By Richard Skanse “How did you find me?” asks a (somewhat) convincingly surprised-sounding Joe Ely by way of “hello.” “I’m in a small village in …
By Richard Skanse As milestone birthdays go, 70 trips around the sun certainly merits a fair amount of fuss. A nice family dinner at bare …
By Richard Skanse “Hey, what ’cha know?” It’s 10:30 a.m., and Joe Ely, his signature West Texas greeting as cheerful as ever, is all coffee’d …
Let’s be honest here: As fun as it is to compile (and peruse) these sorts of year-end deals, the fact is, the very idea of …
JOE ELY Panhandle Rambler Rack ’Em Records Out of all the living legends of Texas and Americana music to tumble out of Lubbock in the …
