Buddy South made a stellar first impression on me. Windows down; local NPR affiliate turned way up. What I initially thought was a Drive-By Truckers cut ended up being something a bit more fun and funny. Now, it’s your turn to say hi. Oklahoma City-based quintet Buddy South is the country/Southern rock twist cone that’s […]
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Roamin’ holiday
John Calvin Abney album release show 8 p.m. Saturday The Blue Door 2805 N. McKinley Ave. bluedoorokc.com 405-524-0738 $20 Whenever John Calvin Abney needed to step away from life and think, he would cross the street from his old house on Tulsa’s S. Yale Avenue and visit the historic Route 66 diner Tally’s Good Food […]
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Jason Isbell brings his even-keeled Americana to The Criterion
Jason Isbell defies “bro-country” with informed criticisms of the American South and masculinity.
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OKC Fest headliners include Hagar, Potter, Drive-By Truckers, Rascal Flatts and more
OKC Fest returns for its second year with an expanded lineup, including Sammy Hagar & The Circle, Rascal Flatts, Grace Potter, Hank Williams Jr. and more over two nights in Oklahoma City.
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The Athens, Georgia-by-way-of-Alabama outfit has gripped listeners’ souls with an international scope through its unflinching and sometimes willfully grim narratives of love, life and loss.
The Athens, Georgia-by-way-of-Alabama outfit has gripped listeners’ souls with an international scope through its unflinching and sometimes willfully grim narratives of love, life and loss.
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Wellfleet — The District
A recently popularized trend in folk is to go to a location with no songs but the intent of writing an album, and The District has taken that approach in crafting its debut. The results of that approach are deeply ingrained in the feel of the album, as the whole things hangs together like a […]
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U.S. Royalty — Mirrors
The harmony-heavy vocals and full-band arrangements of these folky tunes scream Fleet Foxes, America and Crosby, Stills & Nash. But I like U.S. Royalty more than all of those, because their harmonies retain a vitality and directness that cut through kitsch and get to the heart of the feeling. It also helps that they have […]