“I’ll Have Somebody Else,” Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys “Texas Playboy Beat,” Playboys 2 “You Only Call Me up When You’re Drunk,” Betty Rogers (for AP MCQUIDDY and the GLASS LIFTERS) “Take Me Back to Tulsa,” Jana Jae (for SANDY and EMILY) “Gimme My… Read More »25 JANUARY 2020
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ANDY OATMAN “Way Down in Texas,” Bob Wills “Dream A Little Dream of Me,” Rod Moag w/Leon Rausch, Rosie Flores, and Bobby Koefer (for BOBBY & JUDY KOEFER) “Horses, Women & Wine,” Doye O’Dell (for BETTYE & GARY and the… Read More »18 JANUARY 2020
SPOTLIGHTING OUTSIDE-THE-LINES SONGS “Betcha My Heart,” Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys “Somewhere South of San Antone,” Hot Texas Swing Band “Habits and Honky Tonks,” Curly Lewis (for CYNTHIA HACKATHORN and the GLASS LIFTERS) “Rodeo Blues,” Hot Club of Cowtown “Mama Don’t Like No Music,”… Read More »11 JANUARY 2020
My friend Jimmie Tramel, a fine writer and big-time comic-book fan, puts on a great comics-related event in what to some may seem an unlikely place: Pryor, Oklahoma. It may indeed be held in a small town, but, over the past few years, the Pryor Creek Comic Convention has become a favorite destination for pop-culture… Read More »Pryor Obsessions
SPOTLIGHTING ROY NEWMAN AND HIS BOYS “Steel Guitar Rag,” Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys “Bound to Look Like A Monkey,” Tom Morrell and the Time-Warp Tophands “I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink,” Suzy Bogguss (for AP MCQUIDDY and the GLASS LIFTERS) “How… Read More »4 JANUARY 2020
SPOTLIGHTING AL CLAUSER AND HIS OKLAHOMA OUTLAWS “White Heat,” Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (for JACK & CAROLE BENDER) “Please Don’t Leave Me,” Rod Moag & Dayna Wills (for BARBARA MARTIN) “Oklahoma Home Brew, ” Hank Thompson (for BETTYE & GARY and AP MCQUIDDY… Read More »28 DECEMBER 2019
THE HOLIDAY SPECIAL “Santa’s on His Way,” Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys “Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,” Tractors (for DALE MCHENRY) “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,” Metro Swing “A Cowboy’s Christmas Song,” Leon McAuliffe “I’ll be Home for Christmas,” Bob Wills’ Original Texas Playboys (for… Read More »21 DECEMBER 2019
SPOTLIGHTING ALVIN CROW AND THE PLEASANT VALLEY BOYS “Fan It,” Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (for ANGELENE RIPLEY WRIGHT) “Hitler Lives (If We Hurt Our Fellow Man), Rod Moag w/Elana James “Cozy Inn,” Leon McAuliff (for RUSTY MILLER and the GLASS LIFTERS) “Somebody’s Been… Read More »14 DECEMBER 2019
FEATURING JIMMIE REVARD AND HIS OKLAHOMA PLAYBOYS DEDICATED TO HIS GRANDNIECE CAT BURTON “Here’s That Man Again,” Bob Wills (for A. SCOTT ARIZONA) “The Day the Texas Playboys Came to Town,” Larry Mangum (for BOBBY & JUDY KOEFER) “Pearl’s Not A Girl It’s A Beer,”… Read More »7 DECEMBER 2019
I’m happy to say that I’ve got a couple of pieces in the December OKLAHOMA Magazine that both deal with very talented friends of mine. NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author and longtime Tulsan P.C. Cast tells us about some big developments with her wildly successful HOUSE OF NIGHT series of novels, while veteran Tulsa blues-rocker… Read More »TWO OKLAHOMA MAGAZINE ARTICLES