Haling from East Texas, the boys from Tyler and the Tribe play their own version of Lone Star country. While staying rooted in that time-honored musical tradition, this young quartet isn’t afraid to pull in plenty of other influences – […]
Julie is a staff writer for Currentland, a monthly, regional entertainment magazine. She also writes regularly for Tulsa Kids and Intermission magazines. She is co-director of Tulsa Roots Music.
Haling from East Texas, the boys from Tyler and the Tribe play their own version of Lone Star country. While staying rooted in that time-honored musical tradition, this young quartet isn’t afraid to pull in plenty of other influences – […]
Austin-based acoustic music innovator, MilkDrive, is packed with talent and creativity. While the group’s array of stringed instruments harkens back to an earlier time, this isn’t your grandpa’s bluegrass band. Multi-instrumentalists and founding band members Brian Beken, Dennis Ludiker and Noah Jeffries met as […]
John Fullbright performing “Jericho” live on Guthrie Green 10/04. Season finale of Tulsa Roots Rocks the Green 2015 free concert series on Tulsa’s Guthrie Green. Presented by Tulsa Roots Music www.tulsarootsmusic.org. Video filmed & produced by Red Dirt Nation www.reddirtnation.com.
If you think rock and roll is only a young man’s game, then you haven’t met Joe Ely. With more than four decades of writing, performing and touring behind him, this Texas singer songwriter is in top form. At 68, […]
There’s a lot to love about Kevin Russell and his band Shinyribs, the riotous, Southern-swamp, musical carnival headed up by this former frontman of Austin’s now defunct Gourds. If tent revivals had an ass-shaking soundtrack, this would be it. It’s […]
Joplin, Missouri-based Ben Miller Band’s sound is a hard-driving blend of bluegrass, delta blues and Appalachian mountain music delivered with a punk rock punch. The trio uses lo-tech and largely self-built instruments to achieve its sound, everything from a cigar […]
Like the hero in a country song, a teenaged Sam Riggs sold most of what he owned, packed the rest in his truck, and left his hometown of St. Cloud, Fla. for the music mecca of Austin, Tex., following his […]
If you’re looking for the future of Texas songwriters, you’ll find it in young William Clark Green. This 29-year-old is all about his craft, and it shows in his clever, often wicked, lyrics. Green sings the words we wish we […]
Oklahoma native son, Master of Space and Time and hugely influential musician Leon Russell is going back to Tulsa one more time. August 6, Russell and his talented band will perform at The Joint in The Hard Rock Casino. This […]
Full of grit, soul, and even some tenderness, Tennessee Jet is the alter ego/one-man band/tour de force of Nashville musician TJ McFarland. It’s a powerful, rockin’, badass sound, all produced by one talented musician whose own musical heroes are as diverse […]