OKIE FROM MUSKOGEE: Music has guided Sawyer's life. Cathy Spaulding, Muskogee Phoenix, Okla. Mon, June 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM UTC. 7 min read. Playing guitar is therapeutic for Galen Sawyer.

Dec. 1—Michael Ragsdale says he's been going to church his entire life, and was in music almost as long. "My parents have a picture of me playing the drums when I was 2 years old," Ragsdale said.

Country music legend Merle Haggard famously recorded “Okie from Muskogee” to push back at city folks who thought his kind backwards, while another country icon, Vince Gill, titled his 2019 ...

Country music icon Merle Haggard played at Hard Rock Live in 2014. Tulsa World Archive ... “His father was the real Okie from Muskogee,” Merle Haggard’s widow, Theresa Haggard, said.

Fifty-three years ago today, on May 22, 1970, Merle Haggard landed at the top of the charts. It was on that date that Okie From Muskogee, the live album that Haggard released in December of 1969 ...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. — The original "Okie from Muskogee" will be enshrined in the city thanks to the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. OMHOF announced Wednesday plans for a bronze statue honoring Merle ...

TULSA, Okla. — Oklahoma's own, Blake Shelton, is coming back to Tulsa on Saturday, and this time he' s bringing a few friends.

FAMILY: Wife, Suzan, two biological children, one foster daughter, four grandchildren. HOBBIES: Playing music, repairing ...

OKIE FROM MUSKOGEE: Music has guided Sawyer's life. Cathy Spaulding, Muskogee Phoenix, Okla. Mon, June 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM ... “My parents gave me a guitar when I was around 5 years old because the ...