Bruce Hornsby at the Tower Theatre October 2023 I can think of few things finer than spending an October Sunday evening with Bruce Hornsby, and by golly that’s just what I did. This past Sunday in Oklahoma City, the Tower Theatre hosted an Evening with Bruce Hornsby, which just happened to coincide with the 25th […]
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Peter Gabriel show in Dallas Peter Gabriel brought his 2023 North American i/o tour to Dallas’ American Airlines Arena this past Thursday evening, his first stop in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area in well over a decade. Touring once again in support of his highly anticipated new album, i/o which officially releases on December 1st. Gabriel […]
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Counting Crows brought their Banshee Season Tour into Riverwind Casino’s Showplace Theatre in Oklahoma City this past Friday evening, promptly taking the stage at 8pm, greeting the adoring audience like old friends. The band wasted little time, launching into a powerhouse trio of “Sullivan Street,” “Accidentally In Love,” and their breakout hit, “Mr Jones.” […]
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“It’s a folk singer’s job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people.” Still basking in the post concert glow from the previous day’s schedule, I hit the interstate earlier than initially planned and rolled back into Okemah specifically to see My Politic perform their noon set on the Crystal Theatre stage. If you […]
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WoodyFest 2023 The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music. Woody Guthrie It’s early July in Oklahoma, and that means a couple of things. First and foremost, the summer heat has typically made itself at home across the state, loathsome grass burrs are starting […]
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WINO: The Documentary I’ve been catching up on some of this years releases and features, and wanted to share this one with ya’ll. WINO: The Documentary was released back on May 13th coinciding with a festival premiere at the Maryland International Film Festival. Scott ‘Wino’ Weinrich is one of the most influential artists in the […]
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The Grateful Dead’s new archival box set, Here Comes Sunshine released this past Friday, June 30th via Rhino Records. Seemingly acknowledging the unspoken part, Legacy Manager and Audio Archivist, David Lemieux now refers to the box set release as an annual affair. One he indicates essentially, though unofficially, begun in 2011 with the widely successful […]
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A Chaotic Serenade 2023 Sorry folks, it’s been a minute. I think it’s been since the end of February that I last updated the column. I’ve had a lot going on, and in the midst of some personal and family crises, I think I’ve kind of lost my mojo a bit. Particularly for writing, but […]
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moe. brought their spring tour into the central southwest this year for a run of dates that included the legendary Cain’s Ballroom, the “Home of Bob Wills.” This was moe.’s first trip back to Oklahoma since 2016’s Backwoods Festival, and their first time back to Cain’s Ballroom since the spring of 2010. I’d last seen […]
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Tulsa songwriter Joey Frendo dropped his release Bound for Heartache this past Friday April 21st. Joey Frendo is a Michigan native who relocated to Tulsa in 2020 in the midst of the pandemic and following the unfortunate loss of his mother. A pair of incidents that while now looking back at, he says helped shape […]
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