Author: Melissa Payne

The Black Lillies may be on their Stranger To Me tour, but they’re no strangers to the Mercury Lounge in Tulsa, where they could be found last Friday night. Having released their new album, Stranger To Me, in late September, their first new album in 3 years, the band has been touring nonstop the last […]

Thursday’s show at The Shrine in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was like getting two sides of the same coin. Both Ryan Culwell and Will Hoge can be found in the Americana genre and both are talented songwriters. Both artists also recently released albums in the last few months and both albums are insight into these artists and […]

Fake skulls adorned the wall, rubber spiders sat on the bar and a witch hat perched on the head of a stuffed coyote high above the stage inside the Mercury Lounge on the Saturday before Halloween. Amid all these tricks, there was a quite a treat, and her name happens to be Jamie Lin Wilson. […]

There are times when the stars align and an iconic musician plays at an iconic venue. That was the case last Friday night when musical legend, Ray Wylie Hubbard played the equally iconic Cain’s Ballroom. A diverse crowd attended the show, with twenty-somethings perching on bleachers and couples in their twilight years crowding around tables […]

The Tulsa Arts District was bustling last Friday night. The streets were packed with cars and people were out and about for the First Friday Art Crawl. Unfortunately the crowd didn’t find their way into Cain’s Ballroom.  Upon arriving, tables and chairs covered half the famous dance floor and attendance was spotty at best. A […]

The blue neon sign of Tulsa’s Mercury Lounge was a beacon for Charley Crockett fans on Thursday night. Fans crowded into the bar and made Thursday night’s performance the third sold-out show for Charley Crockett at the Mercury Lounge in the last year. Opening the evening was Texas musician, Vincent Neil Emerson, who just recently […]