
Rack 'Em
Driven To Drive Joe Ely
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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 two-lane 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.
Tracklist
1. Drivin' Man
2. Odds of the Blues
3. For Your Love
4. Watchin' Them Semis Roll
5. Didn't We Robbie
6. Nashville Is A Catfish
7. Ride Motorcycle
8. San Antonio Brawl
9. Slave to the the Western Wind
10. Gulf Coast Blues
11. Driven to Drive
12. Jackhammer Rock
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