Jimmie Dale Gilmore News

There's a commonly held belief that the greatest musicians are tortured, difficult people who are hard to live with, even to be around.

Music was the only path for Colin Gilmore, even though he didn't totally commit to it until his mid-20s. Gilmore, the son of famed Americana singing artist Jimmie Dale Gilmore, grew up as his father did in Lubbock, Texas.

Reporting from Albuquerque - Texas singer-songwriter Joe Ely has been in love with trains his whole life.

The Flatlanders are on the road with their fourth album "Hills and Valleys." In the early '70s, Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock returned to Lubbock from, as Hancock says, "various parts of the planet." "We all wound up at the same places where there was great roots music and backyard guitar pulls," Hancock said from somewhere on a ...

The trio's latest album, Hills & Valleys , fits perfectly in the Obama era, one begun with a serious push to deal with the plethora of problems facing us the people.

Texas' original super group, the Flatlanders, unites acclaimed Lone Star singer-songwriters Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock.

Braced by the intellectual energy of a 40-year friendship, members of the Flatlanders set their impressive solo careers aside long enough to write and record their most moving and impressive album to date.

I f there was such a thing as a "supergroup" of west Texas singer-songwriters, the Flatlanders would have to be it.

The May 28 show with the Flatlanders - the trio featuring alt-country icons Butch Hancock, Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore - at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz has been canceled, according to the presenter, Snazzy Productions.

If one measure of a great artist is the ability to transform topical themes into timeless statements, the Flatlanders are shoo-ins for the songwriters' hall of fame.

Every genre of music has its Ur-band, those lesser-known dudes who create the sound that goes mainstream without them.

"You know the funny thing about the blues?" Bonnie Raitt prefaced "Thing Called Love" at the Bass Concert Hall on Sunday night.

The word has spread like grief fire through Austin that Stephen Bruton, a triple threat as guitarist, producer and songwriter, lost his battle with cancer.

The Austin music community is mourning the loss of a capital city legend this Saturday.

Today's birthdays May 6 HERMANN J. KNIPPERTZ Actor George Clooney is 48. Singer Bob Seger is 64.