(9/8/08) Pop rock fans will want to mark their calendars for the release of the new Colourmusic album,  f, monday, orange, february, venus, lunatic, 1 or 13, sure to be a fountain of psychedelic harmonies, unexpected progressions, and quirky Great Plains insight. Catch a preview at World's Fair Records. (8/26/08) Oklahoma musicians are all over the new Little Feat disc, Join the Band (429 Records).Vince Gill teams with Sonny Landreth on "Dixie Chicken," Brooks and Dunn weigh in with "Willin'", and Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" gets a new spin on the album of redone Little Feat faves. (8/15/08) Award-winning songwriter, Darrell Scott (Garth Brooks, Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill), releases a collection of songs that inspired him to become a songwriter.  Included with covers by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Guy Clark, Oklahoma's own Hoyt Axton is featured by Scott who performs "The Devil" from Hoyt's 1976 album, Fearless (A&M). (8/3/08) Shawnee-based folksinger, Samantha Crain, along with her band, The Midnight Shivers, are really starting to garner a lot of attention in the roots-rock world. About to embark on a nationwide tour in support of her new EP, Confiscation, Crain is turning heads in both critical and industry circles who hear and see her as an important force brewing. (7/21/09) Want the real honky tonk? Check out Austin's Heybale!, led by an Oklahoma City dude, Gary Claxton, on vocals and rhythm guitar.  According to a press release, Claxton has been singing in clubs around California, Nashville, and Texas for the past twenty years. His band is made up of some extremely notable players, such as pianist Earl Poole Ball (Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Gram Parsons, and Oklahoman Stoney Edwards), and Red Volkaert who was Merle Haggard's featured guitarist in the 1990s, and has been recognized both critically and by the industry for his Telecaster mastery. You know you want to hear it! (7/17/08) Catch The Flaming Lips honoring The Who, Thursday, July 17th at 8 central on VH1. (7/1/08) The Grammy-nominated powwow drum group, Young Bird, releases its 2008 CD, Faith, Loyalty & Love. (6/30/08) Bartlesville's David Abeyta lays down some more solid guitars on Reckless Kelly's new CD, Bulletproof (Yep Roc). (6/22/08) Another piano player from Tulsa is hitting the national scene with The Belleville Outfit. Catch Connor Forsyth's keyboard work on the alt-country band's new indy album, Wanderin'. (6/3/08) With themes based on his recovery from bone cancer, Wayman Tisdale's new CD, Rebound, hits the streets with his usual perfect brew of smooth jazz. Along with gospel tinges courtesy of Marvin Sapp, Toby Keith  fans will want to check out the collaboration with Tisdale on Barry White's "Never Gonna Give You Up". (5/30/08) Another relatively new Oklahoma band just making waves on the national scene. Hailing from Tulsa, check out The Effects. (5/28/08) Heard about Okemah's Shawna Russell yet? Chances are you will before too long. See and hear the story www.shawnarussell.com. (4/21/08) Another red-dirt style artist with Oklahoma ties, singer/songwriter John Amos gets some help from Lloyd Maines and Kevin Welch on his 2006 CD, Bending the Light (Froggiestyle Music), now being re-serviced to radio to support John's continued touring.