Red Dirt Radio Hour

Sundays from 9-10 p.m.
  • Hosted by Brad Piccolo & John Cooper

Broadcasting from the birthplace of Red Dirt in Stillwater, Oklahoma, The Red Dirt Radio Hour plays current and original Red Dirt artists, as well as artists that were influential in it's creation.

Artists heard on the show: JJ Cale, Tom Skinner, Randy Crouch, Willie Nelson, Stoney LaRue & more

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Why American Aquarium Chose to Record Their New Album in Tulsa, Oklahoma

By • May 30, 2018
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American Aquarium will release their seventh studio album, Things Change, this Friday. The album is a personal and a political one, coming on the heels of a band member overhaul, changes in frontman BJ Barham's personal life and the 2016 Presidental election.

John Cooper's Top Albums of 2017

By • Jan 5, 2018

John Cooper, co-host of the Red Dirt Radio Hour, shares his top albums of 2017, in no particular order:

Jared Tyler - Dirt On Your Hands

Andy Adams - Back To Square One

Red Dirt Music Pioneer Jimmy LaFave Dead At 61

By • May 22, 2017
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A key figure in Oklahoma and Texas music has died.

Jimmy LaFave passed away Sunday after a battle with a rare fast-growing cancer called spindle cell sarcoma. He was 61.

Born in Wills Point, Texas, LaFave moved to Stillwater when he was 15 and was instrumental in the early stages of what would become known as “red dirt music.”

An Interview With Blake Parks of Nicnos

By • Feb 17, 2017

Four Oklahoma bands—Nicnos, Taddy Porter, Skytown & Good Villains—are joining forces to play the OklaHomeGrown Music Showcase at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa tonight.

An Interview With Robert Earl Keen

By • Dec 14, 2016
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Robert Earl Keen has been a leading musician in the genre of Texas Country for the past three decades. He has recorded 18 full-length albums and had songs covered by George Strait, Lyle Lovett, The Dixie Chicks, and more. Keen was inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012.

In this interview with KOSU's John Cooper, Keen talks about his new live album, Live Dinner Reunion, playing a concert with Levon Helm, and the so-called differences between Texas Country and Red Dirt music.

An Interview With David Macias of Thirty Tigers

By • Nov 21, 2016

David Macias is a Grammy Award-winning producer and co-founder of Thirty Tigers. The services of his Nashville-based entertainment company have fostered success stories for the likes of Lucinda Williams, Patty Griffin, The Avett Brothers, Low, Ryan Bingham, Flogging Molly, Jason Isbell, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, and many more.

'There Wasn't None Of Us': Jean Shepard, Country Music Trailblazer, Dies At 82

By • Sep 27, 2016

Jean Shepard, one of the first women to find success in country music as a solo act, died Sunday at age 82. Shepard was a feisty, straight-shooting singer who created a career in an industry where she had few female role models.

Parker Millsap On Mountain Stage

By NPR Music • Aug 31, 2016
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Oklahoma native Parker Millsap returns to Mountain Stage, recorded live in Charleston, W.Va. The singer-songwriter was brought up in the Pentecostal church, an experience that provided ample inspiration for his early catalog of songs. Influenced by Steinbeck's dust-bowl narratives, Millsap's religion-laced parables, character-driven stories and relationship tales are performed with the power and conviction of the preachers he witnessed growing up.

WATCH: Parker Millsap on Conan

By • Jul 15, 2016

Last night, Parker Millsap made his national television debut on Conan.

The Purcell native released his third studio album, The Very Last Day, in March. The album has been nominated for Album of the Year by the Americana Music Honors & Awards.

John Prine To Release New Duets Album, 'For Better, Or Worse'

By • Jul 15, 2016

For much of the post-Dylan age, and particularly in such self-consciously cerebral genres as indie rock, contemporary folk and Americana, artists have been more likely to command critical respect for cultivating their songwriting voices than for interpreting songs from others' pens. But John Prine, who was once pegged as a new Dylan, seems to be having a fine time toying with that modern musical hierarchy.

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