Rock 'n' roll rode into Tulsa on a 'Mystery Train,' and local teens turned the beat around to make their own sound.

'Rockin' this joint tonite'

Gambling, drinking, guns and bombs -- Tulsa's rock 'n' roll gigs of the 1950s felt like Wild West shows.

Tulsa's early rockers were black and white, and no one cared - as long as the racial mixing was on the stage.

Tulsa's early radio deejays recall how they got rock 'n' roll on the air.

The tulsa sound

Put that dictionary down: The Tulsa Sound is hard to define but easy on the ears.

Bill Pair was the first Tulsa rock ’n’ roll musician to seek his fortune in Los Angeles in the 1950s.

Wes Reynolds has been all over America -- on and off the rock 'n' roll radar.

Cale, yeah!

J.J. Cale's economy of expression and groove-based song structure are the things many people think of when they hear the term "Tulsa Sound."

Rockin' and reelin' 'em in

Tulsa's first rock 'n' roll DJ swaps fish stories with some of his pioneering protégés.

The Immortals

Cale, Clapton and that sound.

The Tulsa Sound fundamentally changed Eric Clapton's music.