All tagged Oklahoma Musician
To quote Oklahoma folk artist, Woody Guthrie, “A song ain’t nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.” Carter Sampson’s songs fit into this mold whether she is trying or not. I know this because I fall into a Carter Sampson rabbit-hole from time to time and I never tire of it. Her live streams during the pandemic shut-down fed my soul as well. The Oklahoma City native pulls elements of country, folk, rock, and blues together to create an Americana sound in every sense of the term. Much like her fellow Oklahoma folk artist, Woody Guthrie, Sampson has always tapped into real-life trials and triumphs. This latest album, Gold, is no different and even more so on a personal level.
Cassie Latshaw doesn’t have your typical background. She grew up on an exotic animal farm near Bristow, Oklahoma and was opening for artists like Ray Price and Sammy Smith before the age of 12. These days she’s a realtor by day and songwriter at night, regularly appearing on stage at well-known venues like the Mercury Lounge in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
March 2020 will be remembered as the month the music stopped. John Calvin Abney was set to tour with his long-time collaborator, John Moreland, to promote his latest record (LP5) when the pandemic shut everything down. That’s when Abney holed up at his current home in California’s Bay Area to begin writing the songs that would become Familiar Ground. He says, “I had written some of the songs before everything went down but some of the songs really took form as I had this surplus of time and lack of tour so I ended up having a lot of mental space and physical space to delve into writing. I also got to workshop some of these songs and hone their edges.”
