Members of The Ozark Mountain Daredevils certainly weren’t blue after their single “Jackie Blue” hit #1 on the music industry’s cha-ching chart. The song stayed at that spot for two weeks. “Jackie Blue” was the second chart topper for the Missouri musicians, following “If You Wanna Get To Heaven.” Based upon content from the book …
Have you given going green the green light? Then have we got the perfect event for you – the annual Earth Day Music and Sustainability Festival on Saturday April 22 in Springfield. You won’t believe the iconic Missouri band that’s been lined up to headline!
Wildwood is one of the last remnants of this piece of true Americana, even pre-dating Route 66. So do yourself and your family a favor and give them this iconic experience to remember for the rest of their lives.
Springfield’s good old boys got to sing and sing and sing.
It had been forty years since I had seen the Ozark Mountain Daredevils play. When I was in college in Kansas City in the early 1970s, my girlfriend and I would go to their shows at a converted roller-skating rink called Cowtown Ballroom. My girlfriend and I got married, we moved to California, had kids …
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