Categories: General
Date: Jun 28, 2012
Title: The Flatlanders release early recordings, echoing their camaraderie
Is it possible to be a supergroup in retrospect? Certainly when Lubbock natives Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Joe Ely started living and making music together in the 1970s, they had no idea the impact they'd make on music collectively and individually. Each provided his respective specialty — folk, country and rock — cross-pollinating the styles and helping lay out the template for Texas alt-country.