Parker Millsap 8-10 p.m. May 4-5 Sooner Theatre 101 E. Main St., Norman soonertheatre.org 405-321-9600 $20-$25 There is an anxious limbo period many artists go through between recording an album and releasing it to the public months or even more than a year after the fact. It’s more than adequate time for the mind to […]
Muddy Waters
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The Unlikely Blues Band releases its debut EP after years of live music
Founding member and guitarist Chuck Lunn draws on a lengthy history with blues music for the quintet’s original acoustic jams.
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June tunes
It’s hard to emerge from the shadow of a legend, but Murali Coryell has made peace with the fact that his father is famed blues guitarist Larry Coryell. “He does things I can’t do. I do things he can’t do. We’re equal. So let’s play together!” the younger Coryell said. And they will, as both […]
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In the ear
Alive since 2009, the act is as eclectic as its stated influences: “The Sonics, Dick Dale, Muddy Waters, Tom Petty, Elvis, and the entire ‘Dirty Dancing’ soundtrack.” For the time of your life, you may want to attend to witness its blend of roots-rock rhythm and blues with a Texas redneck attitude. NITF!’s debut album, […]
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Shutter sounds
Picking up his new book, “Adventures of a Rock Photographer,” will get you stories and pictures from one of rock music’s most fertile periods: 1976-1986, with 165 of its 200 pages dedicated to 1977-1980. To illustrate just how top-heavy the era was in good music, consider Gowdy’s first assignment as a photographer at the University […]