Brian Cullman “How To Prepare For The Past” is a Satisfying Ride Through Music, Memory, and a Vanished World What a fun and wonderful thing it is to stumble into a book that doesn’t just tell stories about music, but also makes you feel like you’re right there in the room with a radio in […]
Jorma Kaukonen and John Hurlbut brought their Last Bus Tour 2026 to Tulsa’s Church Studio on Tuesday night for a magical performance in the heart of Leon Russell’s Sanctuary of Sound. Having kicked off this month-long, twelve city tour in Austin on April 2nd, the long-time collaborators performed two sets as part of The Church […]
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Pat Metheny and Side-Eye delivered the goods in Tulsa Touring on the brand new album Side-Eye III+ which released on February 27th via his own Uniquity Music, Pat Metheny and band are in the midst of an extensive US spring tour. It brought the jazz and guitar legend back to Tulsa for the first time, […]
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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 […]
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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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