Articles (Blog)

Oklahoma Red Dirt musi­cian Jake Flint, age 37, died Sunday, mere hours after mar­ry­ing his fiancée, Brenda. His long­time pub­li­cist ...
Read More about R.I.P. Jake Flint, 1985 – 2022

I met “Princess of Twang” Nancy Apple in 2013, my first year vol­un­teer­ing to doc­u­ment the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2014: Nancy Apple

Wink Burcham will return to Woodyfest for the sev­enth time in 2021. His pre­vi­ous appear­ance was in 2019, which we’ve ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2014: Wink Burcham

Dan Weber is the only song­writer in the his­tory of the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival to have pulled off the ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2014: Dan Weber

Today’s post presents a photo gallery com­pris­ing images I cap­tured in var­i­ous back­stage areas at the 2014 Woody Guthrie Folk ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2014: Backstage, Band Camp, & Okemah

Saturday night at Woodyfest 2019 kicked off, as in pastThis is the sev­en­teenth post in our cov­er­age of the twenty-sec­ond ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: Songwriting Contest Winners

This week­end, I cel­e­brated my six­ti­eth birth­day sur­rounded by friends and fam­ily. If you had told me I would be ...
Read More about 3 Score Times around the Sun

On Valentine's Day, 2021, a mas­sive win­ter storm pushed across the cen­tral and south­ern US plains, plung­ing tem­per­a­tures to record-break­ing ...
Read More about The Valentine’s Day Blizzard, Norman, Oklahoma

Emerging from Baltimore’s folk scene in the late 1980s, Sonia Rutstein formed the folk-duo Disappear Fear (styl­ized “dis­ap­pear fear”) with ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2014: SONiA dis­ap­pear fear

As in years past, Woodyfest 14 show­cased three song­writ­ing con­test win­ners. Thursday evening at the Pastures of Plenty Stage kicked ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2014: 1st-Place Songwriting Contest Winner Lori Holyfield

By his own rec­ol­lec­tion, Woodyfest reg­u­lar Jared Tyler Frederick began his pro­fes­sional music career around the time he turned four­teen ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: Jared Tyler

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: in 2001, a school­teacher on a large Blackfoot reserve in south­ern Alberta ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2014: John Wort Hannam

In 2013, Lance Canales and his band, the Flood, cov­ered Woody Guthrie’s song “Refugee.” Guthrie wrote the song shortly after ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2014: Lance Canales & the Flood

Two-time chart-top­per Stoll Vaughan made his Woodyfest debut in 2019. Vaughan took the Crystal Theatre stage mid-after­noon on fes­ti­val Friday ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: Stoll Vaughan

We wrote about Woodyfest reg­u­lar Sam Baker just over a year ago so we won’t repeat our­selves here. Baker has ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2013: Sam Baker

Forming in 2007 while its mem­bers were in high school, The Myrrors play “a sun-baked, mys­ti­cal form of psy­che­delia informed ...
Read More about Sonoran Trance: The Myrrors at Dope Chapel

Self-described “folk-punk” singer-song­writer Annie Guthrie per­formed a set on the Crystal Theatre stage on fes­ti­val Friday. Guthrie is the mid­dle ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: Annie Guthrie (Featuring Arlo & Cathy)

As part of Woodyfest’s con­tin­u­ing edu­ca­tional out­reach, author Daniel Wolff gave a short talk about his book, Grown Up Anger ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: Grown Up Anger with Author Daniel Wolff

When they appeared on the Brick Café stage dur­ing Woodyfest 2013, The Deslondes were still billing them­selves as Sam Doores ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2013: The Deslondes

Self-described “folky-tonk” duo Pushing Chain made their Woodyfest debut on the Bound for Glory stage on fes­ti­val Friday. The pair ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: Pushing Chain

For the sec­ond straight year, Woodyfest hosted an expanded children’s out­reach, fea­tur­ing sev­eral youth con­certs and work­shops. These included a ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: Kids’ Harmonica Class

Red Molly cofounder Carolann Solebello per­formed an inti­mate solo set on the Crystal Theatre Stage dur­ing Woodyfest 2019. The small ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: Carolann Solebello

I wasn’t assigned to pho­to­graph John Fullbright at last year’s fes­ti­val, but I did catch this shot of Fullbright jam­ming ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: John Fullbright

As of this writ­ing the Woody Guthrie Poets have pre­sented read­ings at fif­teen con­sec­u­tive Woody Guthrie Folk Festivals. They gave ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2013: Woody Guthrie Poets with David Amram

By some stan­dards, Jamie Lin Wilson is a late bloomer. She was nine­teen when she heard Natlie Maines per­form­ing a ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: Jamie Lin Wilson

Jacob Tovar didn’t set out to be a musi­cian. The Tulsa-based musi­cian grew up with a deep, abid­ing love of ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: Jacob Tovar

Critically praised Choctaw singer Samantha Crain appeared on the Crystal Stage at Woodyfest in 2013. It was her fourth time ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2013: Samantha Crain

Marking their twenty-first appear­ance at Woodyfest 2019, the Red Dirt Rangers took the stage fol­low­ing fid­dler Randy Crouch. Crouch remained ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: Red Dirt Rangers

Between 2018 and 2019 I did some horse­trad­ing and upgraded my Hasselblad 500c/​m to a 503cx. I also acquired a ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: Thursday Backstage

Bringing their “low-tech” PowerPoint to the Brick Street Café in 2013, musi­cal duo Still on the Hill had the audi­ence ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2013: Still on the Hill

In 2019 Tulsa-based singer/​songwriter Wink Burcham made his sixth straight Woodyfest appear­ance, per­form­ing a late-after­noon set on the Bound for ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: Wink Burcham

We’ve fea­tured folk-trou­ba­dour Tim Easton at the bureau pre­vi­ously. But we first met him in 2013 when he made his ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2013: Tim Easton

Although Andy Adams is no stranger to music, the Tahlequah native admits the title of his lat­est release, Back to ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: Andy Adams

We’ve writ­ten about Gypsy Twang before, so we’ll keep this short. The Tulsa band appeared at Woodyfest for the sec­ond ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: Community Outreach with Gypsy Twang & Friends

Today we present can­did images from my first year as a vol­un­teer pho­tog­ra­pher for the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. I ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2013: Band Camp & Backstage

In 1977, twenty-six-year-old vagabond singer Larry Long wrote Pope County Blues in sup­port of farm­ers fight­ing a high volt­age power ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2019: Larry Long

Five years ago I pub­lished a story about the 5k zom­bie race in Guthrie, Oklahoma. At the time I shared ...
Read More about Gallery: The Secret Post (Zombie Run 5K After-Life Party)

Five years ago I pub­lished a story about the 5K zom­bie race in Guthrie, Oklahoma. At the time I shared ...
Read More about Gallery: Zombie Bolt 5K Run After Life Party

Recap: Five years ago I pub­lished a story about the 5K zom­bie race in Guthrie, Oklahoma. At the time I ...
Read More about Gallery: Zombie Bolt 5K Run (Post-Race)

Recap: Five years ago I pub­lished a story about the 5K zom­bie race in Guthrie, Oklahoma. At the time I ...
Read More about Gallery: Zombie Bolt 5K Run (The Race)

Five years ago I pub­lished a story about the 5K zom­bie race in Guthrie, Oklahoma. At the time I shared ...
Read More about Gallery: Zombie Bolt 5K Run (Pre-Race)

A pair of Oklahoma’s pre­mier song­writ­ers shar­ing a stage should draw a crowd. But if it’s Monday night the week ...
Read More about Brad Fielder & Dan Martin (Song Swap at The Deli)

In 1957 a young archi­tect named Herb Greene returned to his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma, to teach. Working ...
Read More about Herb Greene’s Prairie House

My friend RT Valine and his wife Jackie were vis­it­ing the Bureau one evening and we got to dis­cussing food ...
Read More about Be Vewwy Quiet — We’re Hunting Mushwooms!

My first encounter with the music of My Brightest Diamond was a track on a RED + HOT com­pi­la­tion. During ...
Read More about My Brightest Diamond at Guestroom Records (OKIE-X Outtakes & Gallery)

It’s been years since the Dollyrots played Oklahoma City. But for­tune finally favored the city’s denizens: last April they opened ...
Read More about The Dollyrots: Interview & Gallery

Here are the pre­vi­ously unpub­lished black and white pho­tos from elec­tronic world fusion group Beats Antique play­ing the Diamond Ballroom ...
Read More about Black and White Gallery: Beats Antique at the Diamond Ballroom

I’m mov­ing the bulk of my Flickr pho­tos to their new per­ma­nent home. Back in 2012 I posted some pic­tures ...
Read More about Color Gallery: Beats Antique at the Diamond Ballroom

As part of my cleanup of my Flickr account, here are some pho­tos of LYNX I took at the Diamond ...
Read More about Gallery: LYNX at the Diamond Ballroom

This writer had only one offi­cial assign­ment (cov­er­ing gritty soul-singer Opal Agafia) at the big out­door stage on fes­ti­val Saturday ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Randy Crouch, Johnny Irion, & John Fullbright

I took the same medium for­mat gear to the Pastures of Plenty back­stage as I had on Thursday and Friday ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Saturday Backstage

The biggest musi­cal influ­ence in Opal Agafia’s life is her mom. Agafia char­ac­ter­izes her­self as a “life­long seri­ous shower singer,” ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Opal Agafia & the Sweet Nothings

I first met singer-song­writer Ken Pomeroy on New Year's Eve, 2015. Her father, Skippy, builds rac­ing motor­cy­cles in the large ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Ken Pomeroy

In my sopho­more high school year, my fam­ily moved from the house we had been rent­ing in the sub­urbs to ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Willis Alan Ramsey

At first glance, one could be for­given for dis­miss­ing twenty-five-year-old singer-song­writer Josh Okeefe as a mere pas­ticheur. An inter­net image ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Josh Okeefe

Despite the band name, And Then There Were Two does not com­prise two mem­bers. The band num­bers three: singer Amy ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: And Then There Were Two

Members of the Guthrie fam­ily per­formed a musi­cal show­case at Okemah’s St. Paul’s United Methodist Church on Saturday after­noon of ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Guthrie Kids & the Family Band

Woodyfest held its innau­gural Woodyfest Youth Songwriting/​Showcase Competition in 2018. The show­case fea­tured per­form­ers age six­teen or younger. Master of ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Youth Songwriting /​​ Showcase Competition

The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival has pro­vided a vari­ety of children's pro­gram­ming over the years. Last year the fes­ti­val expanded ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Kids’ Harmonica Class

Brad Lauretti has been wan­der­ing. Originally from Brooklyn, then based in Florida, now call­ing Nashville home, Lauretti rarely sleeps in ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: This Frontier Needs Heroes

Ellis Paul loves Woody. Of the Woody Guthrie tat­too on his right shoul­der, he says it’s the only thing he ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Ellis Paul & Jason Mraz

Sam Baker has told the story of barely sur­viv­ing a train bomb­ing many times. The stark out­line: some three decades ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Sam Baker

I took the same medium for­mat gear back­stage to the Pastures of Plenty as I had on Thursday. I’ve already ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Friday Backstage

Third place in the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival Songwriting Contest (2018) went to Robert Thatcher and Tom Brown. Thatcher ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: 3rd Place Songwriter Robert Thatcher

According to their band bio, The Damn Quails began life as a weekly jam ses­sion between song­writ­ers and core band­mem­bers ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: The Damn Quails

I drove to Okemah in early December to see folk singer and song­writer Tim Easton. Easton was on the first ...
Read More about Tim Easton: Exposition Interview & Gallery

Your hum­ble author first met musi­cian Kalyn Fay in early 2016 when jour­nal­ist Nathan Poppe brought her to the Bureau’s ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Kalyn Fay

The first time this writer heard Brad Fielder was in 2013. I was at the Bluebonnet Bar to see Alex ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Brad Fielder & R. T. Valine

Friday at the fes­ti­val found this writer still cov­er­ing the enter­tain­ment at Lou’s Rocky Road Tavern. Erik “The Viking” Oftedahl ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Desi & Cody

Festival Friday proved to be uncom­fort­ably hot in the beer gar­den attached to Lou’s Rocky Road Tavern. The pre­vi­ous day’s ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Erik the Viking & Blake Lankford

This year’s Woodyfest con­tin­ued a long-stand­ing tra­di­tion of pro­vid­ing acces­si­ble enter­tain­ment through­out the host-town of Okemah. On fes­ti­val Friday ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Scott Taylor (Community Outreach)

Let’s just get it out of the way. Chloe-Beth Campbell (just “Chloe-Beth” when she per­forms) is tiny. Just shy of ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Chloe-Beth

Making their Woodyfest debut, Gypsy Twang played the Hen House stage Friday after­noon. Husband and wife Steve Huhn (bass) and ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Gypsy Twang

You know how some­times you see a movie, and you’re pos­i­tive that a favorite actor appeared in it, and later ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Dan Martin

Marking their third appear­ance at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, the Turnpike Troubadours closed open­ing night 2018 on the Pastures ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Turnpike Troubabdours

This writer first saw Carter Sampson three-and-a-half years ago, when she played a short set at the Community Improvement Association ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Carter Sampson

The Red Dirt Rangers may not have birthed Red Dirt, but they helped mid­wife the musi­cal genre into the world ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Red Dirt Rangers

This year’s sec­ond place song­writ­ing con­test title went to Charlie Mosbrook for his song “Remember Who We Are.” Mosbrook per­formed ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: 2nd Place Songwriter Charlie Mosbrook

As most Woodyfest sup­port­ers know, fes­ti­val favorite Audrey Auld Mezera died of com­pli­ca­tions from can­cer three years ago. The Tasmanian ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Thursday Backstage

From the moment she began to sing “Trance” from the Brick Café stage, Mary Battiata had this writer's short hairs ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Mary Battiata

Cleveland County res­i­dents may cast early in-per­son absen­tee bal­lots at the Cleveland County Election Board at 641 East Robinson Street ...
Read More about Early In-Person Absentee Voting, 2018 Mid-Terms, Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Led by vet­eran English rocker Stephen D. Ineson, The Milagro Saints had the audi­ence rock­ing in their seats in a ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Milagro Saints

Making his fourth appear­ance as a per­former at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, Johnsmith thrilled the audi­ence with a rock ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Johnsmith

Rick Reiley has never missed attend­ing the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. At least, he doesn't think so. Reiley kicked off ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Rick Reiley

Born in the Bronx under the name Elizabeth Gowan Berliner, Jaane Doe started her musi­cal career at age eleven in ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Jaane Doe

Kicking off the 21st annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, Bill Lewis brought his solo trou­ba­dor act to the base­ment of ...
Read More about Woodyfest 2018: Bill Lewis

Last Tuesday evening, the Faculty Heights neigh­bor­hood joined thou­sands of oth­ers across the U.S. to cel­e­brate National Night Out. National ...
Read More about National Night Out, Faculty Heights

Last Sunday I drove out to the Lawton area with cus­tom leather­worker and hik­ing enthu­si­ast Michael Parham. Our goal was ...
Read More about Trekking thru the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge with a 4×5 Field Camera

Returning to the scene of their very first show, for­mer Okies Skating Polly played to a sold-out house at OPOLIS ...
Read More about Skating Polly: The Make It All Show Tour Kickoff

On 26 May, cen­tral Oklahoma felt an earth­quake. The vibra­tions were from the nee­dle drop­ping on Godfather of Alt-Rock Tyson ...
Read More about Tea with Tyson Meade (Interview & Gallery)

Through a series of unfor­tu­nate cir­cum­stances, my friend Mark Campbell lost cus­tody of his ther­apy dog, a cairn ter­rier named ...
Read More about Walter

Visual artists and musi­cians pooled their tal­ents last Saturday to raise money for the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. Hosted ...
Read More about Hoot at the Root

This past Independence Day, my best friend and pho­to­graphic con­spir­a­tor Joe Crumley and I drove to see the aban­doned Gandini ...
Read More about Wanette, Oklahoma

On the same week­end that Joe and I trav­eled to Roosevelt, we stopped to pho­to­graph sev­eral other small towns. Our ...
Read More about Tuttle, Cordell, Mountain View, & Anadarko

Roosevelt is a small, all-but-aban­doned town in west­ern Oklahoma. According to the lat­est cen­sus, the pop­u­la­tion num­bers 248. Today it’s ...
Read More about Downtown Roosevelt, Oklahoma

Photographer Paige S. Wilson recently dropped by Mercury Photo Bureau for a facil­i­ties tour. We traded places behind the cam­era ...
Read More about Paige S. Wilson, Photographer

This is an exam­ple of a por­trait made using x-ray film and a mod­i­fied “Rembrandt” light­ing setup. I used a ...
Read More about X-Ray Film Portraiture with Modified Rembrandt Lighting

Cleveland County res­i­dents cast early absen­tee bal­lots in the November 2016 General Election begin­ning today. Despite the national trend lim­it­ing ...
Read More about In Person Early Absentee Voting — 2016 General Election Edition

Jarvix. The man. The musi­cian. The mys­tery. Cynics call his music twee. The less jaded and more gen­er­ous call it ...
Read More about Who Is Evan Jarvicks? An Interview & Gallery

I met Claude Butler when he 1st moved to Norman in 1987. He had an arrange­ment with the man­age­ment at ...
Read More about Claude “The Master” Butler

Friends and fam­ily of 25 year-old Norman res­i­dent Dayna Cannon gath­ered at the Deli on Thursday for a ben­e­fit con­cert ...
Read More about Benefit Concert for Sprint4Sarcoma 5K & 1M Fun Run

Norman res­i­dents had the oppor­tu­nity to cast their bal­lots today dur­ing early absen­tee vot­ing in the munic­i­pal elec­tion ...
Read More about City or Norman Special Election

Unless you’ve been trapped at the bot­tom of a well for the past 2 weeks, you know the great David ...
Read More about The Wurly Birds Present: A David Bowie Tribute

This is a series of shots I made to work out the expo­sure char­ac­ter­is­tics of Kodak Ektascan B/​RA film. Ektascan ...
Read More about X-Ray Film Exposure Test (Cranberries)

Featuring the music of the late Queen front­man Freddie Mercury, Friday and Saturday’s per­for­mances of The King of Queen played ...
Read More about The King of Queen

Continuing on the heels of his suc­cess­ful Roger Miller, John Prine, and Smiths trib­ute shows, last month musi­cian Jerrod Beck ...
Read More about J. J. Cale Tribute at the Power House Bar

One of the most pop­u­lar recent broad­casts on KOSU the SPY FM’s Oklahoma Rock Show was their all Roger Miller ...
Read More about Musical Tributes at the Power House Bar

I found this cool bowtie on an online auc­tion site — you know the one — and it was just ...
Read More about Another Lighting Test (and a Cool Bowtie)

Astute read­ers may have noticed that I’ve been tran­si­tion­ing to using mostly my Fujifilm X-T1 cam­era, with my Leica M9-P ...
Read More about Fun with Macro Photography

I made my usual Tuesday gro­cery shop­ping stop at the Cleveland County Farmers’ Market and I saw this very attrac­tive ...
Read More about For Display Only

The most essen­tial item in any photographer’s bag is a rel­a­tively inex­pen­sive item, often over­looked — the hum­ble roll of ...
Read More about Camera Bag Essentials: Gaffer’s Tape

Just some flow­ers, in case you hadn’t noticed that it's Spring. I found these lit­tle beau­ties when I went out ...
Read More about Violets

My acquain­tance, Robert Mark Campbell (he goes by “Mark”), recently adopted a 5-year-old cairn ter­rier after his long­time ther­apy dog, ...
Read More about Okra

My friend Jaime Ladd coör­di­nates an “adven­tur­ous din­ers” group on a pop­u­lar social media plat­form; one of the group mem­bers ...
Read More about Modeling Shoot: Lighting Test with Jaime

In con­tin­u­ing to learn the ins and outs of my recently acquired Paul C. Buff “Einstein” (model E640) stu­dio strobe, ...
Read More about Using the Paul C. Buff Einstein with a Light Meter

I bought a used Paul C. Buff “Einstein” (model E640) stu­dio strobe just before Christmas; the pack­age arrived on New ...
Read More about Paul C. Buff “Einstein” Lighting Test

An online cam­paign to bring atten­tion to Norman High School and local law enforcement's response to the alleged rape of ...
Read More about #YesAllDaughters Student Walkout & Protest

Cleveland County vot­ers may cast their bal­lots before Tuesday at the Cleveland County Election Board, 641 East Robinson, just east ...
Read More about Midterm Elections Early Voting

Norman Democrats cast their bal­lots today in the statewide runoff elec­tion. Democrats will decide between John Cox and Freda Deskin ...
Read More about Runoff Election, Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Yes, that’s Emmy-win­ning rap­per Jabee slic­ing birth­day cake with my pock­etknife ...
Read More about Teaser: Jabee’s Birthday Party

Yesterday we told you about the Surrogate Band, formed in 2011 to per­form Pink Floyd’s The Wall. The Surrogate Band ...
Read More about The Surrogate Band at Opolis (Gallery)

Originally formed in 2011 for an extrav­a­gant per­for­mance of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, the Surrogate Band has reformed for a ...
Read More about The Surrogate Band Presents: A David Bowie Tribute

My good friend David Goad is rais­ing money to tour with his band, Kali Ra, by record­ing a cook­ing show ...
Read More about Cooking with Kali-Ra, Episode One

Today marks the return of the Cleveland County Farmers’ Market. Hours have changed from the famil­iar Saturday and Wednesday morn­ing ...
Read More about Cleveland County Farmers’ Market Opens; Features New Hours

One of Oklahoma’s most antic­i­pated music releases of 2014 dropped 23 February, with the release of Skating Polly’s third full-length ...
Read More about Skating Polly Show at Guestroom Records

Tumbling Nebulæ formed in early 2013 when bassist Steven Machovic and key­board player Cynthia “Luxy” Machovic got together with gui­tarist ...
Read More about Tumbling Nebulæ Interview & Gallery

One of nine sib­lings, Rebekah Pulley grew up in rural Alaska lis­ten­ing to her the gui­tar play­ing of her dad ...
Read More about Rebekah Pulley at the Brick Café — Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

I first met singer-song­writer Alex Culbreth (Parlor Soldiers, Alex Culbreth and the Dead Country Stars) in July, when he was ...
Read More about Alex Culbreth: Black & Blue (Interview & Gallery)

As singer-song­writer Rebecca Loebe told the audi­ence at the Crystal Theatre this past July, she didn’t mean to become a ...
Read More about Rebecca Loebe at the Crystal Theatre — Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

Fresh from win­ning the Rose Garden Coffee House Performing Songwriter Competition in Mansfield, Maine and plac­ing 2nd in the New ...
Read More about Paddy Mills at the New Dominion Stage — Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

With his full beard streaked grey and his horn-rimmed eye­glasses, Otis Gibbs might be mis­taken for one-time Nashville res­i­dent Steve ...
Read More about Otis Gibbs at the Crystal Theatre — Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

Between 1854 and 1929, the Children's Aid Society (and later, the Catholic New York Foundling Hospital) removed over a quar­ter ...
Read More about Riders on the Orphan Train — Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

Princess of Twang Nancy Apple and coun­try trou­ba­dour Rob McNurlin are are almost as famil­iar to Woody Guthrie Folk Festival ...
Read More about Nancy Apple & Rob McNurlin — Okemah Nutrition Center, Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

One half of brother-sis­ter duo Berteal , Kim Gentry made her Woodyfest debut at the Crystal Theatre this past July, ...
Read More about Kim Gentry at the Crystal Theatre — Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

Born and raised on the Wind River Indian Reservation near Lander, Wyoming, soul­ful singer-song­writer Garrett LeBeau grew up vir­tu­ally with­out ...
Read More about Garrett LeBeau — Pastures of Plenty Stage, Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

It just keeps get­ting bet­ter for Dan Weber. In 2010, he was nom­i­nated for the pres­ti­gious Dave Carter Songwriting Contest ...
Read More about Dan Weber at the Crystal Theatre — Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

Although singer-song­writer Audrey Auld iTunes describes her style as music with the dirt left on, that’s dirt from a dis­tinctly ...
Read More about Audrey Auld at the Crystal Theatre — Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

Making his Woody Guthrie Folk Festival debut this past July, Alex Culbreth (Parlor Soldiers, Alex Culbreth and the Dead Country ...
Read More about Alex Culbreth at The Brick Café — Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

The Woody Guthrie Coalition have been try­ing to book Grammy Award-nom­i­nated duo Trout Fishing in America to play the annual ...
Read More about Trout Fishing in America Children’s Matinee — Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

Last week I stopped at Taqueria Ruiz for lunch after run­ning some morn­ing errands. I ordered a taco revuelta with ...
Read More about Taqueria Ruiz

This past Sunday the Bureau invited noise-rock­ers SonicViolence, along with video direc­tor Mike Walsh, to drop by for an inter­view ...
Read More about SonicViolence Interview & Gallery

My friend David Goad (Kali-Ra, Of the Tower) and his wife Alicia are head­ing to Europe for vaca­tion soon, and ...
Read More about Shift, Davey!

Chase Anderson and Oliver Holden-Moses, both age 14, and Nico Lantelme, age 13, are pretty nor­mal teenage boys — like many ...
Read More about Moore Tornado Relief RAD JAM

Local garage-rock­ers Shi++y/Awesome formed on a whim in 2009, when Guestroom Records co-owner Travis Searle and man­ager Will Muir got ...
Read More about Post Mortem: Shi++y/Awesome’s Final Bow

Chickasha native Travis Linville was 1 of many Oklahoma artists per­form­ing at the Music4Moore fundraiser this past May, as we’ve ...
Read More about Travis Linville at Music4Moore

The city of Norman cel­e­brated its 30th annual Jazz in June music fes­ti­val a cou­ple of weeks ago by shak­ing ...
Read More about Jazz in June 2013 Headliners: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

My cousin and his fiancée cel­e­brated the bap­tism and chris­ten­ing of their infant daugh­ter last Sunday at Saint Thomas More ...
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Texas singer-song­writer Ramsay Midwood trav­elled from Austin with his band to per­form at the Music4Moore ben­e­fit in the wake of ...
Read More about Ramsay Midwood at Music4Moore

The Lumiquest SoftBox III is a small, highly portable soft­box that attaches eas­ily to var­i­ous speed­lights. Deployment it greatly enhanced ...
Read More about LumiQuest LQ119 SoftBox III

In the con­clu­sion to our Skating Polly inter­view, step­sis­ters Peyton Bighorse and Kelli Mayo talk about meet­ing musi­cal heroes, music ...
Read More about Skating Polly Interview & Galleries, Part 2

Skating Polly have been busy. The youth­ful sis­ter act per­formed sev­eral shows at this year's SXSW fes­ti­val, knocked out audi­ences ...
Read More about Skating Polly Interview & Gallery, Part 1

To launch our new col­lab­o­ra­tion with direc­tor Mike Walsh Mercury Photo Bureau was the lat­est guest on his Rev Hi-Fi ...
Read More about Mercury Photo Bureau at Rev Hi-Fi (Video)

In this con­clud­ing part of the Chloës inter­view, we hear the never-before-told story behind crowd-pleaser “Put that Dick Away”, plus ...
Read More about The Chloës Interview & Gallery, Part 3

In part 2 of our inter­view with the Chloës, the ladies talk about the joys and pit­falls of audi­tion­ing drum­mers, ...
Read More about The Chloës Interview & Gallery, Part 2

I spent most of NMF6 run­ning from venue to venue pho­tograph­ing bands, but man­aged to squeeze in a cou­ple of ...
Read More about The Chloës Interview & Gallery, Part 1

Kite Flying Robot sprang from the sin­gu­lar vision of Nikolas “Kite” Thompson. The band itself has seen a rotat­ing cast ...
Read More about Kite Flying Robot Reunion Show & Interview

When we began hear­ing rumors about a Leica project code-named Chronos in late September last year, we assigned a small ...
Read More about Exclusive Scoop: Newest Leica “M” System Camera Announced

This is part 2 of our inter­view with Jonathan Eldridge and Joshua Griffin, who, together, form The Trading Co. an ...
Read More about The Trading Co. Interview & Gallery, Part 2

Blues-rock duoThe Trading Co. belong to a small sta­ble of artists call­ing Old Dog Records their home. Like label ...
Read More about The Trading Co. Interview & Gallery, Part 1

Acoustic duo Bowlsey is mov­ing fast. They granted Mercury Photo Bureau an inter­view before their sec­ond pub­lic per­for­mance, and, in ...
Read More about Bowlsey at the Velvet Monkey: Interview & Gallery

Featuring an ever-chang­ing lineup of local musi­cians (includ­ing more drum­mers than Spinal Tap), the Venditos have been rockin’ Oklahoma City ...
Read More about The Venditos Interview & Gallery

Five-piece fuzz rock out­fit the Kamals (minus guitarist/​backup vocal­ist Brad Nance) dropped by the Bureau in January, fol­low­ing their resched­uled ...
Read More about The Kamals Interview & Gallery

Neo-grunge musi­cians One Gun Solution drove down from Oklahoma City to speak with me ear­lier this month. I met them ...
Read More about One Gun Solution — Interview and Gallery

The word “atmos­pheric” gets tossed around a lot when describ­ing Cleveland-based mr. Gnome. Also “schiz­o­phrenic,” “psy­che­delic,” “weird,” “exper­i­men­tal,” “thun­der­ous,” “dreamy,” ...
Read More about mr. Gnome at The Conservatory, Oklahoma City

In September 2012, elec­tron­ica and exper­i­men­tal world fusion band Beats Antique played the Diamond Ballroom in sup­port of their Animal ...
Read More about Beats Antique Releases New Music Video (Skeleton Key)

Opening for Peelander-Z at Club Dada on Hallowe’en, local favorites Urizen enter­tained the audi­ence at the Deep Ellum nightspot with ...
Read More about Urizen at Club Dada, Dallas — Hallowe’en

According to a copy­right story by News on 6, the most pho­tographed Chinese accor­dion in the world has been returned ...
Read More about Radoslav Lorković’s Best Christmas Ever

Citing Van Halen, Aerosmith, and Guns and Roses among their pri­mary influ­ences, Japanese rock­ers Electric Eel Shock astounded the audi­ence ...
Read More about Electric Eel Shock at Club Dada, Dallas — Hallowe’en Night

I expended prac­ti­cally no effort get­ting Kali-Ra front­man David Goad to talk for an over an hour about music, tech­nol­ogy, ...
Read More about David Goad (Kali Ra) Interview, Pt. 2

David Goad, front­man for Kali-Ra and var­i­ous other musi­cal and per­for­mance projects, recently sat down with us to answer some ...
Read More about David Goad (Kali Ra) Interview & Gallery, Pt. 1

Kill the Reflection front­man Morgan Routt took time out after the band’s recent shows at the HiLo Club, Blue Note ...
Read More about Kill the Reflection at the HiLo Club, OKC

Kali-Ra front-man David Goad dropped by for an inter­view yes­ter­day before head­ing over to Opolis to open for CHUD. After ...
Read More about The Concert That Wasn’t

Singer-song­writer Patty Griffin returned to Norman’s Sooner Theatre for a nearly sold-out per­for­mance in late October. Mercury Photo Bureau was ...
Read More about Patty Griffin and Max Gomez at the Sooner Theatre

I sat down with youth­ful neo-psy­che­delic rock­ers Psychic Milk, after pho­tograph­ing when they opened for Kill the Reflection at Oklahoma ...
Read More about Psychic Milk at the HiLo Club

Hailing from District Z on Planet Peelander, self-described Japanese action comic punks Peelander-Z trav­eled across the galaxy to eat our smiles ...
Read More about Peelander-Z Hallowe’en Show at Club Dada, Dallas

Cleveland County vot­ers may cast their bal­lots before Tuesday at the Cleveland County Election Board, 641 East Robinson, just east ...
Read More about Early Voting, Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Guthrie, Oklahoma — Billed as Oklahoma’s Premier Zombie Race, the 5K Zombie Run unleashed rav­en­ous mobs of the undead onto sprint­ers in ...
Read More about Zombie Bolt 5K — Oklahoma’s Premier Zombie Run

The Goddamn Gallows, who blend rock­a­billy, roots, folk, Americana, and coun­try music “with just enough hard­core and punk […] to ...
Read More about Goddamn Gallows at the Wormy Dog Saloon

The aroma of grilling meat and pota­toes fry­ing in gyros grease per­me­ates the block around the busi­ness, guar­an­tee­ing a packed ...
Read More about The Greek House

I do a fair amount of con­cert pho­tog­ra­phy with the Leica M9-P dig­i­tal rangefinder cam­era. This presents cer­tain chal­lenges not affect­ing ...
Read More about Photographing Concerts with a Leica Rangefinder

Adobe Lightroom is a pow­er­ful tool for man­ag­ing and pro­cess­ing dig­i­tal pho­tos. It can cat­a­logue and orga­nize your pho­tos, auto­mate ...
Read More about Adobe Lightroom 4 Tutorial: A Workflow Example

The Arca-Swiss Monoball P0 Tripod Head, retail­ing for $299 USD, fea­tures a kno­b­less tri­pod head with a three-ele­ment geared lock­ing ...
Read More about Hands on with the Arca-Swiss P0 Tripod Head Panning System & SlideFix QS Quick Release

After all that research, I decided that, besides buy­ing bet­ter lenses for the M3, I was will­ing to fork over ...
Read More about How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Circle of Confusion (Pt. 4 Conclusion)

I spent the next cou­ple of months obses­sively research­ing Leica cam­eras and lenses. I began by down­load­ing the owner's man­ual ...
Read More about How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Circle of Confusion (Pt. 3)

… Then Joe took a trip to Roswell. As I men­tioned in Part 1, Joe rides motor­cy­cles: BMWs, Kawasakis, and ...
Read More about How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Circle of Confusion (Pt. 2)

My best friend Joe Crumley is an inter­est­ing char­ac­ter. He grew up on a farm in west Texas, served his ...
Read More about How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Circle of Confusion (Pt. 1)

Tufte CSS pro­vides tools to style web arti­cles using the ideas demon­strated by Edward Tufte’s books and hand­outs. Tufte’s style ...
Read More about Tufte CSS: An Adaptation