Joe Ely News

 
Allentown Morning Call
Butch Hancock, now playing at Fergie's
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
It's been over a decade since the great Texas songwriter Butch Hancock - who along with his pals Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore is one of The Flatlanders – played a solo show in Philadelphia. So that qualifies toight's gig in the upstairs band room at ...
Butch Hancock's music is old time but enduringAllentown Morning Call

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Smooth Tejano: Ruben Ramos comes to Gonzales
The Gonzales Cannon
In 1998, Ramos teamed up with David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos, rocker Joe Ely, country legend Freddy Fender, accordion master Flaco Jimenez, and crooner Rick Trevino to form Los Super Seven. The super group's self-titled CD earned them a ...


 
Carll in Lone Star state of mind
Times Record News
Carll in his formative years listened to Texas singer-songwriters Kris Kristofferson, Steve Earle, Townes van Zandt, Willis Allen Ramsey, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock and Steve Fromholz. "To me, there was an aesthetic ...


 
CMT.com
Pat Green Leads Independent Releases
CMT.com
Green's project includes his rendition of Joe Ely's "All Just to Get to You" along with material by Lyle Lovett, Tom Petty and others. Other new albums include songwriter John Fullbright's From the Ground Up, folk duo Jimmy Gaudreau & Moondi Klein's ...
Interview: Pat Green gets back under covers with “Songs We Wish We'd Written ...NewsOK.com (blog)

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Oh for those dream days of boats
Noosa News
Len with first-up help from his uncle Joe Ely worked from plans to build his eventual fleet of boats under family house across the road - Len and his family still own a house in nearby Elizabeth St. Even in the late 1980s Len would still have his old ...


 
Butch Hancock, Dave Wilson
The Independent Weekly
Though his Flatlanders bandmates Joe Ely (a dynamic live performer) and Jimmie Dale Gilmore (a distinctive singer) tend to get more of the spotlight, the fuel that feeds the legendary Texas band's fire is the songbook of Butch Hancock.


 
The Guardian (blog)
Have you ever seen a less fitting support than Slash's pick for his London show?
The Guardian (blog)
The Clash were experts at winding up their crowd, pitting country singer Joe Ely against the punks, and provoking a riot when they took out electro confrontationalists Suicide in 1978, a riot preseved for posterity on the 23 Minutes Over Brussels ...