The Red Dirt Rangers have been carrying the banner and “spreading the gospel” of Red Dirt music since 1988 taking it from Stillwater to cities and towns from coast to coast and border to border as well as European tours and cities around the globe. It all began in a two-story, five- bedroom, funky old place called the Farm.
Ben Han, John Cooper, and Brad Piccolo became an integral part of the Farm’s musical brotherhood, trading songs and licks with the likes of the late and legendary Jimmy LaFave, Tom Skinner, and Bob Childers and today still, with Red Dirt icon and bandmate Randy Crouch. As Rangers mandolinist-vocalist Cooper has noted, “The Farm was as much an attitude as a physical structure. It allowed a setting where freedom rang and all things were possible. Out of this setting came the music.”
The Red Dirt Rangers continue to carry the torch for Red Dirt music: that funky mix of Americana meets Rock and Roll meets Woody Guthrie and Bob Wills. Thomas Conner of the Tulsa World says, “The Rangers always have epitomized and expanded on the Oklahoma red dirt sound – the elusive stew of country, folk and whatever else is laying around…”
