Joe Ely - Driven to Drive - LP COLOURED

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Sunburst Vinyl
  • Description

    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, motorcycle, Greyhound bus. There are pedal-to-the-metal anthems ginning down a straight strip of twolane 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.

    Side A :
    Drivin' Man / Odds of the Blues / For Your Love / Watchin' Them Semis Roll / Didn't We Robbie / Nashville Is A Catfish

    Side B :
    Ride Motorcycle / San Antonio Brawl / Slave to the the Western Wind / Gulf Coast Blues / Driven to Drive / Jackhammer Rock

  • Additional Information

    Band Joe Ely
    Title Driven to Drive
    Label Rack'em Records
    Generic musical style Rock / Hard Rock / Glam
    Detailed musical style Country Americana
    Bar code 0691835876733
    Catalog # RER0014
    Release Date 2 Aug 2024
    Color Multicolour

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