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Beloved singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith died on August 13 at the age of 68. To many, the Americana of the Grammy-winning Griffith embodied the integrity of the lifelong singer-songwriter.
John Job's guest column on Rodney Crowell who performs a free concert in Oak Ridge on Saturday night at A.K. Bissell Park.
Texas Music Magazine You know that philosophy espoused by organizational guru Marie Kondo, about improving your life by getting rid of everything that doesn’t “spark joy”? Sure, it may help tidy up your home and closet space, but hoarding can have its rewards, too — at least if you’re Joe Ely. Ever since launching his Rack ’em Records label back in 2007, the Lubbock-reared roots rocker and founding member of the Flatlanders has been mining pure gold (or “Pearls from the Vault,” as he calls them) from his huge stockpile of unreleased music spanning more than five de...
Joe Ely, Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore — together known as the Flatlanders — are not only bandmates, but friends, who have known each other for more than five decades. They share various common interests; they trade book recommendations. But, when you get right down to it, it's music that's the basis of their strongest bond. "It's more than just the music, but the love of the music is the real core," says Gilmore. "And it's it's still there as much now as it was when we first started." Hancock and Gilmore have known each other since the seventh grade. They were good friends at ...
Daily Times July 10, 2021 Never has the tremulous twang that is unmistakably Jimmie Dale Gilmore been more welcome than after a year and a half of pandemic strangeness. Listening to The Flatlanders´ “Treasure of Love” is like strolling into a corner honky-tonk and discovering an old friend on the next barstool. Maybe a little grizzled, telling the same stories, but who cares? You´re together again. Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock first hooked up almost 50 years ago. They’ve since performed together and separately, but The Flatlanders haven´t made an album in more than a decade. So...