Wyatt Flores on What It Means to be From Oklahoma

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Wyatt Flores is a 23-year-old singer-songwriter from Stillwater, Oklahoma, who’s making a name for himself in the Red Dirt music scene, building on the musical legacy of his home state. He grew up on a ranch in a working-class family where he was surrounded by musicians, often hearing them play cowboy songs around a campfire. Wyatt’s debut album, Welcome to the Plains, explores the rough side of growing up in rural Oklahoma, but it also shows a talent for storytelling and a wry sense of humor.

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00:00what does it mean to you to be an Oklahoman? I feel freedom every time I go home. I can drive

00:05for miles in any direction and just feel freedom of being on the plains. You know, it's funny you

00:10say Southern because everyone's like, I don't know what really Oklahoma falls into. Is it the

00:14Midwestern? Is it Texas? You know, and the more that I've traveled around, the more that I realize

00:19that we're all pretty much alike. We could all sit around a fire together. But what makes Oklahoma

00:23so different is the people, the way that we are raised and our upbringing is rough around the

00:28edges. But we're also some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. That's what it means to come

00:31from Oklahoma.

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