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 ...

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 On Mountain Stage. March 6, 2012 • The Texas singer-songwriter blends folk, rock, and country in this session of Mountain Stage.Listen to songs from his latest album, Satisfied at Last.

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If one of Joe Ely's heroes, Buddy Holly, hadn't already put Lubbock on the musical map, Ely would have done it himself a long time ago.

When the Clash started kicking around with Joe Ely in the late ’70s, they were drawn to this West Texas wild card who didn’t like rules. Ely was a singer-songwriter from West Texas, whi… ...

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 ...

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 ...