Stitt Ditches “Boys From Oklahoma” for Kid Rock…

If you’re on social media or follow local news, you probably noticed that lots and lots of people ventured up, down, and over into Stillwater this past weekend for one, two, or all three of the much-hyped and ballyhooed “Boys From Oklahoma” concerts.

Featuring a who’s-who collection of Oklahoma Red Dirt acts like Cross Canadian Ragweed, Turnpike Troubadours, Punchy LaRue, and others, it was probably the most hyped concert for white people in this state since The Gentlemen of the Road stopped in Guthrie over a decade ago.

Well, that is, almost all the white people.

While you and your friends were getting drunk and rolling your joints all wrong while singing Oklahoma Breakdown for the 5,000th time, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt was loading 'political pandering' into the metaphorical meth pipe and going full Bawitdaba with Kid Rock in Downtown Oklahoma City.

Check this out:

Yep – that’s right.

As talented, well-respected, homegrown acts like Cross Canadian Ragweed were reuniting for the first time in 15 years to play before tens of thousands in his old stomping grounds of Stillwater, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt rushed to downtown OKC to meet one of the least talented and least respected musicians to ever become famous – Kid Rock.

In case you were wondering what Stitt would do to try and top his dumb call to eliminate the forestry department, I guess you have it.

Seriously, I don’t know if he has a beef with Cody Canada or just doesn’t want to be associated with any turnpike or troubadour, but how could he miss the Boys From Oklahoma for Kid Rock?

It makes about as much sense as everything else he does—none.

It would be like Mayor McSelfie ditching another Kings of Leon show at Scissortail Park to drop mics for Creed at the Criterion!

“Whatever, Patrick. Music is subjective. Kid Rock has sold more albums than all your favorite hipster bands combined! You just don’t like him because he’s mainstream and a proud conservative.”

Hey, I’m not a fan of Red Dirt music either.

For me, it’s kind of like mainstream country music’s counter to alternative’s indie rock—only with more pickup trucks, Copenhagen, and GEDs. That being said, at least I can appreciate and respect the craftsmanship of the genre's musicians, the authenticity of their music, and see why people like it.

But Kid Rock is Kid Rock.

He could denounce Trump, call for a wealth tax on billionaires, and pen an album called Medicaid for All, and—with all due respect to Fred Durst—I’d still probably consider him the worst musician to achieve mainstream popularity and success in my lifetime: a canker sore of modern rap-rock fusion that gives credence to the Southern Baptist theory that secular music was invented by the Devil.

Seriously, in 99.9999999% of the parallel universes out there, Kid Rock would be a token one-hit wonder working at a car wash in Detroit—but we just happen to live in the one where he’s not only a famous musician, but one who our tasteless Governor likes!

Oh well, at least it will provide good fodder to cover when Stitt accompanies lawmakers for a political retreat on the next Kid Rock party cruise:

Stay with The Lost Ogle. We’ll keep you advised.