Tulsa, Oklahoma

Everything Tulsa is known for

261 songs mention this city 190 artists from here

Tulsa, Oklahoma, located in a region of the state known as "Green Country," has a rich and diverse musical identity. The city is home to 190 artists in our collection, including country superstar Garth Brooks, blues legend J.J. Cale, and pop sensation Hanson. Tulsa's musical influence is also evident in the 224 songs in our collection that mention the city, such as "Tulsa Time (Nashville Star; Season 5)" by Whitney Duncan and "Tell Me Something Bad About Tulsa" by Merle Haggard.

Tulsa is also known as the birthplace of the "Tulsa Sound," a musical style that blends blues, blues rock, country, rock and roll, and swamp pop. This distinctive sound emerged in the second half of the twentieth century, with pioneers like J.J. Cale and Elvin Bishop. Historic venues like Cain's Ballroom, established in 1924, have played a significant role in Tulsa's music history, hosting a wide array of acts and being known as the "Home of Bob Wills" and the "Carnegie Hall of Western Swing."

Music in Tulsa

Songs About Tulsa

Saving This Bottle
Diplo
94%
"Out on Cain's Ballroom floor, I didn't see you in the crowd"
Tulsa County Jail
The Kruse Brothers
93%
"Tulsa County Jail"
Oklahoma
Keb’ Mo’
92%
"And over on Greenwood, Archer, and Pine"
Pour Me A Drink (feat. Blake Shelton)
Post Malone
90%
"Now, my baby's goner than the Tulsa wind"
Saving This Bottle
Diplo & Wyatt Flores
85%
"Out on Cain's Ballroom floor, I didn't see you in the crowd"
Tulsa
Braden Jamison
83%
"I just wanna go to Tulsa"
Tulsa Time (Nashville Star; Season 5)
Whitney Duncan
83%
Tulsa Girl
Paul Bogart
83%
Tulsa
Josh Meloy
83%
"I was 18 miles from Tulsa"
Tulsa
Alex Zanetis
83%
Tampa to Tulsa
The Jayhawks
83%
"Tampa to Tulsa"
Tell Me Something Bad About Tulsa
Merle Haggard
83%
"Tell me something bad about Tulsa"
Tulsa Queen
Emmylou Harris
82%
"I heard the train in the Tulsa night"
Tulsa
Keyland
82%
Take Me Back To Tulsa
George Jones
82%
"Take me back to Tulsa"
Tulsa
Kalyn Fay
82%
Don’t Make Me Come to Tulsa
Wade Hayes
82%
"Don't make me come to Tulsa"
Tulsa; Oklahoma
Jeremiah and the Red Eyes
82%
"TITLE"
Take Me Back To Tulsa
Hank Thompson
81%
"Take me back to Tulsa"
West Of Tulsa
Wyatt Flores
81%
"Woke up somewhere West of Tulsa"

Showing top 20 of 261 songs

Artists From Tulsa

G
Garth Brooks
country Pop: 95
J
J.J. Cale
blues Pop: 70
C
Charlie Wilson
r-n-b Pop: 63
K
Kaitlin Butts
country Pop: 57
T
The Gap Band
r-n-b Pop: 57
H
Hanson
pop Pop: 56
J
James Talley
country Pop: 55
E
Elvin Bishop
blues Pop: 52
W
Wilderado
indie Pop: 51
D
David Gates
pop Pop: 51
5
51 June
hip-hop Pop: 51
B
Brandon Jenkins
country Pop: 50
O
Outline in Color
indie Pop: 49
G
GRIND
metal Pop: 48
H
Helen Baylor
r-n-b Pop: 45
T
The Agony Scene
metal Pop: 45
T
The Ivy
indie Pop: 44
U
Ultraspank
metal Pop: 40
T
The Tractors
rock Pop: 40
D
Daniel H. Wilson
other Pop: 39

Showing top 20 of 190 artists

Rivers & Roads in Song near Tulsa

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Tulsa.

U.S. Route 66 17 songs Arkansas River 8 songs Interstate 44 5 songs Will Rogers Turnpike 2 songs Cimarron River 8 songs Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad 3 songs

History of Tulsa

Dixie Alley vs the Great Plains RoadyGoat

1950

There's more than one tornado country out here. On the open Plains, a funnel stands tall against the wheat, visible for miles in dry afternoon air. Drift toward the Mid-South and Southeast, into what folks call Dixie Alley, and the rules change. Higher humidity drops the cloud base low, trees and hills swallow the horizon, and the funnels hide in rain. Many strike at night. A study by NIU's Walker Ashley found that from 1950 to 2005 about 27% of tornadoes were nocturnal, yet they caused 39% of the deaths, and midnight-to-dawn twisters were 2.5 times more likely to kill. The season travels too. It opens early near the Gulf, climbs onto the southern Plains in May and early June, and reaches the northern Plains by July. Same sky, different danger, depending on where you're standing and what time it is.

Mobile homes and unequal risk RoadyGoat

1976

Out here in storm country, the deadliest thing about a tornado often isn't its strength. It's what you're standing in. Mobile and manufactured homes make up only about 6 percent of U.S. housing, yet the National Weather Service notes that 54 percent of housing-related tornado deaths happen inside them. Riding out a storm in one, you're roughly 15 to 20 times more likely to be killed than in a permanent home. The reason is structural. Since 1976, federal wind-zone standards have asked manufactured homes to take roughly 70 to 110 mph winds, depending on region. But a violent tornado can pack winds well over 200 mph. So even a weaker storm, one a stick-built house might shrug off, can be deadly. That's why the safety advice is blunt: if you live in one, get out and find sturdier shelter before the storm arrives.

Rain-wrapped, invisible tornadoes RoadyGoat

1990

Out here in storm country, the scariest tornado is the one you can't see. Wind itself is invisible. A funnel only shows up when the spinning air cools enough to condense, or once it rips dirt and debris off the ground. Some twisters never form a clear funnel at all, and only give themselves away as a swirl of dust at the surface. Worse, in a high-precipitation supercell, sheets of rain can wrap right around the funnel and hide it like a curtain, so all you see is rain and all you hear is a roar. That's exactly why radar warnings matter so much. Doppler radar reads the rotation through the rain, and modern dual-polarization radar can even spot the cloud of lofted debris a tornado throws into the air. The sky may look like nothing but a downpour. Believe the warning anyway, and get low.

Greenwood District - Black Wall Street

1921

Site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre where a prosperous Black community known as Black Wall Street was destroyed over two days of violence.

Cain's Ballroom

1924

Historic dance hall in Tulsa where Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys broadcast their radio show and invented western swing.

Philbrook Museum of Art

1927

An Italian Renaissance villa built in 1927 by oil baron Waite Phillips, donated to Tulsa as an art museum in 1938.

Gilcrease Museum

1949

Founded by Thomas Gilcrease, an Osage oil millionaire, this Tulsa museum holds the world's largest collection of art and artifacts of the American West.

Glenn Pool Oil Discovery Site

1905

The 1905 Glenn Pool oil strike, one of the largest discoveries of its era, made Tulsa the Oil Capital of the World and launched Oklahoma's petroleum industry.

13.7 mi away

Blue Whale of Catoosa

1972

A giant blue concrete whale built by Hugh Davis in 1972 as an anniversary gift for his wife, now one of the most photographed Route 66 landmarks.

14.5 mi away

Things to Do in Tulsa

quirky 12.2 mi away
Blue Whale of Catoosa

A smiling blue whale sculpture you can climb built by a man for his wife. Route 66 classic.
quirky 1.3 mi away
Golden Driller

A 76-foot oil worker statue in Tulsa. Oklahoma's unofficial mascot since 1953.

Everything Near Tulsa

176 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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