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 […]
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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Lyle Lovett And His Large Band rein in a great time at OKC’s Criterion Lyle Lovett And His Large Band keep an attentive Criterion audience on their toes this past Wednesday evening, with their fascinating and quirky blend of Texas swing, gospel, country, jazz, R&B and storytelling. I moved to Oklahoma from Texas in 2005, […]
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WoodyFest 2025 – Day 4 Day four, and the final day of the 28th annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival got under way Saturday to an overcast sky, and a threat of heavy rain as the afternoon went on. Truth is, the clouds and early light rain brought welcome relief from the usual July Oklahoma heat, […]
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WoodyFest 2025 Day 3 Day 3 of the 2025 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival was already under way as I rolled into Okemah around noon Friday. I made my over to catch the last half of Shawna Russell’s 12:30 set at The Hen House, before making my was over to the Crystal for Annie Guthrie’s set […]
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