Kicking off the 21st annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, Bill Lewis brought his solo troubador act to the basement of the Brick Street Café on 12 July at 11:00 A.M., two days before Woody’s birthday. […]
Skating Polly: The Make It All Show Tour Kickoff
Returning to the scene of their very first show, former Okies Skating Polly played to a sold-out house at OPOLIS on Saturday. The show was the first stop in a 15-city tour promoting the release of their fifth full-length album The Make It All Show. Vice Magazine calls it “rip-roaring,” […]
Tea with Tyson Meade (Interview & Gallery)
On 26 May, central Oklahoma felt an earthquake. The vibrations were from the needle dropping on Godfather of Alt-Rock Tyson Meade’s new long player, Robbing the Nuclear Family. The 55-year-old rocker played piano and sang the entire album to an attentive audience at historic music venue VZD’s Restaurant and […]
Walter
Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, my friend Mark Campbell lost custody of his therapy dog, a cairn terrier named Okra. He later adopted a new therapy dog, Walter, a rescue Pekingese. Walter sat for me last year after Mark asked me to take his portrait. I had […]
Wanette, Oklahoma
This past Independence Day, my best friend and photographic conspirator Joe Crumley and I drove to see the abandoned Gandini Circus camp in Edmond. It was a great dissapointment — most of the structures are gone, and overgrown greenery obscured the rest, making it unsuitable to photograph. We decided to go south to a ghost… Read More …
Tuttle, Cordell, Mountain View, & Anadarko
On the same weekend that Joe and I travelled to Roosevelt, we stopped to photograph several other small towns. Our first stop was Tuttle, where I saw this granary next to the railroad tracks. I also took a shot of it with a Leica IIIf, but forgot to pull out the collapsible lens, so it’s… Read More …
Who Is Evan Jarvicks? An Interview & Gallery
Jarvix. The man. The musician. The mystery. Cynics call his music twee. The less jaded and more generous call it sensitive and bittersweet. Underneath all the lyrics flows a melancholy current blended with self-deprecating humor. Evan Jarvicks came by the studio last week […]
Benefit Concert for Sprint4Sarcoma 5K & 1M Fun Run
Friends and family of 25 year-old Norman resident Dayna Cannon gathered at the Deli on Thursday for a benefit concert featuring the Tequila Songbirds. […]
The Wurly Birds Present: A David Bowie Tribute
Unless you’ve been trapped at the bottom of a well for the past 2 weeks, you know the great David Bowie is dead. Musicians all over the country, including Bruce Springsteen (whom Bowie twice covered) […]
The King of Queen
Featuring the music of the late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, Friday and Saturday’s performances of The King of Queen played to sold out houses at Oklahoma City’s The Boom.