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Red Dirt Unplugged

Red Dirt Unplugged Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify

Rolling Stone: Cain’s Ballroom Turns 100 as the Undisputed Home of Red Dirt (Nov. 12, 2024)

Rolling Stone: Cross Canadian Ragweed Are Reuniting — At Least for One Huge Show (Oct. 1, 2024)

The Troubadour Podcast: Talking Wyatt Flores, The Great Divide and Red Dirt Unplugged (Sept. 30, 2024)

Them Dirty Roses Are the Southern Rock Band You’ve Been Waiting For (Sept. 12, 2024)

Book Excerpt | Rolling Stone: Wyatt Flores Can’t Be Your Savior. He’s Barely Saving Himself (Sept. 3, 2024)

Red Dirt and Hill Country Podcast ft. Josh Crutchmer (Sept. 2, 2024)

Rolling Stone: Noeline Hofmann Was an Unknown Rancher. Then Zach Bryan Heard Her Song (August 27, 2024)

Rolling Stone: Wyatt Flores Stops Opry Show to Address Suicide of Fan, Explains “Oh Susannah” (July 11, 2024)

Book Excerpt | Rolling Stone: Dylan Gossett Had a TikTok Hit With ‘Coal.’ He’s Determined to Leave Viral Fame Behind (May 2, 2024)

The New York Times: Wyatt Flores, a Rising Country Artist, Has a Superpower: Tapping Emotions (April 10, 2024)

Cody Canada Is Reviving a Cross Canadian Ragweed Classic Album — But Says the Band Will Never Reunite (Feb. 7, 2024)

Rolling Stone: Zach Bryan Blew Up Oklahoma Music. Southall, Wyatt Flores and More are Right Behind Him (Sept. 26, 2023)

The Motel Cowboy Show

Rolling Stone: Reckless Kelly, Still Kinda, Sorta Retiring, Have Made a Record of Jukebox-Length Songs (Sept. 15, 2024)

Josh Crutchmer: Texas Homegrown Music with Maylee Thomas (Sept. 24, 2023)

98.1 KJUG Interview: Willy Braun and Josh Crutchmer with host Pepper Daniels (Sept. 7, 2023) | Facebook Video | Audio Podcast

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller (Sept. 6, 2023) | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Osiris Media
On the best podcast in the world, the incomparable Rhett Miller talked to Josh about journalism, creativity, and inspiration (and about The Motel Cowboy Show and Red Dirt).

Tulsa World: Q&A about The Motel Cowboy Show (August 5, 2023)

Podcast: Josh Crutchmer Talks Turnpike Troubadours and The Motel Cowboy Show on Hippies and Cowboys (May 5, 2023)

Rolling Stone: Reckless Kelly, Red Dirt Mainstays, Say They’re Retiring From the Road After One Last Tour

Motel Cowboy Show Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify

Red Dirt

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Rolling Stone: The Turnpike Troubadours’ Evan Felker is Happy, Thinking About Music Again (book excerpt)

Rolling Stone: How the Red Dirt Scene is Trying to Survive the Pandemic

Oklahoma Magazine: Chronicling Red Dirt

Facebook Live with Best of Books Oklahoma in Edmond

Wide Open Country (Q&A): New Book ‘Red Dirt’ Traces a Genre from its Oklahoma Origins and Beyond

The Oklahoman: Digging in — Oklahoma journalist Josh Crutchmer gets to the roots of ‘Red Dirt’ music history with new book

Radio interview: KGOU (NPR affiliate) host Katelyn Howard discusses the book and Red Dirt’s Oklahoma roots with Josh Crutchmer

Radio interview: The Rebel (Lubbock) visits with Josh Crutchmer about the upcoming Red Dirt release

Podcast: Josh Crutchmer Joins The Co-Write (Sept. 4, 2020)

Podcast: Hippies and Cowboys featuring Josh Crutchmer (August 18, 2020)

Tulsa World: Dishing Red Dirt: Book by Oklahoma author explores history, performers of Red Dirt music (Story/video)

Facebook Live: Crutchmer with Cody Canada and Scott Evans about the book (1:20 mark)

Music Fog: 15 Reasons this is not a Farewell-to-Cross Canadian Ragweed Story (Also Published in ChicagoNow by The Chicago Tribune)

More from Josh Crutchmer

Rolling Stone: Ryan Bingham Rode the ‘Yellowstone Bump’ All the Way to His Own Festival (Oct. 19, 2024)

Rolling Stone: New York’s Country Renaissance: On the Dance Floor at Honky Tonkin in Queens (Oct. 15, 2024)

We’re Not All Like This Podcast (Talking Oklahoma State Football with Ryan Nanni and fellow guests Carson Cunningham and Danny Gilliland) (Sept. 27, 2024)

Rolling Stone: Corey Kent Was Paving Roads. He’s Poised to Be Country’s Latest Red Dirt Star (Sept. 6, 2024)

Rolling Stone: Randy Rogers Band’s ‘Rollercoaster’ at 20: ‘What Texas Music Should Sound Like’ (August 23, 2024)

Rolling Stone: Muscadine Bloodline Dodged a Mainstream Country Career. That’s a Good Thing (August 17, 2024)

Rolling Stone: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham Is OK Not Being a Superstar. Just Don’t Ask Him to Shut Up (July 22, 2024)

Rolling Stone: We Went Catfish Noodling With Country Music’s Unpredictable Wild Man, Koe Wetzel (July 17, 2024)

Rolling Stone: Country Festival Fatigue? Promoters and Bands Take Stock After Some Fests Go Belly Up (June 16, 2024)

Rolling Stone: Lawrence Rothman, Fluid in Genre and Gender, Is Reshaping the Americana Sound (June 2, 2024)

Rolling Stone: Wade Bowen Is So Texas He Got Troy Aikman to Cameo on His New Album (May 11, 2024)

Rolling Stone: Dasha Wants to Get Country Music Audiences Dancing Again With Hit Song ‘Austin’ (April 24, 2024)

Old 97’s Never Put Out an Album as a ‘Cash Grab.’ But Rhett Miller Says It Crossed His Mind (April 5, 2024)

Shane Smith and the Saints Survived Fires, the IRS, and Actual Snakebites to Become Red Dirt Heroes (Feb. 29, 2024)

Flatland Cavalry Are at the Fore of the Red Dirt Renaissance. Their Ryman Debut Proved Why (Feb. 13, 2024)

Charles Wesley Godwin Mixes Rock Power With John Denver. Country Fans Can’t Get Enough (Feb. 12, 2024)

Shooter Jennings Swore Off Touring to Be a Producer. Then Warren Zevon Got Snubbed (Oct. 10, 2023)

Jason Isbell Says Evan Felker’s Comeback Spurred Him to Join Turnpike Troubadours’ Arena Shows (Oct. 9, 2023)

Rolling Stone Exclusive: Turnpike Troubadours Talk Anticipated New Comeback Album and Real Reason Behind the Breakup

Rolling Stone: Turnpike Troubadours Just Dropped a Bunch of New 2023 Tour Dates

Rolling Stone: Robert Earl Keen Has Played His Final Show. He’s Not Kidding

Rolling Stone: Turnpike Troubadours Reunited to Play Their First Show in 3 Years — Grown Men Cried

Rolling Stone: Exclusive: Turnpike Troubadours Talk Unexpected Hiatus, Newfound Sobriety, and Surprise Reunion

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