Come See Us at Spring Jam for Panhandle Slim Shirt Swap and Coupon

Posted on May 29, 2009 by admin

The annual Spring Jam is tomorrow and this year it features two of the biggest names in Red Dirt music, the Randy Rogers Band and the Eli Young Band. We’ll be hanging with Panhandle Slim at their “Shirt Swap” booth. It’s a great event where you can trade in the shirt off your back for a brand new Panhandle Slim shirt. All the shirts Panhandle Slim gets will be donated to charity. In addition, we’ll be handing out coupons for 20% off Panhandle Slim shirts purchased at our online store in the month of July.

Great music, free shirts for charity, and 20% off Panhandle Slim purchases at langstons.com. You can’t beat it!

See you there.

The Show Must Go On…Rain, Shine or Mud

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Deb

Music, Mayhem, and Mud

I woke up early on Sunday, May 24 and hit the road to Eufaula Cove Ampitheatre for Cross Canadian Ragweed’s 3rd annual Music & Mayhem. This year’s lineup was solid from start to finish. Mickey and The Motorcars, Reckless Kelly, Wade Bowen, Jason Boland, Cross Canadian Ragweed and of course the headliner for this year’s event Gary Allan.

When I arrived at Eufaula Cove there wasn’t a cloud in sight. It was nice and breezy, but all that soon changed about 45 minutes after the gate opened. I was already on my fourth beer and my tent was a boat ride away. I was jamming out to surprise guest Welcome to Silence when I noticed the clouds looming overhead. Within the next few songs the rain hit us like stinging needles. As everyone ran for some cover, I saw people, for the first time in my life, actually scrambling to get to a port-a-pott. After the rain calmed down, Mickey and The Motorcars took the stage. If you are not familiar with them, Mickey is one of a long line of famous Braun brothers like Reckless Kelly. They played all their hits from their album Naïve, “Grow Old”, “Seeds”.

With rain still pouring down, Reckless Kelly took the stage and, like always, showed why they were the 2008 Best Live Band in Austin. Micky Braun even joined his brothers Willy and Cody to sing a few songs. After the Braun clan was done wreaking havoc on a rain drenched and mud caked crowd, it was Jason Boland and The Stragglers turn. It seems to me since Boland went through a serious throat surgery at the end of last summer, his shows since then have been spectacular. Not that they weren’t before, it just seems like he has a reborn passion for what he is doing up there on stage. Performing all his hits he could fit into his set along with some new ones from his latest album, Comal County Blues, but I still wanted more.

By the time it was Wade Bowen’s turn to rock-n-roll, I was caked with the dried up mud I’d been standing in for hours. Gary Allan was delivered and was cool, calm and mysterious.

Cross Canadian finished the night with a rowdy crowd. This reminded me of a concert a few years back with Ragweed, only there wasn’t as much mud throwing this time around. Though the rain drove some of the older Gary Allan fans out of the joint, the “troopers” like myself toughed it out. I even managed to take a few snapshots and not get my phone totally ruined in all the madness:

Well this weekend is yet another music festival but this time it’s just down the street from the Wormy Dog for Spring Jam with Randy Rogers Band and Eli Young Band.

Hope to see you all there.

-Rooster

The Latest and Greatest Two Albums That Are A Must for Any “Country” Music Fan

Posted on May 23, 2009 by Deb

With the 5th annual Spring Jam just one week away, featuring two of hottest rising country music groups at it today, Eli Young Band and Randy Rogers Band, I wanted to give those of you who have not had a chance to check out Randy Rogers Band a couple of reasons why you need to as soon as possible. Now, it is no secret. Anyone close to me or anyone who knows me at all will tell you I am a Randy Rogers Band fanatic. I own all of their albums, plenty of merch, and countless signed artifacts.

With that out of the way, I will get down to the best reasons (albums) why you should pay attention to these guys. The first is their latest album. The self titled record is the sixth album release since the band starting playing music and it is one of their best. The opening song, “Wicked Ways”, is a song about making choices and dealing with the consequences they bring. It catches you from the start with one’s of the industry’s best fiddlers, Brady Black, and keeps on rolling. This is real country music. With tracks “Lonely Too Long”, “Never Be That High”, and “Buy Myself A Chance”, this album debuted on the Billboard Country Music charts at number three, and was the most downloaded country album on iTunes in 2008. The big hit that started a chain reaction of Randy Rogers pandemonium was “In My Arm’s Instead”, which reached the top 20 on the music charts. The album received an abundance of attention with nominations at ACM and CMA awards, as well as winning Best Country Album of 2008 in Playboy Magazine.

That new album is the first reason. Now here is the second: the Randy Rogers Band Live at Billy Bobs disc. The album is hands down their best album. You get to actually get a feel of how amazing they are in concert, and if you have not seen Randy Rogers Band perform live at one of the many festivals around Oklahoma and Texas or missed them on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno or The Late Show with David Letterman, then you are missing out. This album has all the familiar Randy Rogers we have come to love that has garnered them national attention in 2007 with Rolling Stone magazine ranking them alongside such artists as U2 and the Stones in its list of Top 10 Must-See Artists in the summer of 2007. USA Today praised the band for having “loads of grit, swagger and heart.” It starts off right with my two favorite songs “Somebody Take Me Home” and “Down and Out”. This album has all the favorites: “Ten Miles Deep”, “Tonight’s Not the Night”,” Lost And Found” and so much more.

First and foremost, Randy Rogers is a songwriter (something that country music is missing these days). If these two albums have not persuaded you enough to go out and purchase Spring Jam tickets for next weekend, then maybe it’s time you just listen to someone who knows. I will leave you with one of my favorite quotes by Randy Rogers himself “Country music needs a change…and if this ain’t country music, I’ll kiss your ass”

Reckless Kelly Running Wild in OKC!

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Deb

On May 9th, I found myself at the Wormy Dog again for the rescheduled Reckless Kelly show. As far as I knew it was just Reckless Kelly playing, but around 10 there was a band on stage and it was their good buddies Highspeed Hayride, a foursome from around the Texas/Mexico border. Highspeed Hayride have had their share of hits on the Texas Music Charts and I’m hoping they will come back around very soon because they put on a good show.

As usual, the headlining band didn’t come on exactly when expected but delivered none the less. They opened with the crowd favorite “Ragged As The Road”, which was a hit for them off their latest album “Bulletproof”. There hasn’t been an album these guys have put out that hasn’t had at least four or five big hits for them. Nominated as one of the best live act in Texas by the 2009 Lone Star Music Awards, Reckless Kelly showed they know what they’re doing. Don’t forget they’ve got a background that can be dated back to performing on the Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson when they were 11 and 12 years old… not once, but twice.

Known as the wild ones in the music scene no matter where they are, they do everything in full force and everyone got exactly that Saturday night. There was still a line waiting to get in at 12:30a.m. Reckless Kelly kept the crowed going with all their hits: “Sixgun”, “Motel Cowboy Show”, and “Break My Heart Tonight” just to name a few. I don’t think there is a “country music” instrument that Cody Braun can’t play. Braun was nominated for best musician at the 2009 LSM Awards where he pulled out a mandolin, harmonica, banjo, and even stole the mic from his brother Willy to sing “Wild West Windblown Band”. Ending the night with the hand down crowd favorite, “Crazy Eddies Last Hurrah”, they had the entire elbow-to-elbow crowded room screaming the lyrics and going insane making it one of the most enthusiastic crowds I have seen.

If you missed out on this wild west windblown band then you will get two more chances in the next two months with Cross Canadian Ragweed’s 3rd Annual Music & Mayhem at Eufaula, and Country Fever in Pryor. I’m not going to ride off into the sunset this time but take a deep breathe and leave with my favorite Reckless Kelly lyrics…

“Well it sure didn’t take too long
I woke up one mornin’, she was gone
And the note that she wrote didn’t say “Dear John”
It said, “Goodbye, ******, I’m gone!”

She was a home-grown mountain girl
Raised in a different world.
I was a wanna-be rocker,
She was more into Merle.

And I couldn’t see it just wouldn’t work
And now I’m double fisting longnecks
And grapefruit and Stoli
But I’m never gettin’ over Jolie”

- Crazy Eddie’s Last Hurrah-R.K

- Rooster

New Line: 8241 Ranch Shirts and Tops (Coupon Inside)

Posted on May 13, 2009 by admin

This week we’re featuring the new line of 8241 Ranch shirts just added to the online store. Above are some sample pictures (click pictures to check out item pages) of the women’s selection. T-Shirts, Tank Tops, and Burn Out Tees all feature great stylish designs. These are great for going out and hanging out.

8241 Ranch also offers children’s clothing (see pics below). Cute and fun, these children’s t-shirts, rompers, and dresses will add some rustic western attitude to your child’s wardrobe. We can’t guarantee that they’ll help avoid the “time to get dressed” melt down, but they will certainly make it more fun once you’ve finally gotten them ready to go.

For this week’s blog special, we’re taking 10% off all 8241 Ranch shirts. Just use coupon code blog051409 at checkout to have the discount applied to the 8241 Ranch shirts in your order. Coupon Expires 05/21/09.

Ryan Bingham and The Dead Horses – Mescalito

Posted on May 12, 2009 by Deb

Ryan Bingham - Mescalito

To get everyone geared up for the Ryan Bingham and The Dead Horses show at the Wormy Dog Saloon on May 21st, I popped in Ryan Bingham’s new album… well, kinda new album. Released in October of 2007, Mescalito is his first album unless you are lucky enough to get your hands on “Dead Horses”, an album that was a limited release from LoneStarMusic in 2006 and is no longer available.

I first was turned onto Ryan Bingham seeing them perform live on Conan O’Brien and came across Mescalito digging through the KKNG music vault in 2008. I can’t think of anything that isn’t on this album. From banjo’s to accordion’s, this album has an array of instruments. The crazy thing is this album was a coin flip away from not even happening at all. Mescalito has gotten raves from the like of Rolling Stone and a three page feature in the Los Angeles Times and another performance on The Tonight Show.

The album grabs from the beginning with the track “Southside of Heaven”. It’s hard to describe the feeling you get with this track. It’s that feeling you get when you are riding down the road on a peaceful evening, catching the wind in your hands I guess. It keeps going to with “Otherside” and his first radio single “Bread and Water”. After listening to “Baracho Station”, if you don’t feel like a troubadour, a modern day “outlaw”, then you made need to have your ears checked. Mascelito is nothing short of genius. The album grips you and makes you want to hit the road like a “traveling jone’s”.

I look forward to his show. It will be the first live performance I will get to see of this bull riding, Spanish speaking, modern day outlaw. Bingham will also be performing at Country Fever in June as well. This is an album you don’t have to put much thought to in buying it. Just do it and thank me later. It should at least tide you over until Roadhouse Sun comes up out on June 2nd.

Rooster

Notable Upcoming Red Dirt Shows

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Deb

CAN YOU FEEL IT?! Summer is almost here which means plenty of outdoor music festival and concerts to check out. Here are just few notable ones for the month of May.

Reckless Kelly 5/9 Wormy Dog Saloon
Shooter Jennings 5/14 Wormy Dog Saloon
Ryan Bingham 5/21 Wormy Dog Saloon

CCR’S MUSIC AND MAYHEM CONCERT FEATURING GARY ALLAN
5/24 Eufala Cove Amphitheater

Bart Crow Band 5/29 Wormy Dog Saloon

5th annual Wormy Dog Spring Jam featuring Randy Roger’s Band and Eli Young Band
5/30 Parking Lot W@ Walnut St. Bridge in Bricktown

20% Off Corral Boots

Posted on May 6, 2009 by admin

Women's Cognac Vintage Lizard Overlay

Men's Distressed Goat with Bone Lizard Inlay

We are proud to have recently added Corral Boots to our online store. As our selection of cowboy boots online continues to grow, Corral Boots offers incredible stylish boots for the vintage minded. Exquisite inlays and exotic skins and leathers combine to make Corral Boots some of the most unique boots on the market today. They are perfect for both the every day boot wearer and anyone wanting to add some vintage western flair to their wardrobe. We currently have 10 women’s and 3 men’s styles to choose from and hope to be adding more in the future based on the response of the initial selection.

As a bonus, our blog readers can grab some Corral Boots this week for 20% off. Just enter coupon code blog050609 at checkout (Coupon Expires 05/13/2009). Combined with our free returns on all footwear promotion, this is a great chance to try out these truly special boots.

Shiner Bock Celebrates 100yrs in Stoney style

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Deb

Stoney Larue at The Wormy Dog Saloon

I was back home at my old stomping grounds this last week for Shiner Bock’s 100yr celebration at The Wormy Dog Saloon for a FREE show. That’s right a free show and this was a show not to miss.

The night started off with great openers Daryll Lee Rush and The Dirt Drifters who know how to put on a show. Amongst the elbow room only crowd and the rowdy fans waiting in line to get even with each other at midnight, I sat and watched Stoney do what he does best and belt out one great song after another. He covered Norman Greenbaum with ease. Stoney LaRue and The Arsenals played all the crowd favorites “Empty Glass”,”Down in Flames”, “One Chord Song” and the huge hit for him everyone in the place knew. There’s wasn’t a soul not dancing or singing along myself included to “Oklahoma Breakdown” (written by longtime Oklahoma music scene icon, Mike Hosty of the Hosty Duo).

Stoney grew up listening to his father play bass and after watching this show I don’t think there’s anything else Stoney wants to do. His music and live shows deliver every time. Stoney fired up the crowd playing some new songs that are coming out on his new album. I got goose bumps just thinking about it. If you have a chance to hear him cover a Willie Nelson song it’s as though Willie himself is there singing. Amazing. So far hands down my favorite show from start to finish that Stoney LaRue and The Arsenals have done.

This week I get to jump on the wicked twisted road with Reckless Kelly so stay tuned for that. In the meantime go check out some of Stoney LaRue and the Arsenals live performances on youtube or at stoneylarue.com and wipe the tears from your eyes. He’ll be back soon for Country Fever.