Back in 2009, the Flatlanders released Hills and Valleys, their last album of original recordings. A dozen years later, the Texas trio of Butch Hancock, Joe Ely, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore reunite for a ...

40 years ago: From left to right: Steve Wesson, Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Tony Pearson, Joe Ely. (Butch Hancock.) How does a band make it to the point where it can celebrate 40 years ...

Legendary Texas-based trio The Flatlanders announced plans to release their first album of newly recorded music in more than 12 years, titled Treasure of Love. Coming to the world on July 9 via ...

Joe Ely, the Texas singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was at the forefront of the Seventies’ progressive country movement as both a solo artist and part of the group the Flatlanders, died Monday at ...

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 ...

A longstanding source of amusement among Texas music aficionados is the title chosen for a posthumous collection of country-tinged Buddy Holly recordings—“Holly in the Hills.” Anyone even remotely ...

Over the years, the Flatlanders—Lubbock’s Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock—have earned a reputation as Americana music’s first supergroup, leading the way with a rootsy mix of country ...

Lubbock, Texas, schoolmates Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock dissolved The Flatlanders some 15-plus years before most people ever heard their early recordings, which Rounder re-released ...

Los Angeles-based independent label New West Records will release a new album by the Flatlanders, the neo-country supergroup featuring Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock, on May 21. The… ...

This is the first of a two-part series of explorations of the long, bewildering discographies of Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock, who will be preforming together as The Flatlanders ...

Despite recording two years ago their first album together in 28 years, the Flatlanders remain more a chapter in Texas troubadour mythology than an actual working band. That Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale ...