A single spotlight shone down on the stage of Harford Community College's Chesapeake Theater. Atop a throw rug sat a stool, a guitar in its stand, a microphone, and a small table. That was about ...

Joe Ely: 'It just kind of evolved' “I can’t say it was the hardest record I’ve ever done, but it was the longest,” says Ely, 74, the Flatlander with the most studio production experience.

Don’t assume Joe Ely’s new children’s album will have limited appeal. Ely sometimes spent years working on a verse, and the decades of incubation show: The album is a relaxed but polished ...

Joe Ely and his wife, Sharon, have lived on the same ranch outside Austin, Texas, for 38 years, and in that time they’ve accumulated enough memorabilia to fill an entire building on the property ...

Joe Ely's new album evolved from a Christmas present he made for his daughter when she was a young child in the 1980s; he's being inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame on Thursday ...

Joe Ely has seen some shit. As a solo artist, member of the Flatlanders, and even as an employee of the circus, the country-rock raconteur has spent a lifetime on the road. He was conscripted by ...

Joe Ely, the famed Texas singer-songwriter known for his raw blend of country, rock, and Americana, is facing a serious health challenge that has temporarily taken him off the road. The ...

T he first time Joe Ely came to New York to get himself a music career, in the '70s, he didn't exactly set the town on fire. "I was here for six months," he says. "I wrote a lot of songs and took ...

The short version of how “Flatland Lullaby,” the Oct. 21 release from longtime Austin musician Joe Ely, came into existence is that it was a Christmas gift for his young daughter Marie in 1984 ...

So states Joe Ely in the Driven to Drive album press, penned with typical panache by Texas music’s homegrown Homer, Joe Nick Patoski. Road songs all recorded at home – that sounds like a Butch ...

Don’t assume Joe Ely’s new children’s album will have limited appeal. It’s for anyone who has ever been a kid. “Flatland Lullaby” was a long time in the works. Some of the material ...