Amanda Shires 8 p.m. March 21 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $24-$100 Released in February, Amanda Shires’ “Deciphering Dreams” is an optimistic song about a tragedy. “In some ways, it’s different for me because it’s a hopeful and kind of happy song,” Shires said. “I have a tendency sometimes to talk more […]
Bob Wills
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Gerle talk
Gerle Haggard 10 p.m. Friday The Deli 309 White St., Norman thedeli.us 405-329-3534 $7 Billing itself as “all girl, all Merle,” Portland, Oregon-based Merle Haggard tribute band Gerle Haggard is literally a dream come true — just not the dream of anyone in the band. “Our drummer [Nikki Jardin], her friend had this dream, woke […]
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Oklahoma History Center releases rare Bob Wills recordings on vinyl
Rare recordings of Oklahoma legend Bob Wills traveled from a drummer’s personal collection to the OKPOP museum.
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Cover story: Kyle Dillingham’s new album proves we’re all perfectly Broken
“Each one of these has a tag on it,” he said. “Each one of these was rented to students in Oklahoma City.”
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Cover Story Teaser: Kyle Dillingham’s new album proves we’re all perfectly Broken
This isn’t punk rock — it’s far from it — but it might as well be. Local musician Kyle Dillingham finds our voices, our shared stories of defeat and hope, in a box filled with broken instruments and his new album, Broken Beyond Repair. P. 39. Be sure to pick up this week’s Oklahoma Gazette […]
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Wills’ way
With the help of a $200,000 donation from the Grammy Foundation, the Oklahoma Historical Society is preserving an estimated 600 hours of Western swing that the famed musician recorded in the 1940s. The project evolved after the Wills family donated his entire archives to the OHS after being housed in Turkey, Texas, for more than […]
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BOK to donate land for Oklahoma pop culture museum
One of the biggest question marks was replaced with a period yesterday when Bank of Oklahoma announced that it intends to donate land in that city’s Brady District to the Oklahoma Historical Society for the proposed Oklahoma Museum of Music and Pop Culture, or OK Pop. “It’s a culture in our community to give back,” […]