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Ole Red’s Doghouse in Tishomigo, Okla. rocked the roof off the house with Lone Star Skynyrd, a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band, and Brandon Walker on April 30, 2022. Tom Stewart -
Brandon Walker rocked the house southern-style at Ole Red's Doghouse. Tom Stewart
Lone Star Skynyrd, a cover band for the classic rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd, played at Ole Red’s Doghouse in Tishomingo, Okla. on April 30, 2022. The Saturday night event also included Brandon Walker, the opening act.
The event was aptly named “the Southern Rock Party” and rock the house is exactly what they did. Any time a party is held at Ole Red’s Doghouse is reason enough to follow the main street path in Tishomingo to the welcoming doors of the venue. Anyone who loves country music would agree that southern rock music is as country as it gets.
In the Texoma area, most old AM and FM radio stations included both country and rock in its broadcast collection and most folks considered it one genre. Even though there weren’t many stations for the listeners, many remember loving the music. This event included all the songs that one may have heard in the old school days minus the squelching of a bad signal or lack of a noise reducer in the truck radio connection.
Brandon Walker opened the event with an acoustic guitar that was anything but simple. His song selection set the mood for any southern rock event but as for this one, he was the rocker.
Walker performed some classic rock songs including a Three Dog Night song with the appropriate lyrics, “Well I’ve never been to Heaven, but I’ve been To Oklahoma.” Walker asked the crowd to sing along but the fans were already joining in, and one could barely here him ask.
What is cool is the song was written by Oklahoman, Hoyt Axton who wrote songs that also tied southern rock and country together so tightly that they seemed as one genre. Walker also performed a song recorded by Queen in 1978, “Fat Bottomed Girls.”
This song that contributed to the blowing of many car radio speakers, luckily the sound equipment at Ole Red’s was more than capable of handling the volume. At one point, Walker paused and politely asked the crowd if he could do a selfie picture with them. What he said after the question took many by surprise.
“This is the largest crowd I have ever played for,” Walker said to a stunned crowd. Many fans believed Walker has played many sold-out shows.
The grand attraction was the Dallas-based band, Lone Star Skynyrd, who is dedicated to accurately replicating Lynyrd Skynyrd’s band - a southern icon in rock music. Lone Star Skynyrd does such a good job of this mission that at any point one would think they had stepped back in time to an event that featured the actual band.
The main event band performed all the major hits of Lynyrd Skynyrd including “Simple man,” “Gimme Three Steps,” and the memorable “Free Bird.” Needless to say, the crowd went wild.
Folks where dancing, singing along, and even rocking out on the authentic sound. The acoustics helped the band get their message across that being authentic. The cool part about the crowd was the eclectic mix was so much like it was back in the day when Southern Rock bands of the period played all over Texoma. A quick glance around the crowd revealed attendance well into the hundreds and apparently everyone kept their excitement to a manageable state as disorderly conduct was not seen.
Southern Rock is nothing new to Texoma, but it is always nice to hear a fairly new band perform classic hits and nail the sound note for note. This was the case Saturday in Tishomingo with Walker and Lone Star Skynyrd.