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Her vocal interchange with Ely carries a soulful reminder of how two fine artists create magic through chemistry and the sheer joy of sharing together in a great country song and, sadly, how much we will miss her voice due to her struggles with Parkinson’s disease.” – Twang Nation https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603d0ae646b5cf505a41c31b/1614524660585/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “There’s a short roster of rock and roll performers (Jagger, Springsteen) who can rivet your attention every time they step onstage. If you grew up in Texas, here’s a name on that list: Joe Ely. Those who have seen Ely give his all, particularly with his early Jesse Taylor/Ponty Bone band or with David Grissom in the mid-eighties—or really in most any other configuration—know what others may not have gleaned from his studio albums: His performances are absolutely electric. Small wonder he has now released Live Cactus! (Rack ’Em), his fourth live album. Joined on accordion by his frequent (and brilliant) collaborator Joel Guzman, he turns what could have been an intimate Austin coffeehouse snooze into a rave-up. There’s nothing here—save a duet with Ryan Bingham on Townes Van Zandt’s “White Freightliner Blues”—that Ely hasn’t recorded before, but Guzman, who always knows just the right thing to play, lends a new flavor to old favorites. Ely, meanwhile, accelerates the excitement with the slightest nuance again and again, making the hundred-plus audience respond as if it were ten times larger.” – Jeff McCord / Texas Monthly https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603d0ae646b5cf505a41c324/1614525713268/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “Ely and Ronstadt achieved a truly spellbinding dynamic on what went on to become a classic of Ely’s; and while it’s kind of a shame it took so long for the world to hear this recording, fans should feel fortunate that it happened in the first place, and grateful that it finally found its way out of the vault.” – The Music Enthusiast https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603d0ae646b5cf505a41c318/1614553956314/LIVE.jpg PRESS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603d0ae646b5cf505a41c31e/1614524660590/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “Joe Ely is noted for the spectacular band combinations he’s brought to Gruene Hall over the years, but a favorite has been his show with Grammy Award-winning accordion player, Joel Guzman. The duet of Ely and Guzman is supremely harmonious, excelling with skillful renditions of Ely’s original songs that appeal to the heart of Texas music fans — the two recorded the critically acclaimed CD, Live Cactus.” – San Antonio Current https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603d0b1973d375051e2a686f/1614555949656/live%2Bchicago.jpg PRESS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603d0b1973d375051e2a6872/1614524660590/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS If you haven't seen Joe Ely live you have missed one hard working, entertaining performer that gives his all, even playing solo acoustic, but on this disc he has one of the hottest bands you will ever hear. This concert captures the essence and sweat of the music these guys grew up with and played with, hard working performers that go out of their way every night in a new town to put their names into the hearts and minds of those who come to see them. “This is what you want a live disc to be, the songs you associate with the band, plus a couple of lesser known tunes to break things up done with the passion and excitement that only an appreciative crowd can elicit. One of the best and most exciting live discs I've heard.” – Bob Gottleib / FAME Magazine https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bb9d2e1d214172d200edb/1614525200101/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “Ely still sings with agility and swagger, though retrospection and mortality tie together the songs here. There's a rueful mood to "Not That Much Has Changed", about a soldier's return home, but mostly Ely's tone is philosophical. "The Highway is My Home" is defiant roadhouse rock, while the bluesy "I'm a Man Now" and scratchy reggae of "Roll Again" both shrug off the past. Best of all is "Circumstance", by Ely's former Flatlanders bandmate Butch Hancock, a cowboy's tribute to the endless trail.” – The Guardian https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603c2d550180d028667a29c6/1614556514635/SATIS.jpg PRESS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bb9d2e1d214172d200ede/1614525200105/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “Satisfied at Last’ is a mature testament to aging gracefully as a high-spirited yet often inwardly directed Texas troubadour. One need hardly mention anymore the significant influence he had on the young, impressionable Clash.” —Village Voice https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bb9d2e1d214172d200ee1/1614525200109/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “The second song on Joe Ely's 2011 album Satisfied at Last is titled "Not That Much Has Changed," and it's hard not to think that sums up the album pretty well. That isn't an insult: Ely has been making records since 1972, he knows his craft well, and he's still one of the most consistently rewarding artists to come out of the Texas singer/songwriter community. His voice is in great shape on Satisfied at Last, he brings a genuine passion and soul to his performances in the studio, and his tales of outlaws and ramblers trying to make their way under the big sky of the Southwest are still resonant, intelligent, and down to earth.Joe Ely is still one of the best things the Lone Star State has to offer, and Satisfied at Last shows he's not about to stop making albums worth hearing, and still finding things to say within the style he's made his own.” – Mark Deming / AllMusic https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bb9d2e1d214172d200ed8/1614524660590/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “Under any circumstance, Joe Ely is a great, gripping live performer. But this time, there are two more good reasons to make your way through the back roads of Bucks County. One is that Satisfied at Last, the Lubbock, Texas-born Flatlander's new album, is his best in years, a rock solid collection of originals that take stock after 40 plus years on the road without settling for sentimentality or giving up on romance. Plus, it's juiced with a Tex-Mex take on Billy Joe Shaver's "Live Forever," and two superb new songs written by Ely's fellow Flatlander Butch Hancock.” — Dan Deluca / Philadelphia Inquirer https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603c2e798691930fd3eae6f2/1614615831602/B4.jpg PRESS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bb9200180d028666fad8d/1614524979559/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “Joe Ely has long been an early cyber-adopter – one of the first musicians to make active use of a website and, as a visual artists, one who’s consistently meditated between the machine and the human heart. But nowhere was he more ahead of his time (and place) than within this music of three decades ago, when the computer was consider anathema to ‘authenticity,’ particularly in the realms of country, roadhouse twang or whatever you call what eventually became lumped togetheras Americana. For Ely fans, this release is essential listening – a long-missing piece of the puzzle.” – Don McLeese / Texas Music https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bb9200180d028666fad8a/1614524660590/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “Guess what?Joe Ely was not only ahead of his time, he was right on the money. Back then Ely was calling the sound “digibilly,” and he was only partially kidding. There are ten rocking songs here, and whether its a machine or a human making the noise everything comes across with a distinctive heartbeat and a Lone Star flair. Great music is great music no matter how it’s made, and something Ely signed on for 50 years ago and has no intention of stopping. Sample that!” – Bill Bentley / The Morton Report https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bb9200180d028666fad87/1614524660585/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “As we know, many great musicians record and produce directly on their personal computers these days. I am thankful for everything that Joe and others like him have done to move our world forward.” – Steve Wozniak /Apple Computer co-founder https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bb7badea190701aa4a9a4/1614524660585/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “I've been playing (Panhandle Rambler) the last few days. Joe's stories are like watching a movie in Cinemascope and technicolor. He did a perfect job...” — Linda Ronstadt https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603c2c10785a1a1f89e1d5f6/1614556182614/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “Panhandle Rambler is a terrific record that’s right up there with the best works of Ely’s career!” — David Menconi / Rolling Stone https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603c2bf4682224531302104f/1614556157604/PAN.jpg PRESS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bb9e2d5c9360a363b86e7/1614525200109/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “Joe Ely sounds like a Texas version of honky-tonkin’Hank Williams in these first set of countrified outings captured on The Lubbock Tapes but as it unfolds his rock n’ roll persona comes to the fore as well. It’s a look back to the genesis of Ely’s solo career.” —Jim Hynes / Glide Magazine https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603c2ca773d375051e1ba0e4/1614613642954/FULL.jpg PRESS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603c2cdb4d59d16018e355ed/1614613642957/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “All in all (or all my love, as Joe might have it); Full Circle is no HOLY GRAIL but it may give you an idea of the excitement the Ely Band generated when they blew together on the high plains of Lubbock lo those many years ago. And if, somehow, you’ve never heard Joe (perish the thought) this is as good a place to start as any!” — Jon Houlon / Phawker https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bb9e2d5c9360a363b86da/1614524660585/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “With a music career that spans over four decades, Joe Ely has not only created a specific image but an entire genre of music.” — Jan Sikes / Buddy https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bb9e2d5c9360a363b86e3/1614525200105/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “The Lubbock Tapes provide a unique insight into Ely’s early career and what made him appealing to a variety of songwriters.Highly recommended” — Mike Cobb / Elmore “Four and a half stars! (out of five). The Lubbock Tapes: Full Circle serves as an audio portrait of a developing artist.Four decades after its recording, The Lubbock Tapes: Full Circle can be seen as providing an artistic blueprint for Ely’s rich and varied career.” — Tom Wilk / Icon—Village Voice https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bb9e2d5c9360a363b86dd/1614524660590/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “The Lubbock Tapes collects two batches of remarkably clean-sounding demos.Though his identity as a passionate, forthright troubadour was fully formed from the start, these 15 tracks offer a fascinating chronicle of Ely’s creative evolution as he expanded his stylistic repertoire by adding driving rock and roll to the weary ballads and honky-tonk shuffles. — Jon Young / Mother Jones https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bb9e2d5c9360a363b86e0/1614525200101/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “Still making new music worth hearing — 2015’s Panhandle Rambler is among Austin’s best records of this decade — Ely’s also been digging into his archives lately. Now comes this entirely enjoyable 15-track compilation of previously unreleased demos from 1974 to 1978, documenting the moment Ely’s music began to take shape before his first solo record as well as a period before his third album that shows a shift toward a more rocking band and style. In terms of historical / reissue projects from Austin acts this year, this one’s going to be hard to top.” — Peter Blackstock / Austin American Statesman– The Guardian https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bc5712f41aa1a09c36e3f/1614525200109/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “While this may sound counterintuitive to say about a largely acoustic album, say it I will — the next time the specter of our current conditions gets you down, I beseech you to play this album loud, because I can practically guarantee it will make you feel better. It’s that good. Bless you, Joe Ely.” —John Michael Antonio / Americana Highways https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bc5712f41aa1a09c36e36/1614524660590/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “Is it possible after 50 years to make the very best album of a long and illustrious career? If you’re Joe Ely it absolutely is. Listening to Love in the Midst of Mayhem is to hear why music will always be our guiding light, and Joe Ely is the man beaming that light the brightest. Let it shine.” — Bill Bentley / Bentley’s Bandstand / Americana Highways https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bc5712f41aa1a09c36e3c/1614525200105/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “(Ely) remains a reassuring presence whose easy blend of weary stoicism and gentle empathy suggests everything will eventually turn out more or less ok, which doesn’t sound like bad news at all.” —Jon M. Young / The Big Takeover https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603c2c744f7eff1aa5fc6cda/1626387128392/LOVE.jpg PRESS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bc5efdea190701aa59780/1626387128396/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “Leave it to Joe Ely to deliver the first set of songs meant directly for this health pandemic. There is an intimacy to these songs that inevitably conveys warmth and though sparse at times in terms of accompaniment, the musicians always stay sensitive and the production values come through brilliantly. Thanks to Joe Ely for keeping us grounded and reminding us of what’s important.” — Jim Hynes / Glide Magazine https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bc5712f41aa1a09c36e39/1614525200101/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “There are a lot of wonderful songs on Love in the Midst of Mayhem. especially love ‘You Can Rely On Me’ - so sweet a song. As always we can rely on Joe and in this time of Pandemic appreciate his music even more.” — Jo Harvey Allen / Actress, writer https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fd4de0f674bc6778f3eb60a/t/603bc5712f41aa1a09c36e33/1614524660585/Screen+Shot+2021-02-27+at+7.09.34+PM.png PRESS “It’s put together straight from the emergency we have right now,” says Ely friend and acclaimed artist Terry Allen. “Every song is about love, for love, to love and with love… love when we need it most. 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