Three Flatlanders and a Hillbilly: (counter-clockwise from top left) Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, and Chronicle interlocutor Doug Freeman chat it up over Zoom Credit: Screenshot by ...

Partway through “Moanin’ of the Midnight Train” — the new album by the Lubbock trio the Flatlanders, Joe Ely sings a line written by his friend and bandmate Butch Hancock that captures perfectly ...

Joe Ely, together with fellow Texans Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock, formed the band, The Flatlanders. Ely passed away on December 15 at 78 in Taos, New Mexico, after suffering from ...

The Flatlanders with Butch Hancock, Joe Ely, & Jimmie Dale Gilmore comes to the Old Rock House with a show on April 4. Popular music critic {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day ...

Ely's long recording career was marked by eclecticism, especially once he began recording independently. He always followed his own muse and was unafraid of the occasional misfire.

Country-rock pioneer from Texas whose fans included the Clash and Bruce Springsteen ...

Joe Ely, the Texas singer-songwriter, guitarist, and Flatlanders member who became a key architect of country-rock, has died at age 78.

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.