I turned 7 years old in the back seat of a 1954 Nash Rambler with my brother and sister. We were on the way west to our new home in Oklahoma. I grew up there, started a family of my own there and began my career in broadcasting and music there. 33 years later I moved to Texas and then 23 years after that to New Mexico but Oklahoma is still where I call home. I have been writing and singing my own songs for the past 30 years and many of them were written in or about my Oklahoma home. I have picked a baker’s dozen to share to celebrate my 30th year of songwriting and my 50th High School Reunion Year. As a reference point for the songs: Our first stop was Tulsa (May 1956) then Bartlesville (September 1956) for the first semester of the 2nd grade. I finished the second grade in Enid (1957) then the summer of 1960 we moved to Tahlequah and that’s where the roots went deep in the flint rock and limestone foothills of the Ozarks. After high ...