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"Wandering isn't fun," Ely recalls.
"It's colorful misery." Home again in Texas, Joe started working some of those miserable shades into songs. There were several false starts and at least one more hard-times visit to New York, where, Ely recalls, "I was mostly singin' in the subways and in front of...
Finally, in 1974, Ely put together the nucleus of a band, and released his first big-time record in 1977. Big time and big business are not necessarily the same, however, and although the personnel in the band have changed, Ely's hot-poker music still gets the same...
Joe Strummer of the Clash recognized a kindred spirit and invited Ely and his band to share billing on a European tour in 1979. The punk audience, Ely remembers, "threw shirts, hot dogs, bottles and panties at us. We threw back a crate of ice, and they loved it." The...
Ely's songs, like those of his crony and frequent collaborator Butch Hancock, are bleak and wistful and angry, awash in the colors that Joe picked up on all of his magical misery tours. Ely's band, along with the traditional complement of bass, rhythm guitar and drums...