In 2017, Jimmy LaFave accepted the inaugural Restless Spirit Award at Bob Childers’ Gypsy Cafe in Stillwater. Not long after, he succumbed to a battle with cancer. The following spring, Red Dirt Relief Fund collaborated with Jimmy’s partner and some of his longtime friends to create this contest as a catalyst for young and emerging songwriters in Oklahoma. The hope was that Jimmy’s legacy could be, in part, passing on the opportunity he got in Stillwater decades before….