Joe Ely has done a pretty good job of keeping track of his movements. "I got my first band together right at 50 years ago when I was 14 in Lubbock, Texas," Ely said in a phone interview on the eve of ...

Joe Ely has been playing music for over 40 years and since the late '70s the Texan's roots music mixed everything from folk ballads to square-one rock and roll. He has toured with The Clash and the ...

So states Joe Ely in the Driven to Drive album press, penned with typical panache by Texas music’s homegrown Homer, Joe Nick Patoski. Road songs all recorded at home – that sounds like a Butch Hancock ...

Texan Joe Ely has lived by his wits enough to learn a few things. “I realized it was virtually impossible to starve to death in America if you knew how to ask properly for some crackers and a glass of ...

Fifty years after he started making music with Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Joe Ely in Lubbock, Butch Hancock is ruminating on how the three childhood friends assembled “Treasure of Love,” the Flatlanders’ ...

The short version of how “Flatland Lullaby,” the Oct. 21 release from longtime Austin musician Joe Ely, came into existence is that it was a Christmas gift for his young daughter Marie in 1984. But ...

Joe Ely, storied West Texas rocker, played at The Cedar on Oct. 23rd, 2012, a beautiful autumn evening that would have been perfect had the concert been at an outdoor bonfire. Minnesota’s own Paul ...

GRAMMY Award-winning singer-songwriter Joe Ely has announced his new album Driven to Drive, due out August 2 via Rack ‘Em Records / Thirty Tigers. With twenty-three albums and several million miles ...

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Planet Make-Over’s Musical Director Stephen Bruton Adds Joe Ely and Film “Nobelity” to NCsoft’s Operation Immortality to Reverse Global Warming Operation Immortality, the project to create a digital ...

Veteran singer-songwriter Joe Ely, 78, has been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia and Parkinson’s disease, it was announced Tuesday, Sept. 9 on his official Facebook account. “Together with his wife ...

Joe Ely has seen some shit. As a solo artist, member of the Flatlanders, and even as an employee of the circus, the country-rock raconteur has spent a lifetime on the road. He was conscripted by ...