How long do you have to make good music before the world sits up and takes notice? In the case of Joe Ely, the answer may be nearly half a century. The first of his more than two dozen excellent solo ...

So states Joe Ely in the Driven to Drive album press, penned with typical panache by Texas music’s homegrown Homer, Joe Nick Patoski. Road songs all recorded at home – that sounds like a Butch Hancock ...

Veteran singer-songwriter Joe Ely, 78, has been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia and Parkinson’s disease, it was announced Tuesday, Sept. 9 on his official Facebook account. “Together with his wife ...