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The fact that Texas music titans Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock - on their first go-round as The Flatlanders in 1972 - were completely rejected by the country music establishment is surprising in retrospect but, ultimately, poetic. That each went on to have formidable solo careers is a testament to their talent and determination. Add to this their diverse yet complimentary styles - Joe the street-wise rocker, Jimmie Dale the mystic with the classic country voice and Butch the cerebral folk singer - and you've got a story of one of the most extraordinary kinships in American musical history. Check our available Flatlanders concert ticket inventory and get your tickets here at ConcertBank now. Sign up for an email alert to be notified the moment we have tickets!


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And the new The Odessa Tapes is one more - an important one. It's a recently discovered and newly restored recording of 14 songs the Flatlanders had cut at a studio in Odessa, Texas, in January 1972. It was near - by Texas standards - their home in Lubbock. That two months before they went to Nashville, making this their earliest known recordings...
- www.americansongwriter.com
Every alt-country fan knows the story of the Flatlanders. The band of Texans made a record at Shelby Singeleton's Plantation Records in Nashville back in 1972 called All American Music. It was only released on 8-track tape and soon faded into obscurity. As three of the central group members (Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, and Butch Hancock) became known as talented solo musicians, interest in the old recordings grew. Rounder Records reissued the recordings in 1992 as More a Legend Than a Band...
- www.popmatters.com
With a powerhouse trio of talents like Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Joe Ely and all that Texas flatland culture among them, you'd think this album would soar. It do. Gilmore, with his signature singin' cowboy voice, leads off with a Utah Phillips ballad, Goin' Away. They're not here to push anything on you, just to give voice to 14 songs...
- www.hour.ca
Untraditionalists revered in the world of traditional music, the Flatlanders act as though country-rock was invented in the summits of Tibet by a Zen guru who looks like Willie Nelson...
- www.blender.com
The Flatlanders played precious few gigs in their early-'70s heyday, and all thoughts that live recordings existed of those honky-tonk and living-room sessions had been dismissed. But here it is—the 1972 Flatlanders, in all their glory, plus musical saw-player Steve Wesson, playing extraterrestrial honky-tonk before a couple of dozen souls at Austin's legendary One Knite club...
- www.uncut.co.uk
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- www.robertchristgau.com
Technically speaking, the Flatlanders' millennial reboot, 2002's bonhomous Now Again, constitutes Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, and Butch Hancock's sophomore slump. After all, the three musketeers' original sessions from 1971 and 1972, bronzed for posterity decades later by Rounder Records' More a Legend Than a Band, produced West Texas mysticism more a secret handshake than a music legend, yet still a Lone Star singer-songwriter standard...
- www.austinchronicle.com
living in the moment gets old ("Going Away," "Now It's Now Again")
- www.robertchristgau.com
In 1972, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, and leader Jimmie Dale Gilmore--drumless psychedelic cowboys returned to Lubbock from Europe and San Francisco and Austin--recorded in Nashville for Shelby Singleton, and even an eccentric like the owner of the Sun catalogue and "Harper Valley P.T.A." must have considered them weird...
- www.robertchristgau.com
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