Robert Earl Keen didn’t even set out to write a Christmas song. He certainly didn’t set out to create a Christmas show. Still, the country singer-songwriter has never been one to pass up an ...

Troubador Festival is dropping a great lineup and announcing that it will be held in a brand-new location. But for fans that love the BBQ and music festival, which has been held in Celina, Texas, in ...

Joe Ely, a pioneering Texas singer-songwriter who helped shape the progressive country sound and Americana genre, died Monday ...

Joe Ely is finally at rest. The superb Texas singer-songwriter, a favorite of Bruce Springsteen and Austin City Limits, ...

The singer performed in North Texas dozens of times, most often at Billy Bob’s Texas, Poor David’s Pub, Caravan of Dreams, the Granada Theater and the ...

Texas country music legend Joe Ely has passed away at 78. The singer announced his Parkinson's disease and Lewy Body Dementia diagnosis in September.

Ely brought his Lubbock-made country rock to Austin and the world, befriending big stars and influencing younger musicians.

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Joe Ely, a key figure in Texas’s progressive country movement of the 1970s, has died. His ...

The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter played in the Flatlanders and Los Super Seven, and hopped on songs by the Clash, Uncle Tupelo, and the Chieftans ...

Amarillo, Texas, native Ely was raised in Lubbock, Texas, and later moved to Austin and was part of an influential wave of progressive country rock artists who helped establish Austin as a live ...

He peered into the darkest corners of humanity and remained an optimist. By Jonathan Mahler When Robert Jay Lifton visited Hiroshima for the first time in the spring of 1962, he spent five fevered ...