Butch Hancock

The 10 Best Concerts in Dallas This Weekend, Starring Aesop Rock, Identity Fest and More

Every Thursday we bring you our 10 favorite concert options for the coming weekend. Find every concert for this weekend and beyond at dallasobserver.com/concerts. Identity Festival Friday, August 10, at Gexa Energy Pavilion Identity Festival pretty much marks the greatest day of the year for EDM fa ... More >>

Waltz Around Our 100 Best Texas Songs

The 100 Best Texas Songs: The Complete List

100. Tripping Daisy, "Sonic Bloom" Before this album, the band had a grunge-pop affectation, but this song, from 1998's Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb, was more heartfelt than anything they'd done before. - Daniel Hopkins 99. Pleasant Grove, "The Plaque at 16ft" Bret Egner wrote "The Plaque at 16ft, ... More >>

13 of This Weekend's Best Shows: Neil Halstead, The Coathangers, KISS and more

Neil HalsteadSaturday, August 4, at Good RecordsOnce the lead singer of one of the loudest and dreamiest shoegaze acts, Slowdive, Neil Halstead has somehow found himself far away from the style he once perfected. After a decade of playing country pop in Mojave 3, he's now strumming solo, in preview ... More >>

The Best Texas Songs of All Time: #39-20

Best Texas songs, #100-80 Best Texas songs, #79-60 Best Texas songs, #59-40 The Spotify playlist for songs #39-20 39. Billy Joe Shaver, "Live Forever" "Live Forever" is an emotional experience. The line, "Don't let the darkness take them" is tear-inducing, given that his own son, Eddy, was take ... More >>

15 of This Weekend's Best Shows: Miguel Migs, Oak Cliff Film Festival, Iris DeMent and More

It'll Do Club Grand OpeningSaturday, June 16, at It'll Do ClubEver driven eastbound on Elm Street until it hits the dead end? Then chances are you've seen the It'll Do Club. Shrouded in the long-forgotten East Ellum neighborhood, this club opening marks another step in Deep Ellum's expansion. Plu ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Townes Van Zandt

The great Butch Hancock will be at AllGood Cafe tonight, kicking off a March residency and the cafe's fist annual Townes Van Zandt birthday tribute. Hancock does a similar yearly jam at the Cactus Cafe in Austin, and he's a master storyteller, especially when talking about Townes. He's even more rev ... More >>

Shelby Lynne at the Kessler and the Best of Your Weekend

Shelby Lynne​It's kind of hard to look the other way when you see that Shelby Lynne's coming to Dallas, and the Kessler Theater of all venues. Should be a great, intimate place to catch a handful of the country star's hits.That's just the start.We already mentioned Daniel Hart at El Sibil on Satur ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Townes, Guy and Ray Wylie at the Three Teardrops

​Whenever I drive down this stretch of IndustrialRiverfront, which is often, I think about what used to be there: the Three Teardrops Tavern, the honky-tonk that served as home-away-from for old-timers (Boots Bourquin was a regular), newcomers (Ed Burleson got his start there) and those in-between ... More >>

B.B. King at Billy Bob's Texas, The Boom Boom Box at La Grange, and More Show Announcements

​It's a far cry from B.B. King's legendary 1968 performance at Fillmore West in San Fransisco, where the story has it that he was booed by black audience members. But, as he's done many times since, King is returning to perform at Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth on Saturday, February 25.Tickets fo ... More >>

Bettysoo

Friday, December 9, at AllGood Cafe

Grimes, Dr. Dog and an Impressive List of Show Announcements

​There are weeks when the show announcements are about as flimsy as a wet persimmon. Fortunately, this is not one of them. For starters, Grimes is coming to town. Her last performance  was a brilliant showing at Gorilla Vs. Bear Fest, in which she wooed the audience with her mix of Madonna's ... More >>

New Year's Eve Spectacular With The Polyphonic Spree, and a Very Dense List of Show Announcements

​The Polyphonic Spree certainly loves the holidays. It makes sense, seeing as they're the most joyful band on the planet. And only three weeks after they throw their annual Holiday Extravaganza at Lakewood Theater, they're throwing a New Year's Eve bash at House Of Blues on December 31. Which show ... More >>

By Way of Joe Ely, Rhett Miller Helps Remind Us How This Blog Got Its Name.

What do you say we go and print some of these suckers up now that we're famous?​Every few months or so, it just so happens that someone will pop up on our radar and ask us how this here blog got its name. To be honest: We're not quite sure who picked it. Our memories here in the music department t ... More >>

Joe Ely Tells Us Why He's Now Satisfied At Last

Joe Ely​At 64, Joe Ely is the elder statesman of Texas music. For over three decades, Ely has continuously released some of the most influential country-rock and folk albums around, inspiring and influencing bands as disparate as The Clash and Uncle Tupelo. Beginning his career in Lubbock while pl ... More >>

Sons of Hermann Hall Turns 100

Over The Weekend: The Flatlanders at Sons of Hermann Hall

Better than: Seeing the Flatlanders at the Wyly or the Granada, where they've played their last two shows. The ballroom at the Sons of Hermann Hall is their natural element, as dusty and real as the colorful West Texas characters that populate the band's best songs.Will Van Overbeek​The silver-hai ... More >>

Because Of The Wind

Picture Show: The Flatlanders at the Wyly Theatre

Patrick MichelsRyan Bingham, singing with Joe Ely here, played Shemp to the Flatlanders' Jimmie, Butch and Joe.​ Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock christened the Wyly Theatre's concert stage Tuesday night (they're the first non-Shakespearean act to play the new theater, at least), wra ... More >>

Free Flatlanders: A Contest!

​The folks at the AT&T Performing Arts Center picked quite the inaugural concert for the Wyly Theatre: The Flatlanders, otherwise known as Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock. No doubt they'll break in the joint Tuesday night with the first song on their first album, recorded in 197 ... More >>

Picture Show: The Flatlanders at the HOB

Gloria Levario In last week's paper, Noah wrote about The Flatlanders' enduring relevance and knack for writing about the times we're living in--and, on Friday night at the House of Blues, Butch Hancock, Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore put on a show to prove it.Check out more photos in our slideshow ... More >>

The Flatlanders' Legendary Careers Keep Growing

Terri Hendrix, Lloyd Maines

Friday, October 3, at AllGood Cafe

Oh, So That's What Happened To Eve 6!

After 25 Years, Uncle Calvin’s Coffee House Still Spreading the Word

Musical Portraits

Goldberg captures Texas' best

Charity Cases

Good ways to spend some money. Just get a receipt for your taxes.

The McKay Brothers

Friday, October 20, at Adair's

Happy Accidents

Richard Buckner makes room in his pickup for indie-rock friends but not songwriters

Fortunate Sons

For the supergroup The Flatlanders, three albums in three decades ain’t so bad

The Flatlanders

June 26

Various Artists

Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt (FreeFalls Entertainment)

Some things he did

Roxy Gordon was "one of the great outlaw artist misfits" and so much more

Out There

Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Rave on

For Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, and Butch Hancock, The Flatlanders is more a bond than a band

South by South Austin

The Cornell Hurd Band is in it for the long haul

The Dixie Chicks

What's Not To Like?

Terry saves

Lubbock-born sculptor-songwriter finally finds a little Salivation

Out Here

Farther along

Emmylou Harris has a new boxed set, but she won't be trapped by that cardboard tombstone

Cosmic cowboy

Jimmie Dale Gilmore goes once more into the mystic

Events for the week

The unusual suspects

At South by Southwest, the magic moments count the most

Roadshows

Out There

Hank, junior

Wayne Hancock rides shotgun down the Lost Highway

Dust and wind

Joe Ely sends a sad, beautiful Letter to Laredo

Roadshows