Various What's This I Hear? - The Sound Of Tulsa 1957-1961 (CD)

(Eleven Light City) 22 tracks (52:11) with 12 page Booklet. From this vantage point, some 60 years later, and with so much water under the bridge, it's hard to imagine just how much of a shockwave the emergence of Elvis Presley shot through the youth of America. This was no less true for the collection of young wannabe musicians who called Tulsa, Oklahoma, their home in the period of time the Tupelo Tornado twisted his way across the USA, leaving a trail of devastation and inspiration in his wake. The Tulsa Sound would become one of the most influential strands of American Rock music in the 1970s, and beyond, and on this collection we take a detailed look at the early years of the artists that would go on to put Tulsa on the musical atlas. Featuring highlights from Tulsa pioneers like Clyde Stacy and David Gates, who would find fame as the lead-singer and chief songwriter for the massively popular Bread, this release also includes, for the first time, all 8 of the songs that the great JJ Cale recorded in his formative years in his hometown, before heading out to LA with other Tulsa friends, in search of glory.