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'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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

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.

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 ...

There are few people so well suited to pull a song out of a recent sequence of surreal events than Texas country rocker Joe Ely. Ely had a one-of-a-kind custom guitar stolen from him 27 years ago, ...

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 ...