To my Texas friends, or anyone else who might know ...
The Flatlanders are supposed to be doing a free concert downtown tomorrow night but you need a ticket to get in. They don't start giving the tickets out until 5:00, I don't get out of work until 5:30. Is is worth it to try and rush down there after work to see if there are any tickets left? I like Joe Ely but I'm not familiar with Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
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I've never seen them, but here's a video of them at Austin City Limits on YouTube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RgVfD4TCdKY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RgVfD4TCdKY
Go!! I've seen em about a dozen times.
They put on a heck of a show. You know Joe, so...
Butch Hancock has a very unique voice.
Then...Jimmie Dale has a very VERY UNIQUE voice.
I've acquired a taste for them all individually, but together THEY ARE GREAT. There is a song on Now Again called Down In The Light of Melon MOON and it is a hauntingly beautiful song. One of the best.
Out of them all, Jimmie Dale is my most favorite. He has an interesting background. They are all from Lubbock area...thus Flatlanders. He covered Defying Gravity on One Endless Night. I love that CD.
Lots of guitars working on that stage when I saw 'em last.
They put on a heck of a show. You know Joe, so...
Butch Hancock has a very unique voice.
Then...Jimmie Dale has a very VERY UNIQUE voice.
I've acquired a taste for them all individually, but together THEY ARE GREAT. There is a song on Now Again called Down In The Light of Melon MOON and it is a hauntingly beautiful song. One of the best.
Out of them all, Jimmie Dale is my most favorite. He has an interesting background. They are all from Lubbock area...thus Flatlanders. He covered Defying Gravity on One Endless Night. I love that CD.
Lots of guitars working on that stage when I saw 'em last.
Well after watching that youtube DEZ posted, you know how unique Jimmie Dale is. 
The lead guitar player with them then was Robbie Gjersoe. He is really good. He has also recorded with Bob Livingston, JJW's bass player.
And he's good. You'll enjoy all that Texas Flandland Country stuff.
Oh MY, this is an old one. Look at JDG's hair
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wh-tyM0ApRI
The lead guitar player with them then was Robbie Gjersoe. He is really good. He has also recorded with Bob Livingston, JJW's bass player.
And he's good. You'll enjoy all that Texas Flandland Country stuff.
Oh MY, this is an old one. Look at JDG's hair
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wh-tyM0ApRI
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Just got home a little while ago, I missed my train and had to wait 45 minutes for the next one. Great show, but a little short. They played 14 songs, came back for an encore and did 2 more, then 2 more for the second encore. It was an outdoor show and it was only 93 degrees when I left my office to go to the subway station. It was at a place called Castle Clinton in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan, the venue holds maybe 500-600.
I was standing about 10 feet behind the last row of seats when I took this picture.
This is about the best picture I could find of the venue.
I was standing about 10 feet behind the last row of seats when I took this picture.
This is about the best picture I could find of the venue.
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I really liked them. I'll have to go cruising on iTunes and see what I can find. I have one of their CDs, More A Legend Than A Band, but I haven't listened to it in a while. I'll see what else I can find. I only recognized 3 songs - Dallas, If You Were A Bluebird and Sitting On Top Of The World, which was the final encore.
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Went to see The Flatlanders again Saturday night, they played at a small outdoor venue on LI and I had 5th row center. They opened for Roseanne Cash but I didn't stay for her set. Saturday night was a typical NY summer night - hot and very humid. The reserved seats at this place are under a tent and there's absolutely no air circulating under the tent. The Flatlanders played for about an hour and 20 minutes and I left when they were finished. Between the heat, the humidity and the bugs I couldn't take it anymore.
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First time I paid attention to The Flatlanders was last month. Thanks again to Vin Scelsa. He played "Borderless Love" and I was oh yea, love it. "Hills and Valleys" album is now out.
Sample on their website.
http://theflatlanders.com/index.html
Sample on their website.
http://theflatlanders.com/index.html
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I am going to see the Flatlanders tonight in State College, PA. I will write back with a review after the show. I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE THESE GUYS LIVE!!!
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I'm going to see the FLATLANDERS in Columbus, Oh this coming Sunday. I understand Ryan Bingham is opening. Please post how the PA show goes. I got a chance to see them perform during the AMA's in Nashville in Sept and they were really good.
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The State College show was FANTASTIC. I will write more as soon as my schedule frees up. You will have a great time in Columbus.
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They're at BB King's tonight and I forgot all about it. Show starts at 8:00, my next train doesn't get to Penn Station until 8:39. Oh well. Next time.
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Excellent show last night in Columbus. I posted a review. I disagree that the band never caught fire. They were on fire all night.
Review | The Flatlanders
Songwriters satisfy with well-told stories
Monday, November 23, 2009 12:46 AM
By Curtis Schieber
FOR THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The Flatlanders' Homeland Refugee describes a lesser-known migration during the Dust Bowl of the mid-1930s: When life got tough in California many desperate families reversed course and returned to the dried farmlands of their origins. Delivered last night in the Columbus Maennerchor by Joe Ely, the song at turns was nearly as evocative as a Dorothea Lange photograph.
If the famed Austin group sometimes didn't quite catch musical fire, the songs never failed, fulfilling the promise of a band that unites three of the best songwriters associated with the town that has defined the genre for decades.
Most songs on the band's new album Hills And Valleys -which perhaps describes the trials of the Flatlanders' 37-year, on-and-off partnership - are credited to Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock and Ely. Like the writing credit "Lennon and McCartney," though, it is generally pretty clear which of the three was most responsible and would sing lead. In fact the evening was something of a round robin, each taking turns with the others joining on harmonies backed by a terrific trio.
The potentially thorny question of original inspiration, though, was suggested in an amusing bit of stage patter wherein Gilmore claimed to have intended to write Thank God For The Road but that Hancock had put it to paper first. He wondered out loud, too, whether Hancock had written it before Cormack McCarthy had written his novel The Road.
The fact is that Hancock, like the other two, has the ability to take an aged metaphor - in this case at least as old as the Beat writers of the 1950s - and make it fresh.
Though their styles showed differences, the strengths they shared made for a concert-length dissertation on the fine skills of songwriting and the deep satisfaction produced by a simple musical story.
Gilmore's After The Storm and Hancock's Borderless Love brilliantly took easy target issues - Katrina and immigration - and gave them depth and insight by melding them with stories of lost and troubled love.
New talent Ryan Bingham opened with a set of well-detailed and promising songs delivered in a gruff, if not always natural singing voice. He also explained the source of the Lubbock Flatlanders' name. Standing on West Texas soil, he said, you can see 100 miles. From the top of a tuna can, you can see the back of your head.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/ar ... ml?sid=101
Review | The Flatlanders
Songwriters satisfy with well-told stories
Monday, November 23, 2009 12:46 AM
By Curtis Schieber
FOR THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The Flatlanders' Homeland Refugee describes a lesser-known migration during the Dust Bowl of the mid-1930s: When life got tough in California many desperate families reversed course and returned to the dried farmlands of their origins. Delivered last night in the Columbus Maennerchor by Joe Ely, the song at turns was nearly as evocative as a Dorothea Lange photograph.
If the famed Austin group sometimes didn't quite catch musical fire, the songs never failed, fulfilling the promise of a band that unites three of the best songwriters associated with the town that has defined the genre for decades.
Most songs on the band's new album Hills And Valleys -which perhaps describes the trials of the Flatlanders' 37-year, on-and-off partnership - are credited to Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock and Ely. Like the writing credit "Lennon and McCartney," though, it is generally pretty clear which of the three was most responsible and would sing lead. In fact the evening was something of a round robin, each taking turns with the others joining on harmonies backed by a terrific trio.
The potentially thorny question of original inspiration, though, was suggested in an amusing bit of stage patter wherein Gilmore claimed to have intended to write Thank God For The Road but that Hancock had put it to paper first. He wondered out loud, too, whether Hancock had written it before Cormack McCarthy had written his novel The Road.
The fact is that Hancock, like the other two, has the ability to take an aged metaphor - in this case at least as old as the Beat writers of the 1950s - and make it fresh.
Though their styles showed differences, the strengths they shared made for a concert-length dissertation on the fine skills of songwriting and the deep satisfaction produced by a simple musical story.
Gilmore's After The Storm and Hancock's Borderless Love brilliantly took easy target issues - Katrina and immigration - and gave them depth and insight by melding them with stories of lost and troubled love.
New talent Ryan Bingham opened with a set of well-detailed and promising songs delivered in a gruff, if not always natural singing voice. He also explained the source of the Lubbock Flatlanders' name. Standing on West Texas soil, he said, you can see 100 miles. From the top of a tuna can, you can see the back of your head.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/ar ... ml?sid=101