The flatlanders : now it's now again / John T. Davis ; design by Lindsay Starr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, John T. (John Terry), 1955- author.

Contributor:

Starr, Lindsay, designer.

Series:

American music series (Austin, Tex.)

American Music Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flatlanders (Musical group).

Country music groups--Texas--Lubbock.

Country music groups.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A group of three friends who made music in a house in Lubbock, Texas, recorded an album that wasn’t released and went their separate ways into solo careers. That group became a legend and then—twenty years later—a band. The Flatlanders—Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock—are icons in American music, with songs blending country, folk, and rock that have influenced a long list of performers, including Robert Earl Keen, the Cowboy Junkies, Ryan Bingham, Terry Allen, John Hiatt, Hayes Carll, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, and Lyle Lovett. In The Flatlanders: Now It’s Now Again, Austin author and music journalist John T. Davis traces the band’s musical journey from the house on 14th Street in Lubbock to their 2013 sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall. He explores why music was, and is, so important in Lubbock and how earlier West Texas musicians such as Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison, as well as a touring Elvis Presley, inspired the young Ely, Gilmore, and Hancock. Davis vividly recreates the Lubbock countercultural scene that brought the Flatlanders together and recounts their first year (1972–1973) as a band, during which they recorded the songs that, decades later, were released as the albums More a Legend Than a Band and The Odessa Tapes. He follows the three musicians through their solo careers and into their first decade as a (re)united band, in which they cowrote songs for the first time on the albums Now Again and Hills and Valleys and recovered their extraordinary original demo tape, lost for forty years. Many roads later, the Flatlanders are finally both a legend and a band.

Contents:

""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One: The Land""; ""1. The Llano""; ""2. The City""; ""3. The Invasion""; ""4. The House""; ""Part Two: The Men, First Verse""; ""5. Joe, Jimmie, and Butch, Part 1""; ""6. Compañeros""; ""Part Three: The Music""; ""7. Genesis""; ""8. More a Legend""; ""9. Diaspora""; ""Part Four: The Men, Second Verse""; ""10. Joe, Jimmie, and Butch, Part 2""; ""Part Five: The Return""; ""11. More a Band""; ""12. Alchemy: Now Again""; ""13. Cruising Speed: Wheels of Fortune and Live '72""; ""14. Dust to Dust: Hills and Valleys""

""15. Closing the Circle: The Odessa Tapes""""Epilogue: Carnegie Hall: Practice, Practice, Practice""; ""Discography""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780292767324

0292767323

9780292767317

0292767315

OCLC:

891081418