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Joe Ely

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Joe Ely (born February 9, 1947, Amarillo, Texas, United States) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music touches on honky-tonk, Texas country, Tex-Mex and rock and roll. [1]

61 relations: Accordion, Alejandro Escovedo, Alice Cooper, Alternative country, Amarillo, Texas, Americana (music), Americana Music Association, Bruce Springsteen, Butch Hancock, Ciudad Juárez, Country rock, Country Standard Time, Don Cornelius, El Paso, Texas, Flamenco, Guitar, Guitarist, Guy Clark, Heartland rock, HighTone Records, Honky-tonk, James McMurtry, Jason & the Scorchers, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely (album), Joe Strummer, John Hiatt, Kaki Hunter, Laredo, Texas, London, Los Super Seven, Lubbock, Texas, Lyle Lovett, MCA Inc., Meat Loaf, Monterey High School (Lubbock, Texas), Music of Austin, Texas, Nashville Scene, Outlaw country, Progressive country, Punk rock, Roadie (1980 film), Robert Redford, Rock and roll, Rockabilly, Rolling Stone, Should I Stay or Should I Go, Singer-songwriter, Singing, Tejano music, ..., Texas, Texas country music, Teye, The Chieftains, The Clash, The Flatlanders, The Horse Whisperer (film), Uncle Tupelo, United States, University of Texas Press, West Texas. Expand index (11 more) »

Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.

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Alejandro Escovedo

Alejandro Escovedo (born January 10, 1951, in San Antonio, Texas) is a Mexican-American rock musician, songwriter, and singer, who has been recording and touring since the late 1970s.

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Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over fifty years.

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Alternative country

Alternative country (sometimes alt-country, insurgent country, or Americana) is a loosely defined subgenre of country music and rock music, which includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream country music and pop country music.

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Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo is the 14th-most populous city in the state of Texas, United States.

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Americana (music)

Americana is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States, specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, gospel, and other external influences.

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Americana Music Association

The Americana Music Association (AMA) is a professional not-for-profit trade organization whose mission is to advocate for the authentic voice of American Roots Music around the world.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work with the E Street Band.

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Butch Hancock

Butch Hancock (born July 12, 1945 in Lubbock, Texas), is a country/folk music recording artist and songwriter.

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Ciudad Juárez

Ciudad Juárez (Juarez City) is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

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Country rock

Country rock is a subgenre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock and country.

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Country Standard Time

Country Standard Time is a website dedicated to country music and related genres including Americana, bluegrass and rockabilly.

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Don Cornelius

Donald Cortez "Don" Cornelius (September 27, 1936 – February 1, 2012) was an American television show host and producer who was best known as the creator of the nationally syndicated dance and music show Soul Train, which he hosted from 1971 until 1993.

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El Paso, Texas

El Paso (from Spanish, "the pass") is a city in and the seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.

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Flamenco

Flamenco, in its strictest sense, is a professionalized art-form based on the various folkloric music traditions of Southern Spain in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Extremadura and Murcia.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Guitarist

A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar.

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Guy Clark

Guy Charles Clark (November 6, 1941 – May 17, 2016) was an American Texas country and folk singer, musician, songwriter, recording artist, and performer.

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Heartland rock

Heartland rock is a genre of rock music that is exemplified by singer-songwriters Tom Petty, Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp.

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HighTone Records

HighTone Records was an American independent record label based in Oakland, California, United States.

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Honky-tonk

A honky-tonk (also called honkatonk, honkey-tonk, or tonk) is both a bar that provides country music for the entertainment of its patrons and the style of music played in such establishments.

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James McMurtry

James McMurtry (born March 18, 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American rock and folk rock/americana singer, songwriter, guitarist, bandleader, and occasional actor (Daisy Miller, Lonesome Dove, and narrator of Ghost Town: 24 Hours in Terlingua).

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Jason & the Scorchers

Jason & the Scorchers, originally Jason & the Nashville Scorchers, are an alternative country band that formed in 1981 and are led by singer/songwriter Jason Ringenberg.

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Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Jimmie Dale Gilmore (born May 6, 1945) is an American country singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin, Texas.

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Joe Ely (album)

Joe Ely is the 1977 debut album by Texas singer-songwriter, Joe Ely.

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Joe Strummer

John Graham Mellor (21 August 1952 – 22 December 2002), known by his stage name Joe Strummer, was an English musician, singer, actor and songwriter who was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of the Clash, a punk rock band formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk.

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John Hiatt

John Robert Hiatt (born August 20, 1952) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.

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Kaki Hunter

Kaki Hunter (born Katherine Susan Hunter; November 6, 1955) is an American actress, architect, and writer, perhaps best known for her role in the trilogy of Porky's films in the 1980s.

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Laredo, Texas

Laredo is the county seat of Webb County, Texas, United States, on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Los Super Seven

Los Super Seven are a predominantly Latin American supergroup which debuted in 1998.

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Lubbock, Texas

Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States.

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Lyle Lovett

Lyle Pearce Lovett (born November 1, 1957) at Allmusic – Lovett's Genre and Styles.

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MCA Inc.

MCA Inc.

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Meat Loaf

Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday; September 27, 1947), better known by his stage name Meat Loaf, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor.

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Monterey High School (Lubbock, Texas)

Monterey High School is a 5A high school located in central Lubbock, Texas, United States (Monterey High School became a 6A school at the beginning of the 2014-2015 academic year per the UIL realignment announcement of February 2012).

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Music of Austin, Texas

Music of Austin, Texas: Austin's official motto is the "Live Music Capital of the World" because on any given night, one can find over one hundred venues showcasing a wide variety of free - live music performances.

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Nashville Scene

Nashville Scene is an alternative newsweekly in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Outlaw country

Outlaw country is a subgenre of American country music, most popular during the 1970s and early 1980s, sometimes referred to as the outlaw movement or simply outlaw music.

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Progressive country

Progressive country is a subgenre of country music developed in the early 1970s.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Roadie (1980 film)

Roadie is a 1980 film directed by Alan Rudolph about a truck driver who becomes a roadie for a traveling rock and roll show.

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Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor, director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, and philanthropist.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Should I Stay or Should I Go

"Should I Stay or Should I Go" is a song by the English punk rock band the Clash, from their album Combat Rock.

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Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Tejano music

Tejano music or Tex-Mex music (Texan-Mexican music) is the name given to various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Texas country music

Texas country music (more popularly known just as Texas country or Texas music) is a rapidly growing subgenre of American country music.

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Teye

Teye (pronounced tie-ya, born 1957 as Teije Wijnterp) is a Dutch guitarist, best known for his flamenco guitar work with the Joe Ely band between 1994 and 2000.

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The Chieftains

The Chieftains are a traditional Irish band formed in Dublin in 1963, by Paddy Moloney, Sean Potts and Michael Tubridy.

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The Clash

The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock.

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The Flatlanders

The Flatlanders are an American country band from Lubbock, Texas, United States, founded in 1972 by Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock.

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The Horse Whisperer (film)

The Horse Whisperer is a 1998 American drama film directed by and starring Robert Redford, based on the 1995 novel The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans.

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Uncle Tupelo

Uncle Tupelo was an alternative country music group from Belleville, Illinois, active between 1987 and 1994.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Texas Press

The University of Texas Press (or UT Press) is a university press that is part of the University of Texas at Austin.

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West Texas

West Texas is a loosely defined part of the U.S. state of Texas, generally encompassing the arid and semiarid lands west of a line drawn between the cities of Wichita Falls, Abilene, and Del Rio.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ely

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