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With his weathered, rootsy songcraft, Bob Childers is considered the godfather of Red Dirt Music, a hard-to-define "I-know-it-when-I-hear-it" blend of country, rock, and folk that Oklahoma claims as its own. Childers was born in West Virginia, but relocated to Oklahoma at an early age. As a young man, he roamed the States, briefly living in places such as California before ...more

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