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The Flatlanders

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The Flatlanders are an American country band from Lubbock, Texas, United States, founded in 1972 by Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock. [1]

29 relations: Alternative country, Austin, Texas, Autoharp, Billboard 200, Billboard charts, Butch Hancock, Country music, Country rock, Double bass, Fiddle, Honky-tonk, Independent Albums, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, Kerrville Folk Festival, L.A. Record, Lubbock, Texas, Mandolin, Memphis, Tennessee, Musical saw, New West Records, Plantation Records, Rounder Records, Sun Studio, The Horse Whisperer (film), The Phoenix (newspaper), Tommy Hancock, Top Heatseekers, 8-track tape.

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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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Autoharp

The Autoharp is a musical instrument in the chorded zither family.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.

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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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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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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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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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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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Independent Albums

The Independent Albums chart (previously titled Top Independent Albums) ranks the highest-selling independent music albums and extended plays (EPs) in the United States, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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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

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.

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Kerrville Folk Festival

The Kerrville Folk Festival is a music festival held for 18 consecutive days in the late spring/early summer at Quiet Valley Ranch near Kerrville, Texas.

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L.A. Record

L.A. Record is an independent music magazine originally published weekly as a broadsheet poster.

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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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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Musical saw

A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is a hand saw used as a musical instrument.

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New West Records

New West Records is a record label based in Nashville, Tennessee, and Athens, Georgia.

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Plantation Records

Plantation Records was a country music record label of the 1960s and 1970s helmed by Shelby Singleton.

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Rounder Records

Rounder Records is an American record label specializing in folk, bluegrass, blues, and other forms of American roots music.

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Sun Studio

Sun Studio is a recording studio opened by rock-and-roll pioneer Sam Phillips at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 3, 1950.

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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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The Phoenix (newspaper)

The Phoenix (stylized as The Phœnix) was the name of several alternative weekly periodicals published in the United States of America by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts, including the Portland Phoenix and the now-defunct Boston Phoenix, Providence Phoenix and Worcester Phoenix.

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Tommy Hancock

Thomas O. Hancock (Tommy X. Hancock) (born March 25, 1929) is widely regarded as the godfather of West Texas music.

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Top Heatseekers

Top Heatseekers are "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine.

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8-track tape

The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly known as the eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, or simply eight-track) is a magnetic tape sound-recording technology that was popular in the United States from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when the Compact Cassette format took over.

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References

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

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