Tulsa’s Cain’s Ballroom played host once again to this year’s Bob Dylan Center’s musical tribute to its namesake with its “Sooner or Later” event on Friday, February 20, 2026. This year’s event was a special one-night-only tribute concert celebrating the 60th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s landmark 1966 double album Blonde on Blonde. Sixty years? Where […]
Morrissey Debuts “Make Up Is a Lie” at OKC’s Criterion This past Tuesday, Morrissey brought his North American Tour 2026 to Oklahoma City’s Criterion, delivering a memorable career-spanning performance to an appreciative audience. The performance was the second show of the tour, and was actually a make-up date for a rescheduled performance last May. It […]
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Top Picks of 2025: Dave Nowels Self-Indulgence What a roller coaster year 2025 was for music. It was a year that saw music fans processing an immeasurable amount of grief over so many of our fallen musical heroes. From Americana and roots icons to pure rock stars, we lost some big ones this year including: […]
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A Miles Davis Exclusive Highlights the Record Store Day Black Friday 2025 Releases This year’s RSD Black Friday list is, as always, overflowing with standouts and must-haves for music fans of every stripe. Labels figured out long ago that limited pressings, alternate mixes, and especially vault/archival gold are the fastest way to a collector’s heart […]
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Scott “Wino” Weinrich Create or Die Scott ‘Wino’ Weinrich’s fourth solo album, Create or Die, drops this Friday October 24th via Ripple Music. If you happened to have caught his 2020 release Forever Gone, which I reviewed here: (https://americanahighways.org/2020/06/24/review-scott-wino-weinrich-strips-away-the-doom-and-bridges-genres-on-forever-gone ) or his previous albums with Conny Ochs, you know Wino can step away from the […]
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John Calvin Abney returns with Transparent Towns John Calvin Abney’s seventh studio album, Transparent Towns, which is set for release on September 19th via Tin Canyon Records and Well Kept Secret/Secretly Distribution, is a hauntingly beautiful meditation on time, memory, and of the impermanence of place. Transparent Towns‘ songs were written during a period of […]
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Redd & The Paper Flowers at OKC’s Blue Note Lounge Redd & The Paper Flowers, touring behind Appalachian Bell Jar their independent debut album which released in May earlier this year, had arranged a fairly last minute gig for this past Tuesday in Oklahoma City at the Blue Note Lounge. The Knoxville, TN band was […]
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The Tedeschi Trucks Band and Leon Russell Present: Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (LIVE AT LOCKN’) The Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (LIVE AT LOCKN’) is a soul-stirring, ambitious tribute to Joe Cocker and Leon Russell’s original and iconic 1970 live album of the same name, captured during a historic performance at […]
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The Tedeschi Trucks Band got their 2025 tour back under way in Tulsa Tuesday night, electrifying a packed Tulsa Theater. Feeling fresh after some brief down time following another epic NYC Beacon Theater run at the end of May, The Tedeschi Trucks Band picked up right where they left off. Shaking off any rust or […]
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The Million Dollar Bashers at Cain’s Ballroom It’s been a good year to be a Dylan fan in Tulsa. Earlier this spring, Bob himself performed over at the Tulsa Theater (see our coverage here: https://americanahighways.org/2025/03/27/show-review-bob-dylan-in-tulsa), and earlier last week, The Bob Dylan Center opened its newest exhibition Going Electric: Dylan ’65, which is a look […]
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