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Author:

Crutchmer, Josh, author.

Title:

Red dirt : roots music born in Oklahoma raised in Texas at home anywhere / Josh Crutchmer.

Publisher:

Back Lounge Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Americana (Music)--United States--History.
Alternative country music--United States--History.
Country musicians--United States.
Alternative country music.
Americana (Music)
Country musicians.
United States.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 261) and index.

Contents:

Foreword / Robin Devin Schoepf -- Introduction / BJ Barham of American Aquarium -- Essential Red Dirt : Tom Skinner -- The farm and Red Dirt's roots -- The godfather: Bob Childers -- Why I wrote this book -- The legacy of Jimmy LaFave -- The Red Dirt Rangers' thirty-year success story -- Garth Brooks and Red Dirt -- The divide -- Cody Canada and Cross Canadian Ragweed -- January 27, 2001 -- The Wormy Dog and Red Dirt's wings -- Boland -- Stoney -- Hold my beer: Wade Bowen and Randy Rogers -- The Braun Brothers' rugged road through Red Dirt -- How the Dirt was spread -- You're gonna be my friend: Jamie Lin Wilson -- A hard question: where are the women of Red Dirt? -- Oklahoma's roots landscape -- Turnpike -- In the thick of it: Medicine Stone 2018 -- Red Dirt roundtable: McClure, Canada, Boland -- The Loose Ends -- Back to the roots: Mike McClure -- The Departed -- Home -- Photo gallery.

Summary:

Red Dirt tells the story of a roots music scene that grabbed a foothold in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and spread across the country. The scene took roots in the late 1970s as an outlet for college-town hippies. The scene gave rise to Garth Brooks, who credits it with helping his early rise to prominence. Later, The Great Divide, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Jason Boland and the Stragglers and Stoney LaRue rose from the scene to become regional stars, including a major record deal for The Divide and Ragweed. They were followed by the Turnpike Troubadours, who carried the scene to its highest heights in the late 2010s. Using exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to the artists themselves, Red Dirt tells their story. The book also explains how key relationships with non-Red Dirt artists like Reckless Kelly, Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen helped Red Dirt gain acceptance and then immense popularity across Texas, which claims a burgeoning original-music scene of its own.

ISBN:

0578694255
9780578694252

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1203971647

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)