This week in Philly music brings the unofficial opening of the outdoor concert season with Dave Hause’s Sing Us Home fest in Manayunk (yes, Jon Stewart will be playing drums on Sunday), plus the ...

Texas songwriter Joe Ely, whose career took him from the dusty and flat landscape of the Texas Panhandle around the world, collaborating with fellow troubadours Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock ...

Joe Ely, a native of West Texas, absorbed the honky-tonk, western swing and rock ‘n’ roll of his youth. He ran away from home at age sixteen to see the world and play music. He later returned to ...

The Flatlanders are a supergroup a la The Traveling Wilburys, though admittedly the names Gilmore, Ely and Hancock are a tad less recognizable than the likes of Harrison, Dylan, Orbison and Petty. But ...

Three Flatlanders and a Hillbilly: (counter-clockwise from top left) Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, and Chronicle interlocutor Doug Freeman chat it up over Zoom Credit: Screenshot by ...

C. Elliott Butch Hancock Townes Van Zandt’s roughshod life somehow created space and breathed life into a pack of uncontainable West Texas singer-songwriters whose time arrived like a haboob in the ...