Joe Ely

Thirteen Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: May 9-15

We've got some pretty awesome shows happening in your city this week, and you wanna know what else? Of the twelve concerts listed below, some of the musicians in these bands have be involved in some crazy antics, including the following: 1. Got his/her eye pissed into by a bat, and had to be tested ... More >>

First Ever Oak Cliff Music Festival Set For November 3

The Kessler Theater is getting in on the festival action, and has just announced the inaugural Oak Cliff Music Festival, set for November 3, which will take place in the Winnetka Heights neighborhood surrounding the venue. The acts slated so far are the usual suspects -- Carolyn Wonderland, Alejandr ... More >>

The Best Texas Songs of All Time: #59-40

Best Texas songs, #100-80 Best Texas songs, #79-60 The Spotify playlist for songs #59-40 59. Tum Tum, "Caprice Music" For years, the Dallas hip-hop community's had a love affair with the Chevy Caprice Classic. Tum Tum's "Caprice Music" was an ode to that car culture, illustrating the unique trend ... More >>

This Weekend's Best Bets: Roky Erickson, Mark Farina, Quintron & Miss Pussycat and More

Roky Erickson, James Hall & The Futura BoldFriday, July 13, at The Kessler TheaterPsychedelic rock pioneer Roky Erickson will be at the Kessler tomorrow night with opening act James Hall, who is legendary in his own right, and one of the greatest front men I've ever seen. Easily the top bill of ... More >>

SXSW: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Rock ACL Live

Bruce Springsteen's Thursday started with a keynote speech in one of the big ballrooms at the Austin Convention Center, and ended with a mythic three-hour set at ACL Live across town, in front of a few thousand people cooing "Bruce". The keynote and the show went hand in hand. If you weren't there ... 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 >>

Tiptoe Through This Sneak Peek at Big Bucks Burnett's Eight-Track Doc Featuring Tiny Tim

The Dallas Video Festival, now in its 24th year, makes it bow September 21 with a screening of Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme at the Texas Theatre, which will be immediately followed by a sequel of sorts to Richard Linklater's Slacker. The full schedule's here, and, of course, we'll have more in ... More >>

Top 100 Reasons Texas Is Twice as Awesome as Any Other State

Merritt MartinOh, you can damn well bet this is on the list.​By now most of you dear readers are well aware of the Gawker-produced list of the 50 Worst States In America. Gawker placed their home base at 50, and the Lone Star State at 13. Sure sure, our placement could be worse, but instead of ... 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 >>

Joe Ely Does "Dallas," In Dallas

What you see above is a Jeff Liles-filmed two-fer from Joe Ely's extraordinary, intimate "Storytellers" performance at the Kessler last night: Dig All Night's "Behind the Bamboo Shade" followed by Ely's rendition of the immortal "Dallas," penned by Jimmie Dale Gilmore and originally released as the ... More >>

Good Friday: Club Dada's New Year's Eve Do-Over Party, Yells At Eels, Eleven Hundred Springs, The Derailers, Kool Keith, Royal Bangs, Girl Talk, True Widow & More!

Kevin Todora​It's looking like a good weekend of shows, starting with Club Dada's New Year's Eve Do-Over Party on Saturday night. It'll feature performances from Hoyotoho, Damaged Good$, galleryCat, and Datahowler, and includes a Champagne toast at midnight.But that's not the only big show happeni ... More >>

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

Old 97's, Rodney Parker Round Out Tyler's Southbound Sound Music Festival

​If you don't mind driving the 92 miles between Dallas and Tyler, there's a nice line up set for the Southbound Sound Music Festival, which is set to take place on Saturday, May 8, at the Texas Rose Horse Park located at 14078 State Highway 110 N. The all day festival will feature (among others) J ... More >>

Haiti Benefit Concerts Scheduled In Austin And Dallas, And Paste 'Songs For Haiti' Downloads Include Fort Worth Band

Fort Worth's The Burning Hotels are among the artists available for download once you donate to Paste Magazine's Songs For Haiti.​Perhaps the best thing about the local music scene is how generous North Texas musicians are when it comes to benefit concerts and other ways of donating to worthy char ... More >>

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 >>

Show Announcements: Cheech And Chong, Laser Spectaculars And More

​Ever notice how those angel sculptures on the exterior of Bass Hall sorta look like they're chiefing on enormous brass one-hitters? No? Well, here's betting that Cheech and Chong will make that observation when they perform at the Fort Worth performing arts hall Friday, April 30, 2010. The dope d ... More >>

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Good Friday: The Felons, Joe Ely, Peacemaker, Telegraph Canyon, Sleep Whale, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, Daniel Francis Doyle, Little Black Dress, Record Hop

Weekend's here and I'm sure we're all eager to get it launched. So, without further ado, let's get right into it. First, the shows we've already talked up...Tonight, Ben Kweller stops in for a homecoming gig of sorts at the Granada Theater, Cryptacize stops by Rubber Gloves for a set with Fishboy an ... 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

Reckless Kelly, South Austin Jug Band, The Gougers

Thursday, June 26, at the Granada Theater

The "First Serious Biography" Of Townes Van Zandt

When Two Become One

Kamadeva and Psyche need some love

Musical Portraits

Goldberg captures Texas' best

One Helluva Bonfire

Joe Ely graces area bookstores

Joe Ely

Happy Songs From Rattlesnake Gulch (Rack 'Em)

Lubbock Via Deep Ellum

Charity Cases

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

Tower: Everything Must Go! Like, Now

Jesse DeNatale

Thursday, June 22, at AllGood Cafe

Helping Out

Granada benefit show to help tsunami victims

Jesse Dayton

Country Soul Brother (Stag Records)

Fortunate Sons

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

The Flatlanders

June 26

Robert Earl Keen, Cory Morrow

May 26

You Slaid me

On the road in his Dodge Dart, Slaid Cleaves is the last of the traveling troubadours

Rave on

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

Terry saves

Lubbock-born sculptor-songwriter finally finds a little Salivation

Roadshows

Roadshows

Events for the week

Out Here

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