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Never Say Never

Never Say Never Playlist: Apple Music Coming Soon | Spotify

Americana Highways: Interview with Josh Crutchmer (April 23, 2025)

Rolling Stone: Cross Canadian Ragweed Celebrate Resilience and Red Dirt at Massive Oklahoma Comeback Concert (April 11, 2025)

Rolling Stone: ‘No Bullshit, No Lag’: Why Turnpike Troubadours Wasted No Time in Dropping Surprise New Album (April 11, 2025)

Rolling Stone: Jason Boland, Red Dirt Forefather, Continues to Break ‘One Law at a Time’ on New Album (March 22, 2025)

Never Say Never Appendix: Coming Soon

Red Dirt Unplugged

Red Dirt Unplugged Playlist: Apple Music | Spotify

Wyatt Flores: The Road to Live at Cain’s Ballroom (Mini-doc that includes Josh Crutchmer)

2004 Oklahoma State University Winter Commencement: Inside OSU Interview | Morning Ceremony | Afternoon Ceremony

Support Charlie McCormick’s Red Dirt Documentary (GoFundMe)

Rolling Stone: Jason Scott & the High Heat Light a Red Dirt Fire on New Album ‘American Grin’ (March 28, 2025)

Rolling Stone: Josh Meloy is a Rising Red Dirt Star. He’d Rather be Playing Basketball (Feb. 25, 2025)

Rolling Stone: Cross Canadian Ragweed Expand Reunion Concerts to Texas: ‘We’re Going to Keep Going’ (Feb. 11, 2025)

KOSU Radio: Songwriters and Tour Riders Podcast with Josh Crutchmer (January 28, 2025)

Rolling Stone: Cross Canadian Ragweed Make Surprise Reunion at Mile 0 Festival (January 24, 2025)

Rolling Stone: The Best Music Books of 2024 (including Red Dirt Unplugged)

Rolling Stone: J.R. Carroll Plays Keys for Zach Bryan. His Debut Album Announces Him as a Solo Artist to Watch (December 7, 2024)

Wyatt Flores and Friends Podcast: Guest Josh Crutchmer (Dec. 10, 2024)

Ten Year Town Podcast with Tony Cartwright: Guest Josh Crutchmer (Dec. 3, 2024)

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)

Red Dirt Unplugged Appendix: Wyatt Flores and Friends Podcast | Wheels Off with Rhett Miller | Americana Podcast with Robert Earl Keen | Amerikinda Podcast with Vandoliers | Cocaine & Rhinestones | The Co-Write | Ten Year Town

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

The Red Dirt Spotify Playlist

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: Ian Munsick Is Emphasizing the ‘Western’ in Country & Western Music (April 20, 2025)

Rolling Stone: Being Trans in Country Is Dangerous. It Didn’t Stop This Singer From Coming Out (April 18, 2025)

Rolling Stone: Ellis Bullard Is the New Honky-Tonk Singer That Country Fans Need to Hear (April 6, 2025)

Rolling Stone: Charley Crockett Is Taking Texas to the World (April 1, 2025)

Rolling Stone: Josh Meloy Is a Rising Red Dirt Country Star. He’d Rather Play Basketball (February 25, 2025)

Rolling Stone: Courtney Patton Was Half of a Texas Music Power Couple. Their Divorce Shaped Her New Album (February 15, 2025)

Rolling Stone: Evan Honer Had a Viral Smash With a Tyler Childers Cover. Now His Songs Are Blowing Up (February 1, 2025)

Rolling Stone: This Emo Country Singer Is Tapping into Your Pain (January 13, 2025)

Rolling Stone: Lowdown Drifters Left Trucking Behind, but Not The Road (January 6, 2025)

Rolling Stone: ‘The Outsiders’ Musical: Meet the Americana Duo Behind the Grammy-Nominated Score (December 26, 2024)

Rolling Stone: It’s Cody Johnson’s Country Music. We’re All Just Living in It (November 20, 2024)

Rolling Stone: Robert Earl Keen Swore He Was Retiring. Instead, He Got Sober and Returned to the Road (November 19, 2024)

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: 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 ReunionApril 1

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