Driven to Drive - Joe Ely - Music - Rack 'Em Records - 0691835876733 - August 2, 2024
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Driven to Drive Sunburst Coloured Vinyl edition

Joe Ely

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Twenty-three albums and several million miles after he first hit the road, Joe Ely presents his first road album, Driven to Drive. The collection of songs about and inspired by motorized travel was curated by Ely, who in the mid-1970s swept off the flat plains of the Llano Estacado of West Texas like a whirling tornado, fronting a legendary band that was too rock for country and too country for rock. The wild, wide-open honky-tonk roadhouse sound of the Joe Ely Band gave their hometown of Lubbock its first music hero since Buddy Holly.

The project stitches together recordings made at Spur Studios, his home recording facility outside of Austin, over several decades, assisted by musician/neighbors Joel Guzman on accordion, keyboardist Bill Guinn, singer Eddie Beethoven, and fiddler Richard Bowden. Last year at The Zone in Dripping Springs, Texas, Jeff Plankenhorn added his guitar to three tracks and engineer Pat Manske, who mastered Driven to Drive, added percussion.

Movement in these songs is measured in many ways: cars, sixteen-wheelers, motorcycles, Greyhound bus. There are pedal-to-the-metal anthems ginning down a straight strip of two-lane blacktop; a lazy meander on the Gulf blues highway; a tale of going on the lam on the Interstate; stories of getting from Here to There, and songs about going nowhere at all.

The Lord of the Highway is calling. Joe Ely wants to take you for a ride.

Media Music     VINYL     LP   (Vinyl)
Number of records 1
Released August 2, 2024
EAN/UPC 0691835876733
Label Rack 'Em Records RAEM14.1
Genre Country
Dimensions 280 × 316 × 4 mm   ·   225 g

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