m on the phone with Skanse, talking about our plans this weekend, and it …
By Chris Mosser (LSM March/April 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 2) Parenthood, as any parent will tell you (and many single folks are sick of hearing), …
By Laurie Barker James (LSM Jan/Feb 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 1) It’s been three years, and maybe 100,000 miles, between Bleu Edmondson’s last studio release, …