The Americana music format has taken a heavy hit these past months. First, we lost Todd Snider, then Raul Malo, and just last week, Joe Ely passed away. Of these three artists, Joe Ely’s death hit the hardest. His music ....
Joe Ely was a country-rock pioneer from west Texas who brought a new audience to country music ... He opened for them at concerts in the US – including a show in Ely’s home town of Lubbock – and they toured together in the UK ... “Ely is a special case.
Joe Ely, a singer and songwriter from the vast flatness of West Texas whose mastery of the South's varied musical traditions and paeans to the open road earned him the nickname Lord of the Highway and made him a leading ....
AUSTIN, Texas — Joe Ely, the influential Texas-born singer-songwriter whose blend of honky-tonk, rock and roadhouse blues made him a favorite among other musicians and led to collaborations with Bruce Springsteen and the Clash, has died. He was 78.
AUSTIN, Texas — Joe Ely, the influential Texas-born singer-songwriter whose blend of honky-tonk, rock and roadhouse blues made him a favorite among other musicians and led to collaborations with Bruce Springsteen and the Clash, has died. He was 78 ...
AUSTIN, Texas -- Joe Ely, the influential Texas-born singer-songwriter whose blend of honky-tonk, rock and roadhouse blues made him a favorite among other musicians and led to collaborations with Bruce Springsteen and the Clash, has died. He was 78 ... .
To boot, Janis worked for MCA records (Ely was on an MCA sub-label) and I was soon the possessor of the full Joe Ely music catalog—Musta Notta Gotta Lotta, Down on the Drag, the self-titled Joe Ely plus Honky Tonk Masquerade.