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Joe Ely - Live at Liberty Lunch (1990)
Audio CD - MCA MCAD-10095
Original release date - October 16, 1990
Recorded April 21 & 22, 1989 at Liberty Lunch in Austin, Texas.
Total time - 68:30
Track Listing:
01. Me and Billy The Kid
02. Are You Listenin' Lucky?
03. Grandfather Blues
04. B.B.Q. & Foam
05. Row Of Dominoes
06. Dallas
07. Where Is My Love?
08. She Gotta Get The Gettin'
09. Drivin' To the Poorhouse in a Limousine
10. Cool Rockin' Loretta
11. Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
12. Letter to L.A.
13. If You Were a Bluebird
Personnel:
Joe Ely - acoustic and electric guitars, vocals
David Grissom - lead guitar - backing vocals
Jimmy Petit - bass, backing vocals
Davis Mclarty - drums
Additional personnel:
Butch Handcock - guitar and vocals on "If You Were a Bluebird"
Joe Ely (born February 9, 1947 in Amarillo, Texas) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music touches on honky-tonk, country and rock and roll.
He has had a genre-crossing career, performing with Bruce Springsteen, Los Super Seven, and James McMurtry in addition to his early work with The Clash and more recent acoustic tours with Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, and Guy Clark.
Biography
Early life and career
Ely spent his formative years from age 12 in Lubbock, Texas.
Shortly after high school, in 1970, with fellow Lubbock musicians Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock, he formed The Flatlanders. According to Ely, "Jimmie [Gilmore] was like a well of country music. He knew everything about it. And Butch was from the folk world. I was kinda the rock & roll guy, and we almost had a triad. We hit it off and started playing a lot together. That opened up a whole new world I had never known existed."
Solo career
Ely's own first, self titled album, was released in 1977.
The following year, his band played London, where he met punk rock group The Clash. Impressed with each other's performances, the two bands would later tour together, including appearances in Ely's hometown of Lubbock, as well as Laredo and Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, across the border from El Paso, Texas. Ely would contribute backing vocals on the Clash single "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" from Combat Rock (1982), and Ely's Live Shots includes photos of Clash member Joe Strummer performing as a guest with Ely's band.
Throughout his career, Ely has issued a steady stream of albums, most on the MCA label. Ely's energetic live performances have become legendary, and he has released a live album roughly every ten years (the last was Live at Antone's in 2000).
In the late 1990s Ely was asked to write songs for the soundtrack of Robert Redford's movie The Horse Whisperer, which led to re-forming The Flatlanders with Gilmore and Hancock. A new album from the trio followed in 2002, with a third in 2004.
In February 2007, Ely released Happy Songs From Rattlesnake Gulch on his own label, Rack 'Em Records. Ely said in an interview with Country Standard Time that he thought it would be easier to release the material on his own label instead of dealing with a regular record label and their release cycles. A book of Ely's writings, Bonfire of Roadmaps, was published in early 2007 by the University of Texas Press. In early 2008, Ely released a new live album featuring Joel Guzman on accordion recorded at the Cactus Cafe in Austin, Texas late 2006.
The Flatlanders are working on a new album as well.
Discography
Joe Ely, 1977, MCA
Honky Tonk Masquerade, 1978, MCA
Down On The Drag, 1979, MCA
Live Shots, 1980, MCA (credited to The Joe Ely Band)
Texas Special (4-song studio EP included with the original Live Shots LP)
Musta Notta Gotta Lotta, 1981, MCA
Hi-Res, 1984, MCA
Lord Of The Highway, 1987, Hightone Records
Dig All Night, 1988, Hightone Records
Milkshakes And Malts, 1988, Sunstorm Records
What Ever Happened To Maria, 1988, Sunstorm Records
Live At Liberty Lunch, 1990, MCA
Love And Danger, 1993, MCA
Chippy, 1995, Hollywood Records
Letter To Laredo, 1995, MCA
Live at Cambridge, 1998, Strange Fruit Records
Twistin' In The Wind, 1998, MCA
Los Super Seven, (as band member) 1999, RCA Nashville
Live At Antones, 2000, Antones Records
Now Again (with The Flatlanders), 2002
Review from All Music:
The standard issue live album usually works as a "Greatest Hits" disc with some crowd noise in the background, but since Joe Ely has never been blessed with hit records in the traditional sense, for 1990's Live At Liberty Lunch he was able to pull from the cream of his catalog rather than playing favorites, and thanks to his well-documented strength as a live performer, he was able to turn all thirteen numbers into crowd pleasers no matter how well (or little) known they were. Recorded during a two-night stand at the fabled Austin, Texas venue, Live At Liberty Lunch lacks the fire and intensity of Ely's superb 1980 concert set Live Shots, but the ten years that separates the two albums isn't all to Live at Liberty Lunch's disadvantage. While the earlier album may have drawn most of its songs from three of Ely's best albums, here he's able to rescue some superb songs that got lost in the shuffle ("Cool Rockin' Loretta" and "She Gotta Get The Gettin'" prove there was some fine material on Hi-Res despite the wrong-headed production), and the otherwise unavailable "Drivin' To The Poorhouse In A Limousine" is one of Ely's best rockers. Ely's band is in sterling form here (especially David Grissom on guitar and Davis McLarty on drums), and if the tone of this album is more mature and subdued than the raucous Live Shots, Ely is more than up to the challenge of making the songs communicate, and from the first verse of "Me and Billy The Kid" he has the audience in the palm of his hand. In short, this preserves a truly gifted writer and performer having a great night in front of an appreciative audience in his hometown, and in this case that's the formula for a superior live disc.
~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
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