Where’s FourWallsdo?: Oklahoma

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Well, howdy! It was a fun day, meeting Amber and having lunch with her. What a blessing!!! It’s back to the Mother Road today, and maybe I’ll get out of Oklahoma. No promises, no plans (don’t have to be home until next Friday). As we venture along a real road, here’s the next song on the musical road. Oklahoma - The Call NOT the song from the play. This one is about a different kind of wind whipping down the plain…a tornado. Michael Been, the energetic front man for The Call, was from Oklahoma City, so he knew all about tornadoes. I love this band. They were so underrated it’s pitiful. The good thing is that, in the wild and open days of the 80s with MTV and college rock radio, they DID get exposure, enough to establish a good cult following. I got to see them twice, and they were amazing. Michael Been died of a heart attack in Belgium at the age of 60. He was running sound for his son’s band at the time. His son, Robert Levon Been, plays bass and sings with remarkable similarity to his father in tribute and reunion shows The Call perform. Oklahoma Written by Michael Been Recorded by The Call From Reconciled, 1986 I can’t stop, the night’s not gone: