The Oklahoma Music Corridor of Fame introduced that it is going to be inducting 4 deserving and well-respected bands/musicians into the Oklahoma Music Corridor of Fame. This newest class of inductees shall be honored and introduced their awards on the opening night time (Thursday, April 10th) of the “Boys From Oklahoma” live performance/occasion in Stillwater, Oklahoma on the Boone Pickens Stadium on the Oklahoma State College campus.
Stillwater is the right setting for the presentation being the birthplace of the Pink Filth music style the place many Oklahoma musicians and inductees started their music careers. Together with Turnpike Troubadours who’ve already been inducted, all 4 inductees shall be on the stage for the 4-night occasion that bought out in a mere few hours. www.okmusichall.com
Musicians being inducted in 2025
Cross Canadian Ragweed-Fashioned in 1994, Cross Canadian Ragweed is a wildly influential indie nation rock band from Stillwater who dominated the touring circuit for over a decade amassing hundreds of thousands in touring income and sharing payments with a few of the largest names in music. Generally known as one of many bands who helped begin the “Pink Filth” music motion, the band consists of Cody Canada, Grady Cross, Randy Ragsdale and Jeremy Plato. They’d a variety of charting hits together with “17,” “Alabama,” and “Anyplace However Right here.” In Could of 2010 they introduced they have been taking a break from touring and performed their remaining present collectively in October 2010. In September of 2024 they introduced a reunion present alongside different Oklahoma musicians and buddies, Turnpike Troubadours, The Nice Divide, Jason Boland and the Stragglers and Stoney LaRue appropriately referred to as “Them Boys From Oklahoma.”
Jason Boland and the Stragglers – In 1999, with the discharge of Pearl Snaps, Jason Boland and the Stragglers grew to become one of the crucial profitable bands within the Pink Filth and Texas nation music scene. They launched their first “reside” album, Reside and Lit at Billy Bob’s Texas in 2004. Excessive within the Rockies was one other hit album that was recorded over 4 days of exhibits, and Reside from Cain’s Ballroom was launched in June 2024. Their idea album titled The Mild Noticed Me was produced by Shooter Jennings, son of nation music artist Waylon Jennings. Recording ten studio albums and three reside albums has helped to propel them to be one of the crucial sought-after bands working at present.
The Nice Divide –The Nice Divide is without doubt one of the most iconic bands from the Pink Filth music scene that has impressed the brand new generations of musicians for a lot of, a few years. They have been the primary band to convey the Pink Filth sound to a nationwide viewers once they signed to Atlantic Information within the late 90’s. After a 20- 12 months hiatus, the band reformed and recorded their first album collectively after 20 years referred to as Windfall. The album garnered crucial acclaim and boasted 5 consecutive #1 hit singles in Texas. The band made their Grand Ole Opry debut in 2024 and carried out on the hallowed stage of the Ryman Auditorium. Turnpike Troubadours and younger phenom Wyatt Flores cites The Nice Divide as a key affect.
Stoney LaRue – For greater than 20 years Stoney LaRue has traversed the nation taking part in bought out exhibits that includes the kinds which have helped to make Pink Filth music a properly –recognized style. He has bought out greater than 200 exhibits per 12 months virtually repeatedly and has had albums chart on iTunes and Billboard and has had movies featured on CMT. To this point Stoney has bought greater than one million albums and singles. He has carried out duets with lots of the largest names in nation music resembling Miranda Lambert and Lee Ann Womack and has carried out on the stage on the famend Grand Ole Opry. In the course of the early days in Stillwater, Stoney, Cody Canada, and Jason Boland have been roommates working and residing within the epicenter of the Pink Filth explosion.
Government Director of the Oklahoma Music Corridor of Fame, Tony Corbell, regularly speaks typically in regards to the quantity of musical expertise within the state. “It’s virtually overwhelming what number of nice musicians, singers, sidemen, help of us, songwriters, sound and recording engineers are right here,” says Corbell. The president of the Corridor of Fame’s Board of Administrators, Mr. Boone Mendenhall, himself a preferred singer and songwriter, says “I grew to become a guitar participant due to Jason Boland and Cody Canada as I listened to them time and again once I was younger. It made me wish to observe this ardour for music.” He added how a lot all 4 of those artists being celebrated have impressed his and lots of different’s careers.
Since 1997 The Oklahoma Music Corridor of Fame has inducted greater than 144 members. Mates of Oklahoma Music labored with the Oklahoma Legislature, and in 1999, lawmakers created the Oklahoma Music Corridor of Fame, naming it a spot to honor, acknowledge and pay tribute to Oklahoma musicians and our wealthy music heritage. Via the work of a whole bunch of volunteers over time, the Corridor has established a nationwide and statewide fame as a spot to take pleasure in and expertise music
