By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR Scene Writer on Jun 29, 2009, at 11:00 AM Updated on 6/29 at 11:00 AM
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The Center of the Universe Festival has another headliner.
Quirky, fun indie rocker OK Go will join OneRepublic ...
John Fogerty will perform Oct. 17 at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa.
The concert’s been confirmed ...
The Round Up Boys bring its distinctive brand of Western Swing to Cain’s Ballroom for The Senior Star Roundup , 2-5 p.m. ...
Oklahoma Magazine just released its newest issue, and in it is an interview with award-winning Oklahoma bluesman Watermelon Slim. Good stuff.
Bill Homans was born in Boston 60 years ago. Some 30 years later, half a country away, Watermelon Slim was birthed in a field in Pushmataha County, entering life during the kind of stifling Oklahoma summer that can peel paint from a barn.
Watermelon Slim and Bill Homans may be the same guy, but certainly something profound happened to Homans on that day, when he experienced a heat-enhanced epiphany he compares with the biblical Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus.
Read the full article from Oklahoma Magazine, 
here.
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