Checking out this week’s Texas Music Chart, we find at least four Oklahoma musicians/bands in the Top 20, er, 21:
Jason Boland and the Stragglers at #3
Ty England at #4
Stoney Larue at # 5
and Brandon Jenkins at #21, down from #20 last week, but remember –his CD doesn’t even release until tomorrow. Stay tuned!
Who are these people and why are they saying these things about our beloved Oklahoma music? Chet Flippo is a highly regarded music journalist with a long career, so it was as surprising as it was dismaying to see such a lazy, uninformed, inaccurate dismissal of our Oklahoma music community. His “research” consisted of
a) consulting the Red Dirt entry in Wikipedia,
b) calling his Austin friend Joe Nick Patoski (who evidently thinks Cross Canadian Ragweed is Alabama), and,
c) for some reason, contacting a bar owner in, er, Missouri, for his opinion. Missouri?
Evidently, no one from Oklahoma, where Red Dirt music was born and has evolved for decades, was deemed worth consulting.
Click the link to read his comments.
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