12/10 Update - We’ve removed preorder bundles from our website in advance of our event today. We now have wristbands available with purchase in the record store.
We hope you’ll join us in the record store for a special event with Wyatt Flores and his pal Josh Crutchmer! On Tuesday, December 10th at noon, we’re hosting Flores for an intimate performance to be followed by a dialogue between him and Crutchmer touching on the music of and inspired by Oklahoma’s Red Dirt scene. Their conversation will be informed by questions submitted by event attendees, so please contribute to their discussion by emailing your questions to us here. They’ll also be signing copies of their latest works for folks who preorder the Welcome to the Plains album + Red Dirt Unplugged book bundles. Signing wristbands are free with purchase of vinyl + book bundles and CD + book bundles. These bundles are available for preorder on our site here and in the record shop.
Wyatt Flores, the Oklahoma bred musician and songwriter, has had a busy year, releasing both an EP in the spring and his first full length album, Welcome to the Plains, this fall via Island Records. Next week he’s taking on Nashville as he performs at The Opry on Monday, December 9th and then headlines two nights at The Ryman on Friday, December 13th and Saturday, December 14th. We’re very excited he’s making a stop at ‘the other church’ before he heads to The Mother Church!
Like Flores, Josh Crutchmer hails from Oklahoma. He is a renowned music journalist and editor, whose bylines include The New York Times and Rolling Stone magazine amongst many other national and regional publications. He has authored three books, including two on the Red Dirt music scene. Crutchmer has been closely involved with this scene since 2000 and has cultivated relationships with the modern standard-bearers of the scene, as well as its forefathers. His intimate knowledge of Red Dirt extends not just to the artists but to the crew members, sound engineers, bar owners and tour managers behind the scenes whose efforts define what it means to live and work with a love of music.
We can’t wait to watch Wyatt perform in the shop and hear his discussion with Josh! We hope you’ll join us for this very special event. You can preorder Wyatt’s album and Josh’s book as a bundle for a signing wristband in the record store and on our site here now, which also guarantees entrance to our event. Space is limited and wristbands are only available while supplies last.
Wyatt Flores’ Welcome to the Plains
Josh Crutchmer’s Red Dirt Unplugged book