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 ...

This image released by Rack 'Em/Thirty Tigers shows "Flatland Lullaby" by Joe Ely. (Rack 'Em/Thirty Tigers via AP) “Flatland Lullaby,” Joe Ely (Rack ‘em/Thirty Tigers) Don’t assume Joe Ely’s new ...

Joe Ely’s new album Driven to Drive is arriving Aug. 2, and leadoff single “Odds of the Blues” features vocals from his longtime buddy, Bruce Springsteen. The song was inspired by Ely’s time at the ...

It was a sold-out show for Saturday night's Joe Ely Band reunion at the Cactus Theater. Fans attended not just from Lubbock but from towns such as Austin and Turkey. Husband and wife Jane and Rynn ...

Terry Allen once told Aftermath that Joe Ely was his favorite performer. Allen related that Ely would come over to his house in Lubbock and sit on his couch and try out new songs. According to Allen, ...

A sharp songwriter with the interpretive powers of a classic soul singer and the timbre of Jerry Lee Lewis in his prime, Joe Ely should be a country music icon. Then again, have the 30 years since Ely ...

You might say the difficult-to-summarize and impossible-to classify musical life of alt-country/folk-rock singer-songwriter Joe Ely started at a used car lot in Amarillo. Lured to a Pontiac dealership ...

Singer Joe Ely has been reunited with a long-lost friend after nearly 30 years apart. In an unbelievable turn of events, the Texas music legend was reunited live on stage with a custom-made guitar ...

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“Did you hear the latest?” Joe Ely asked backstage Sunday night at Pappy & Harriet’s, the colorful restaurant and saloon in Pioneertown, a few minutes before starting his set. The question referred to ...

There are few people so well suited to pull a song out of a recent sequence of surreal events than Texas country rocker Joe Ely. Ely had a one-of-a-kind custom guitar stolen from him 27 years ago, and ...

July 27, 2010 • In 1973, three songwriters released their first album together; it was available only as an 8-track tape. The record was reissued 18 years later, after each member (Jimmie Dale Gilmore ...