Joe Ely - Live Shots
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Artist: Joe ElyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Music Label: American Beat
Soundtracks:
- Fingernails
- Midnight Shift
- Honky Tonk Masquerade
- Honky Tonkin'
- Long Snake Moan
- I Had My Hopes Up High
- She Never Spoke Spanish to Me
- Johnny's Blues
- Fools Fall in Love
- Boxcars
- Crazy Lemon [*]
- Not Fade Away [*]
- Treat Me Like a Saturday Night [*]
- Wishin' for You [*]
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Music Review: National Treasure....
Rating: 5 Stars
With over 40 years behind him amazing audiences, and an accolade from Bruce Springsteen himself, declaring him the greatest live performer alive, Joe Ely's steadfast inability to crack the mainstream remains one of life's great mysteries. Born in Buddy Holly's hometown of Lubbock Texas, Ely came up in the late '60's outlaw-country ferment in Austin, where he teamed up with fellow Lone Star visionaries Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore to form The Flatlanders, who released a country/folk/rock 'n roll classic on a par with Big Pink and Sweethearts of the Rodeo, which landed with a resounding thud. By '77, Joe had signed to MCA, and formed a phenomenal band who fused Texas road house rock and hard country. They released 4 classic albums, and this live album is a souvenir from a British tour where he opened for The Clash c.1979. Live Shots showcases the best tunes off of Joe's early solo work, except he bends and stretches his high lonesome tenor to the utmost, while his band matches him blow for blow every step of the way, lead guitar dueling with accordian and pedal steel in frantic honky-tonk/punk-rock rave-ups. Joe had the benefit not only of his own considerable songwriting gifts, he also had contributions from the songbooks of Gilmore and Hancock, who both write like Merle Haggard after a week-end with various controlled substances, paying hommage to the honk-tonk tradition while not unmindful of post-Dylan developments. (Favorite Hancock couplet from "Fools Fall in Love:" "A wise man hits the bottom/But a fool falls right on through.")
This record captures the raw excitement of Ely at full-throttle, and for my money is one of the finest live country-rock discs ever.
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