Red Dirt
Red dirt is a style of country music from Oklahoma that mixes country with folk, rock and blues, named after the state's red soil.
It centers on songwriting and live bands, with electric and acoustic guitars and a rougher sound than Nashville radio country. The scene grew up around the college town of Stillwater, Oklahoma, where the songwriter Bob Childers was a guiding figure. It is closely linked to Texas country across the state line, and many bands are counted as both.
Artists it is known for: Cross Canadian Ragweed, Jason Boland & the Stragglers, Stoney LaRue, Turnpike Troubadours.
- Family
- Country
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Stillwater, Oklahoma
- Also called
- red dirt music
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 5%
About 4,100 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have red dirt among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Red Dirt artists
Zach Bryan
Treaty Oak Revival
Tyler Childers
Cody Johnson
Gavin Adcock
Whiskey Myers
Koe Wetzel
Colter Wall
Wyatt Flores
Flatland Cavalry
The red dirt artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.