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Help Austin Help Haiti Benefit – Austin, TX

01.25.2010 | No Comments »
Joe Ely & Jimmie Dale Gilmore

When disaster strikes, the musicians of Austin are quick to respond with a benefit concert. For the people of Haiti that were devastated by the earthquake two weeks ago, Joe Ely and over twenty of his most talented friends joined together with some 2,000 music lovers for a ten hour marathon concert at the Austin Music Hall Sunday to raise money and show support.

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Americana Awards Nominations

05.25.2009 | No Comments »
Americana Music Awards Logo

Nominations for the 8th Annual Americana Awards were announced last week and Buddy Miller seems to be the hands-down darling this year with a nomination in every category besides the “new & emerging artist.”

The award show, scheduled on Sept. 17 will be hosted by Jim Lauderdale and will feature a band led by, who else, Buddy Miller.

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Austin City Limits Season 34

10.07.2008 | No Comments »
Austin City Limits Logo

After 34 seasons, Austin City Limits is the longest running live concert television show.

Beginning as a humble local venue to showcase local Texas artists, the series has grown to feature a wide variety of musical styles and genres.

The new season began last week with an encore showing of R.E.M. but new shows begin this week with Bettye LaVette and Pinetop Perkins.

Other episodes will feature acts such as Lyle Lovett (with his friends John Hiatt, Guy Clark, and Joe Ely), Jakob Dylan, My Morning Jacket, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Carolyn Wonderland, and Aimee Mann.

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Roundup: Driving Tunes

07.25.2008 | No Comments »

Maybe it was the time you drove 16 hours to see your girlfriend/boyfriend.

Or the summer you had to visit Aunt Edna in Alabama.

Or that one time you and 4 of your closest friends decided to follow String Cheese Incident (or any other band) across the country in a beat up van.

Chances are you’ve been stuck in the seat of a car for far too long at some point in your life and can at least sympathize with the truckers who haul food and other such goodies.

In this roundup we’ll look at driving of various origin.

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Listen to: Los Super Seven

05.14.2008 | No Comments »
Los Super Seven
Heard It on the X

What happens when you toss Rick Treviño, Ruben Ramos, David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, Joe Ely, John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett with just about every other fantastic musician within a few hundred miles? You get Los Super 7 – the Grammy winning super group singing songs from both sides of the border.

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Joe Ely – Antone’s, TX

03.17.2008 | No Comments »
Joe Ely and Ryan Bingham
Joe Ely and Ryan Bingham

Antone’s hosted the American Music Association party for SXSW that included Joe Ely, Buddy Miller, and James McMurtry.

Joe Ely was introduced as an “ambassador for Texas” that had been honored at the Americana Awards in Nashville by Lyle Lovett and Patty Griffin from the Texas music clan in September.

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Guy Clark, Joe Ely, John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett – Ikeda Theater, AZ

02.08.2007 | No Comments »

These guys have all made huge names for themselves on their own, so seeing any of them is a treat not to be missed. Seeing all four on the same stage in the round is like Christmas, Birthdays and Halloween all rolled into one.

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