The Flatlanders : : Now It's Now Again / / John T. Davis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Davis, John T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: American Music Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: The Land -- Chapter 1: The Llano -- Chapter 2: The City -- Chapter 3: The Invasion -- Chapter 4: The House -- Part Two: The Men, First Verse -- Chapter 5: Joe, Jimmie, and Butch, Part 1 -- Chapter 6: Compañeros -- Part Three: The Music -- Chapter 7: Genesis -- Chapter 8: More a Legend -- Chapter 9: Diaspora -- Part Four: The Men, Second Verse -- Chapter 10: Joe, Jimmie, and Butch, Part 2 -- Part Five: The Return -- Chapter 11: More a Band -- Chapter 12: Alchemy: Now Again -- Chapter 13: Cruising Speed: Wheels of Fortune and Live ’72 -- Chapter 14: Dust to Dust: Hills and Valleys -- Chapter 15: Closing the Circle: Th e Odessa Tapes -- Epilogue: Carnegie Hall: Practice, Practice, Practice -- Discography