You could call Wyatt Flores a lot of things: an old soul, a friend of death, the latest Red Dirt music star to shoot out of Stillwater.
Just make sure you put Oklahoman high up in the up-and-coming troubadour’s bio.
“I miss Oklahoma more than folks even realize. I’ve been missing it more than ever just because I know I’m getting to come home. I’ve been all around this country, and it’s beautiful. … But there’s no place like Oklahoma,” Flores said by phone from the road outside St. Louis, Missouri.
“There really is a freedom that I have in Oklahoma that’s just something that I long for. It’s the folks there, ’cause there’s some of the nicest people in Oklahoma. … The rest of the world may wonder why we like it so much, but the state just has a power there that no other place has.”
The Oklahoma native, 22, relocated almost two years ago to Nashville, Tennessee. But the Mexican-American singer-songwriter is coming back to his home state to play a sold-out concert Feb. 16 at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa and a nearly sold-out show Feb. 17 at 7 Clans Casino & Resort in Newkirk before he heads overseas in March on a stretch of European and U.K. dates in support of his 2023 EP “Life Lessons.”