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Nominate your Tulsa A to Z for a chance to win a DVD
UPDATE: I counted 14 discrete suggestions. The number 11 was selected from a range of 1 to 14 by the random number generator at RANDOM.ORG. And the winner is... Adam, who nominated "C is for the Center of the Universe." Thanks to all for the excellent ideas, which induced a...
Hot Club of Cowtown, Brave Combo coming to Tulsa
After meeting a friend for a chat and a beer at Lola's after work today, I decided to take advantage of the clear, warm (but not hot) evening and went for a walk through the Brady District. Heading up Main Street I passed The Marquee (located between the Tulsa Violin...
From a cushioned parlor sofa to a fast moving Cadillac
Recognize these words, western swing fans? The light is in the parlor, A fire is in the grate; The clock upon the mantle Ticks out --"it's getting late" -- The curtains at the windows Are made of snowy white, The parlor is a pleasant place To sit on Sunday night,...
A review of <em>Radio Days</em>
I just received a CD called Radio Days by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. The CD was issued in 2005 by Tomato Records. I was excited when I first spotted this online because this appeared to be a radio broadcast of the Texas Playboys, complete with the opening and...
West Texas soundtrack
I used iTunes to mix a CD for our recent trip to west Texas. It's a combination of songs about Texas, songs about cotton farming, favorite Western Swing instrumentals (including arguably the first rock'n'roll song ever recorded -- Junior Barnard's Fat Boy Rag, recorded in 1946), and a few other...
A tale of two K/Cathys
So we're told there's a Cathy-with-a-C Taylor, an attorney, who ran into all sorts of problems trying to vote in 2000, and who has been put forward by the Kathy-with-a-K Taylor campaign as their explanation as to why voter records show that Kathy-with-a-K voted in person at Tulsa County Precinct...
Tommy Allsup is awesome....
And so are Leon Rausch and J. D. Walters and Mike Bennett and Curly Lewis and the rest of the Playboys that performed last night at Cain's Ballroom for the Bob Wills birthday bash. I was there with my wife, our first night out since the baby. The Round-Up Boys,...
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