Crown heights

The reigning Queen of Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson puts on a ‘Party’ locally to celebrate her new album with The White Stripes’ leader

Music
Joshua Boydston
Wanda Jackson with Green Corn Revival
7 p.m. Friday
ACM@UCO Performance Lab, 323 E. Sheridan
974-4700, free

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Leon Russell — The Best of Leon Russell

Country rocker gets retrospective

Country
Rod Lott
Last week saw the release of “The Best of Leon Russell,” a 16-track collection of the Oklahoma native’s biggest hits of the 1970s, plus one song from last year’s collaborative album with Elton John.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Patti Smith — Outside Society

Can anyone but Patti Smith pen a gorgeous piano ballad out of the lyrics ‘pissing in a river’?

Rock
Matt Carney
Well, yeah — the song ends with tectonic plate-splitting crashes of pre-punk circa 1976.

Friday, July 22, 2011