Artist: Joe Ely
Genre(s):
Other
Country
Rock
Discography:
Silver City
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Streets of Sin
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
The Best of Joe Ely
Year: 2000
Tracks: 20
Letter to Laredo
Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
Year: 1991
Tracks: 1
Live at Liberty Lunch
Year: 1990
Tracks: 13
In the '70s, country & western was full of artists referred to as outlaws, mavericks world Health Organization bucked the stodgy Nashville music establishment by piece of writing their have songs, recording with their road bands, and producing their have records. The genre produced a cut of acts of the Apostles, simply Amarillo, TX, native Joe Ely epitomized the form. Unlike most of that era's vainglorious name calling, Ely remained a viable creative person. He got his start back up in the early '70s, functional with Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore in a chemical group called the Flatlanders. Their only record album didn't go far, and the group skint up. (Rounder reissued the record album in 1990.) Around the mid-'70s, Ely formed an eclecticist group that was able to swing from Cajun and western to honkie tonk stomps and rockabilly; they were signed to MCA in 1977. Ely released an eponymic debut that class, victimisation songs written by ex-Flatlanders Gilmore and Butch Hancock and throwing in some of his possess road-worn, oddly poetic originals. The side by side yr brought Honkey Tonk Masquerade, the cornerstone of Ely's legacy and unitary of modernistic country's most ambitious albums. Further albums (especially Resilient Shots, recorded during his European turn with the Clash) brought Ely to the tending of stone fans and netted enraptured reviews in area and bulge magazines (simply, cryptically, produced no hits). MCA dropped Ely in 1983, and he woodshedded until 1987, when the sovereign Hightone label signed him and released Nobleman of the Highway. Another Hightone album followed before Ely (whose influence was existence matt-up by the new spawn of land neo-traditionalists) re-signed with MCA, releasing some other live set and Love & Danger. Twistin' in the Wind followed in 1998, and Live at Antone's arrived two years later along with MCA Nashville's Topper Of compendium. Ely remained an up-and-coming and passionate live performer and an on occasion inspired songster, releasing Streets of Sin in 2003 on Rounder Records and entry his possess mark, Rack'em Records, with 2007's Happy Songs from Rattlesnake Gulch.
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