April 7, 2022 - Dallas, TX

On the way out of Tulsa this morning, we visited the Outsiders house. We stopped off in Oklahoma City to see the home where Wanda Jackson lived as a teenager with her family when they came back to Oklahoma from Los Angeles. While living in that house, she began to sing on the radio and perform live for Oklahoma City audiences. It was special to be at the site where her incredible landscape-changing musical journey began. We drove through the dusty southern Oklahoma terrain into Texas, and landed at Dealey Plaza. The show was terrific, playing for a lesbian happy hour event, seeing an old friend from high school, and Little Beards performing a fantastic set.

The Outsiders house, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Wanda Jackson's home during her teenage years, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Dealey Plaza, Dallas, TX, a murder most foul


Setlist:
Baltimore Broommaker
To Have and to Hold
I'm Waiting for My Love to Sleep
The Castaway
The Eulogist
The Poor Clare Monastery
Between a Niche and a Ditch
A House After a Hurricane
Sewn Hands
Littleton Mill
Bare Trees, Silver Sky
Showered in the Sunlight
Before Sunrise
Webbed
Dinner Date 
Auburn Aumbry
The Microphone Died
Tied to Nowhere
There's Nothing to Explain
Pinhole Camera
Paper Lanterns

Road music: Wanda Jackson, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino, Eddie Cochran











































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