This week, please join Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, under the direction of Jason Roberts, and me for a special live broadcast of SWING ON THIS. At this writing, I don’t know the song lineup, but I can tell you the band will be playing some… Read More »8 MARCH 2025
1. “Honeysuckle Rose,” Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (for PHILLIP PARRISH) 2. “What Have I Done,” Katie Shore(for BRETT BINGHAM) 3. “Drinking Champagne,” Cal Smith(for JOHN HAMILL and the GLASS LIFTERS) 4. “High Geared Daddy,” Derwood Brown and His Musical Brownies(for BILLY BYRD) 5. “My Buddy,” Herb… Read More »18 JANUARY 2025
When TULSA TERRORS co-producer Bryan Crain and I headed up Lookout Mountain to KTUL-TV, Channel 8, this morning (Wednesday) to plug Saturday’s premiere at Circle Cinema, we found out that our friend Jimmie Tramel was also on the GOOD DAY, TULSA guest roster. He was there… Read More »Pryor Creek Comic Convention
Join us for live for a Psychedelic Salute to Garage Band Rock ‘n’ Roll September 23, 2023 | Studio 308$18 Advance | $20 at the door TICKETS ON SALE NOW: WWW.STUDIO308TULSA.COMHope to see you there!
When the music that would become known as Western swing took off from Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, via Tulsa’s Cain’s Ballroom and radio station KVOO, a lot of bands came along that looked to Wills for inspiration — and sometimes, for outright imitation.… Read More »15 JANUARY 2022
As the story goes, Clarence Albert Poindexter had a waitress in his Turnertown, Texas tavern who was fooling around with a married man. One evening, the man’s wife showed up, toting a pistol, and chased the waitress out of the bar and through a pasture… Read More »Al Dexter, born May 4, 1905
Along with his wife, Linda, my friend Christopher Lewis was a pioneering filmmaker in the made-for-home-video market, directing — among other things — what was maybe the first truly successful feature film not intended to be shown in theaters . I remember Chris and his… Read More »Saying Goodbye to an Icon
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