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\n\tJason Eady<\/a> just released a record full of original music, but it\u2019s not a record full of traditional Jason Eady country.<\/p>\n \n\tThe singer-songwriter, born in Mississippi but based in Texas for most of his career, is highly-regarded for his old-school country sound, mixing honky-tonk beats and acoustic ballads with aim-for-the-heart lyrics. When Eady recorded Tulsa<\/a> Turnaround<\/em>, however, he threw all that out the window. The 11-track album is Eady\u2019s tribute to the Tulsa Sound \u2014 a scene that mixes folk, blues, and rock that sprang up in the Oklahoma city in the 1960s and Eric Clapton embraced and popularized a decade later.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019m not trying to say too much, or get too much meaning into these songs,\u201d Eady says of Tulsa Turnaround<\/em>. \u201cI just want to let them live and let them feel good and let the music carry it. It\u2019s as much about the music as anything on this one, which is a shift for me. Normally I am a lyrics-first kind of guy.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tEady wrote 10 of the songs on Tulsa Turnaround<\/em> and enlisted Oklahoma native John Fullbright \u2014 who is currently touring with the Turnpike Troubadours playing keys \u2014 to produce the project.<\/p>\n \n\tOn the title track, Eady name-drops Tulsa icons and venues like J.J. Cale, Leon Russell, the Gap Band, and Cain\u2019s Ballroom over a blues riff with choir-like backing vocals. It all leads to a chorus of, \u201cI\u2019m doin\u2019 that Tulsa Turnaround\/Lord have mercy, what a sound.\u201d Written with Ray Wylie Hubbard, it became the first song that Eady recorded for the album.<\/p>\n \n\tBut fans who may assume the album also must include a cover of the old Kenny Rogers and the First Edition tune \u201cTulsa Turnaround\u201d will be mistaken. For one, as Eady points out, that \u201cTulsa Turnaround\u201d is really about an Omaha sheriff, while his puts Oklahoma\u2019s second-largest city front and center.<\/p>\n