Austin’s roving soul Flatlander archives road-hog song collection
-ism – the Austin troubadour’s 23rd album since 1977 pinpoints his lifelong wanderlust. Impossibly 77 years young while also victim to life-threatening health events during the pandemic, Ely taps one of his truest selves onRecorded and produced locally at his Spur Studios, the thematic collection strips the journeyman Lone Star to his essence. No track features more than three musicians, more than half of these dozen tracks magnetizing musical duets.
Moreover, the Grammy winner, alongside Tex-Mex supergroup Los Super Seven in 1998, trafficks in the Flatlanders’ preternatural gift: wordplay. Some boys play with language rather than guns, although yours truly once watched Ely brandish a shotgun atop his backyard gulch to eradicate a rattlesnake in a riverbed 100 yards below us.
I’m a driving man, I’m a driving man I’m travelin’ light, roaring through the night I’m a driving man“Drivin’ Man” begins the road trip behind an Ely and Guzman pairing, the former’s steady steel rainfall of acoustic guitar and stark lyric offset by the warmth of the latter’s accordion light rays. Nearly reprising the compadres’ 2008 album.
A big hog word roar , sole solo turn “San Antonio Brawl,” and some Flatlanders-ready Southwestern sauce also keep pedal to metal. As such,has been Austin’s independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the community’s political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene. Now more than ever, we need your support to continue supplying Austin with independent, free press.
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