Time Changes Everything June 25, 2009

Extensive research indicates that the two most famous Oklahoma music figures of the 1930s and '40s, Bob Wills and Woody Guthrie, never met. But what if they had? That's the premise of this world premiering one-act play by former Tulsa World entertainment writers Thomas Conner and John Wooley. Catching Wills and Guthrie on their way up, and again after their respective careers have peaked, Time Changes Everything brings to fascinating life the attitudes they held, especially when it comes to what their music could -- and should -- do. Brad Piccolo and John Cooper, of the trailblazing group the Red Dirt Rangers, portray the two legends, and then join their band for a mini-concert in the second part of the evening.