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Red dirt (music)

Index Red dirt (music)

Red dirt is a music genre that gets its name from the color of soil found in Oklahoma. [1]

71 relations: Alternative country, American folk music, Americana (music), Audrey Auld-Mezera, Banjo, Bass guitar, Bluegrass music, Blues, Bob Childers, Bob Wills, Brandon Jenkins (musician), Butch Hancock, Cain's Ballroom, Cameron University, Caney, Kansas, Cody Canada, Country music, Country rock, Cross Canadian Ragweed, David Amram, Dobro, Drum kit, Fiddle, Folk music, Guitar, Harmonica, Honky-tonk, Independent music, Jason Boland & The Stragglers, Jimmy LaFave, Joel Rafael, KVOO-FM, Lawton, Oklahoma, Leon Russell, Mandolin, Mike McClure, Music of Mexico, North Texas, Okemah, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Outlaw country, Pantera, Pedal steel guitar, Pride of Texas, Radoslav Lorković, Randy Crouch, Rock and roll, Rock music, San Francisco Sound, Singer-songwriter, ..., Soil, Southern rock, Steve Ripley, Stillwater, Oklahoma, Stoney LaRue, Susan Gibson, Susan Herndon, Texas country music, Texas Hippie Coalition, The Church Studio, The Departed (band), The Great Divide (band), Tulsa Sound, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Wade Bowen, Waylon Jennings, Western swing, Willie Nelson, Woody Guthrie, Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, ZZ Top. Expand index (21 more) »

Alternative country

Alternative country (sometimes alt-country, insurgent country, or Americana) is a loosely defined subgenre of country music and rock music, which includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream country music and pop country music.

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American folk music

The term American folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as traditional music, traditional folk music, contemporary folk music, or roots music.

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Americana (music)

Americana is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States, specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, gospel, and other external influences.

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Audrey Auld-Mezera

Audrey Auld-Mezera (née Audrey Auld) (January 14, 1964 - August 9, 2015) was an Australian American country music touring singer–songwriter.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music named after Kentucky mandolin player and songwriter Bill Monroe's band, the Bluegrass Boys 1939-96, and furthered by musicians who played with him, including 5-string banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt, or who simply admired the high-energy instrumental and vocal music Monroe's group created, and carried it on into new bands, some of which created subgenres (Progressive Bluegrass, Newgrass, Dawg Music etc.). Bluegrass is influenced by the music of Appalachia and other styles, including gospel and jazz.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bob Childers

Robert Wayne Childers (20 November 1946 – 22 April 2008) was an American country-folk musician and singer-songwriter from the state of Oklahoma.

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Bob Wills

James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader.

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Brandon Jenkins (musician)

Brandon Dean Jenkins (June 7, 1969 – March 2, 2018) was an American singer-songwriter and philanthropist.

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Butch Hancock

Butch Hancock (born July 12, 1945 in Lubbock, Texas), is a country/folk music recording artist and songwriter.

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Cain's Ballroom

Cain's Ballroom is a historic music venue located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, built in 1924 to serve as a garage for W. Tate Brady's automobiles.

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Cameron University

Cameron University is a four-year, state-funded university located in Lawton, Oklahoma, that offers more than 50 degrees through two-year, four-year, and graduate programs.

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Caney, Kansas

Caney is a city in Montgomery County, Kansas, United States.

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Cody Canada

Cody Jay Canada (born May 25, 1976 in Pampa, Texas) is an American rock/alt-country musician who currently is the lead singer and lead guitarist of the rock band The Departed since 2010.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Country rock

Country rock is a subgenre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock and country.

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Cross Canadian Ragweed

Cross Canadian Ragweed was an American rock/alternative country band formed in Yukon, Oklahoma in 1994.

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David Amram

David Amram (born November 17, 1930) is an American composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist, and author.

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Dobro

Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitar, currently owned by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Harmonica

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.

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Honky-tonk

A honky-tonk (also called honkatonk, honkey-tonk, or tonk) is both a bar that provides country music for the entertainment of its patrons and the style of music played in such establishments.

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Independent music

Independent music (often referred to as indie music or indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

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Jason Boland & The Stragglers

Jason Boland & The Stragglers is an American Red Dirt/Texas Country band featuring Harrah, Oklahoma, native Jason Boland (lead vocalist and guitar), Brad Rice (percussion), Grant Tracy (bass), and Nick Worley (fiddle and mandolin).

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Jimmy LaFave

Jimmy LaFave (July 12, 1955 – May 21, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and folk musician.

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Joel Rafael

Joel Rafael is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician from San Diego County, California.

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KVOO-FM

KVOO-FM (98.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Lawton, Oklahoma

The city of Lawton is the county seat of Comanche County, in the State of Oklahoma.

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Leon Russell

Leon Russell (born Claude Russell Bridges; April 2, 1942 – November 13, 2016) was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling pop music records over the course of his 60-year career.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Mike McClure

Mike McClure (born July 6, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, and producer from Tecumseh, Oklahoma.

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Music of Mexico

The music of Mexico is very diverse and features a wide range of musical genres and performance styles.

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North Texas

North Texas (also commonly called North Central Texas, Northeastern Texas, and Nortex) is a term used primarily by residents of Dallas, Fort Worth, and surrounding areas to describe much of the northern portion of the U.S. state of Texas.

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Okemah, Oklahoma

Okemah is the largest city in and the county seat of Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, United States.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Uukuhuúwa, Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Outlaw country

Outlaw country is a subgenre of American country music, most popular during the 1970s and early 1980s, sometimes referred to as the outlaw movement or simply outlaw music.

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Pantera

Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas.

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Pedal steel guitar

The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and levers added to enable playing more varied and complex music which had not been possible with antecedent steel guitar designs.

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Pride of Texas

Pride of Texas is the first studio album from red dirt metal band Texas Hippie Coalition.

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Radoslav Lorković

Radoslav Lorković (born September 3, 1958) is a Croatian born and classically trained folk and blues musician, known in particular for his flair on the piano and accordion.

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Randy Crouch

Randy Crouch (born April 1, 1952) is an Oklahoma-based multi-instrumentalist.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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San Francisco Sound

The San Francisco Sound refers to rock music performed live and recorded by San Francisco-based rock groups of the mid-1960s to early 1970s.

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Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.

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Soil

Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life.

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Southern rock

Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music and a genre of Americana.

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Steve Ripley

Steve Ripley (born Paul Steven Ripley, January 1, 1950, Boise, Idaho, United States) is an American recording artist, record producer, songwriter, studio engineer, guitarist, and inventor.

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Stillwater, Oklahoma

Stillwater is a city in northeast Oklahoma at the intersection of US-177 and State Highway 51.

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Stoney LaRue

Stoney LaRue (born Stoney Larue Phillips in 1977) is an American Texas Country/Red Dirt artist.

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Susan Gibson

Susan Gibson was born in Fridley, Minnesota, is a Wimberley, Texas based singer and songwriter who has released four solo albums and tours the nation.

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Susan Herndon

Susan Herndon is an American singer-songwriter from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Texas country music

Texas country music (more popularly known just as Texas country or Texas music) is a rapidly growing subgenre of American country music.

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Texas Hippie Coalition

Texas Hippie Coalition (sometimes stylized "THC") is an American heavy metal band from Denison, Texas, United States.

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The Church Studio

The Church Studio is a recording studio housed in an old church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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The Departed (band)

The Departed (also known as Cody Canada and the Departed) is an American Rock/alternative country band.

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The Great Divide (band)

The Great Divide is an American Red Dirt music group, originally from Stillwater, Oklahoma.

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Tulsa Sound

The Tulsa Sound is a musical style that originated in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States.

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Wade Bowen

Wade Bowen is an American Texas Country/Red Dirt singer from Waco, Texas.

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Waylon Jennings

Waylon Arnold Jennings (pronounced; June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Western swing

Western swing music is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands.

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Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, author, poet, actor, and activist.

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Woody Guthrie

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, one of the most significant figures in American folk music; his songs, including social justice songs, such as "This Land Is Your Land", have inspired several generations both politically and musically.

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Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival is held annually in mid-July to commemorate the life and music of Woody Guthrie.

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ZZ Top

ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_dirt_(music)

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