Best of 2014: Parker Millsap, Colourmusic & Broncho
Welcome to Sample Size , where KOSU's Ryan LaCroix and LOOKatOKC pop music columnist Matt Carney team up each week to discuss music news and new music releases . Today, we look back at some of our...
View ArticleSongs We Love: Parker Millsap, 'Heaven Sent'
The great novelist Flannery O'Conner once wrote that, "To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures." This was her way of explaining why she populated...
View ArticleBob Dylan Archive To Be Permanently Housed in Tulsa
The Bob Dylan Archive has been acquired by the George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) and The University of Tulsa (TU) and will be permanently housed in Tulsa. The archive will be made available to...
View ArticleHear Thrilling New Music From Sturgill Simpson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miFepGMB55Q I knew this would be a thrill but I didn't expect the new Sturgill Simpson record to have bagpipes, a Nirvana cover and the Dap-Kings! Sturgill has announced...
View ArticleFirst Listen: Parker Millsap, 'The Very Last Day'
"It's not the end of the world" is a thing people say to place inconveniences in perspective, a reminder that a rush-hour fender bender doesn't belong to the same category of catastrophe as nuclear or...
View ArticleOn 'The Very Last Day,' Parker Millsap Brings Apocalyptic Imagery To Life
Parker Millsap has a voice that grabs you and doesn't let go. The musician is just 23, from a small town in Oklahoma — but the songs on his newest album, The Very Last Day , draw on older influences,...
View ArticleMiddle America At The Dawn Of Outlaw Country
Early in Heads , his deep exploration of American psychedelic culture, Jesse Jarnow details how the Berkeley-based visual artist Rick Shubb drew up a peculiar new world map. Called " Humbead's Revised...
View ArticleCountry Legend Merle Haggard Dies At 79
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loT_pYzi3Vw Merle Haggard was known by his fans as "Hag." With songs that reflected the working-class values and experiences of his own early life, Haggard found an...
View Article5 Things You Should Know About Merle Haggard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loT_pYzi3Vw His career spanned the famous Bakersfield sound, the outlaw era, and 38 No. 1 hits on the country music charts. Now comes word that Merle Haggard has died...
View ArticleParker Millsap On World Cafe
Parker Millsap grew up in the small town of Purcell, Okla., where he began singing in the Pentecostal church his parents attended. In 2014, he released his self-titled debut, which was full of songs...
View ArticleJohn Prine To Release New Duets Album, 'For Better, Or Worse'
For much of the post-Dylan age, and particularly in such self-consciously cerebral genres as indie rock, contemporary folk and Americana, artists have been more likely to command critical respect for...
View ArticleWATCH: Parker Millsap on Conan
Last night, Parker Millsap made his national television debut on Conan . The Purcell native released his third studio album, The Very Last Day , in March. The album has been nominated for Album of the...
View ArticleParker Millsap On Mountain Stage
Oklahoma native Parker Millsap returns to Mountain Stage, recorded live in Charleston, W.Va. The singer-songwriter was brought up in the Pentecostal church, an experience that provided ample...
View Article'There Wasn't None Of Us': Jean Shepard, Country Music Trailblazer, Dies At 82
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRO3ALAU9Sk Jean Shepard, one of the first women to find success in country music as a solo act, died Sunday at age 82. Shepard was a feisty, straight-shooting singer...
View ArticleAn Interview With David Macias of Thirty Tigers
David Macias is a Grammy Award-winning producer and co-founder of Thirty Tigers . The services of his Nashville-based entertainment company have fostered success stories for the likes of Lucinda...
View ArticleAn Interview With Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen has been a leading musician in the genre of Texas Country for the past three decades. He has recorded 18 full-length albums and had songs covered by George Strait, Lyle Lovett, The...
View ArticleAn Interview With Blake Parks of Nicnos
Four Oklahoma bands— Nicnos , Taddy Porter , Skytown & Good Villains —are joining forces to play the OklaHomeGrown Music Showcase at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa tonight. The celebration of Oklahoma...
View ArticleRed Dirt Music Pioneer Jimmy LaFave Dead At 61
A key figure in Oklahoma and Texas music has died. Jimmy LaFave passed away Sunday after a battle with a rare fast-growing cancer called spindle cell sarcoma. He was 61. Born in Wills Point, Texas,...
View ArticleJohn Cooper's Top Albums of 2017
John Cooper, co-host of the Red Dirt Radio Hour , shares his top albums of 2017, in no particular order: Jared Tyler - Dirt On Your Hands Andy Adams - Back To Square One BC & The Big Rig - Do You...
View ArticleWhy American Aquarium Chose to Record Their New Album in Tulsa, Oklahoma
American Aquarium will release their seventh studio album, Things Change , this Friday. The album is a personal and a political one, coming on the heels of a band member overhaul, changes in frontman...
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