Meant to post this a few weeks ago: The great Joe Ely has recently passed.
Texas songwriter Joe Ely, whose career took him from the dusty and flat landscape of the Texas Panhandle around the world, collaborating with fellow troubadours Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock in The Flatlanders and rocking out with The Clash, died Monday at his home in Taos, New Mexico from complications of Lewy Body Dementia, Parkinson’s and pneumonia. The announcement was made on the singer-songwriter’s Facebook page. Ely was 78.
Joe Ely is finally at rest. The superb Texas singer-songwriter, a favorite of Bruce Springsteen and Austin City Limits, passed away Monday at age 78, his family announced. The High Plains dust devil has been stilled; the midnight train has disappeared over the horizon. Turns out the road does not go on forever, but Ely got a lot further down it than most of us ever will.
