Original image by There Stands the Glass.
K.T. Oslin was among my life partner’s favorite artists in the late ‘80s. I must have heard "Hold Me", "80s Ladies” and “Hey Bobby” hundreds of times during those years. I never complained. While the production applied to her songs was too slick for my taste, Oslin’s salty attitude and convincing twang made her as compelling as her hit-making contemporaries like Randy Travis, Rodney Crowell and Patty Loveless. The ticket stub pictured above reflects Oslin’s popularity in 1991. I paid $22.50 a pop for tickets to a concert she headlined at a 18,000-capacity outdoor venue. Oslin died today.
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I blurt wildly inappropriate things when I’m not raving about artists including Bad Bunny, Blackstarkids and Beatrice Dillon on 90.9 The Bridge’s weekly Eight One Sixty program airing at 6 p.m. CST Tuesday, December 22.
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I review Alaturka’s new album In Concert with KU Ensemble I at Plastic Sax.