About this Website

This website is a passion project I created in memory of two departed friends - Fort Worth music promoter, journalist, and Fightin Texas Aggie Leonard A. Callaway II and our very dear friend, the Red Dirt Legend from Tulsa Oklahoma, Brandon Jenkins.

Raised in Tulsa Oklahoma, Brandon spent the first part of his music career searching for his own musical identity - his raw "Tulsa Sound" never quite caring to fit into the early 90s country box dominated by fellow Okies Garth Brooks, Toby Keith, and Blake Shelton. As Nirvana and Pearl Jam reshaped American rock n roll in the pacific northwest in the early 90s, The Farm in Stillwater at that very same moment in time was brewing a new generation of folk-rocking, yallternative Oklahoma songwriters unbound by genre, egos, or the status quo. It was there at The Farm as well as the infamous Yellow House in Stillwater, where Brandon Jenkins found his musical calling, his fellow Red Dirt compatriots, and together they all worked on their craft, dreamed the same dreams, and charted their futures to take Red Dirt music far and wide.

Brandon spent over 3 decades performing music, self-producing 17+ albums, and released over 350 songs into the Red Dirt songbook. If that breakneck pace is shocking, he also performed hundreds of concerts (big and small) each year across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, California, and Europe, playing every honky-tonk, dancehall, saloon, and even a few clubhouse concerts along the way. Touring this way, day in, day out, for over 20 years isn't easy. But this wasnt just a job for Brandon; it was his outlet, his way of staying alive and connected to the people who needed these songs as much as he did.

This is legendary, prolific stuff for a modern day singer/songwriter in the 21st century. When so many songwriters and musicians eventually give up or take shortcuts to get to the top, Brandon stepped on the gas, went the long way, and let his songs do the talking. Brandon gave the world many precious gifts and then in an instant, sadly, in 2018 on Texas Independence Day while in Nashville, Tennessee he was gone.

Brandon Jenkins charted his own path and his dynamic genre-bending music will stand the test of time in a long line of our departed Red Dirt legends. Woody Guthrie, Leon Russell, JJ Cale, Jerry Jeff Walker, Billy Joe Shaver, Steve Ripley, Bob Childers, Jimmy LaFave, Tom Skinner, Jimmy Buffett, Rusty Wier, Charlie Robison, Justin Townes Earle, Keith Gattis, Toby Keith and countless others - all departed souls whom helped shape and mold Red Dirt Music into one of American music's greatest genres.

So pick an album below and let Brandon Jenkins' words and music take you back to Tulsa for a little Red Dirt Revival from one of the GOATS. Thank you BJ. #RedDirtLegendsNeverDie