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This seasoned group of Tulsa musicians has been playing together live for a few years, but their new self-titled album is their first as a band. Recorded as live cuts at Black Box Studio and released in January on Tulsa’s nonprofit Horton Records label, "Saugeye" showcases several original tunes, along with covers of songs by acclaimed singer songwriter, Malcolm Holcombe, and several talents who are no longer with us, such as Tulsa musician and luthier Dixie Michell, Red Dirt legend Brandon...

Go ahead and call Saugeye “old fashioned.” Rather than take offense, the Tulsa-based cooperative, led by soulful singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and hobbyist fisherman Jared Tyler, would almost certainly see it as a compliment, with their warm, folksy self-titled debut LP a bountiful harvest of jubilant, yet occasionally wistful, Americana. Meshing with a spry, relaxed ease throughout, Tyler and fellow collaborators Seth Lee Jones, Jake Lynn, and The Tractors’ Casey Van Beek jam...