News:

• Recent Flatlanders-related releases:
  • March 6, 2007: Joe Ely's "Silver City"
  • February 9, 2007: Joe Ely's book "Bonfire Of Roadmaps".
  • February 6, 2007: Joe Ely's "Happy Songs From Rattlesnake Gulch".
  • October 17, 2006: Butch Hancock's "War And Peace".
  • August 16, 2005: Jimmie Dale Gilmore's "Come On Back". iTunes has a bonus track not on the CD: "Still Miss Someone (Studio Demo Version)".
  • October 12, 2004: The Flatlanders perform "Long Time Gone" on the "Stay All Night: Buddy Holly's Country Roots".
  • June 29, 2004: Flatlanders release - "Live At The One Knite: June 8, 1972".
  • February 24, 2004: Jimmie Dale Gilmore compilation cd "Don't Look for a Heartache", 15 tracks including the previously unreleased "Ramblin' Man".
  • January 27, 2004: Flatlanders record "Wheels Of Fortune".
• Original Flatlander Sylvester Rice, string bass on the "One Road More" recordings, passed away on October 21, 2003 at his home in Lubbock. He was 73 years old.
  At least one tribute to Sylvester says that he took the band to Nashville for the "One Road More" sessions.
  Lloyd Maines has stated in an interview that he met the Flatlanders through Sylvester.
• Billboard.com reported that The Flatlanders were confirmed contributors to the Alejandro Escovedo tribute album "Por Vida", (on Or Music), but they do not appear on it.
• Old recordings known to exist, but not scheduled for release yet:
  • fourteen studio tracks recorded in Odessa prior to the Nashville recordings - mentioned on Joe's website, Jimmie's site mentioned a possible title for the release of "Then Again"
  • Live - 1974 - The One Knite, Austin, TX - mentioned on Joe's website
• As of November 20, 2002, SoundScan reported 79,000 sales of "Now Again". (For perspective, as of the same date the Dixie Chicks had sold 2,400,000 copies of "Home".)

Other Tidbits:

• Lubbock Or Leave It, Butch's old gallery in Austin which Barbara Roseman took over, has closed. Do not send mail orders there any longer. Instead, write to: Rainlight Records, Box 468, Terlingua, TX 79852
• The Flatlanders played the very first Kerrville Folk Festival in 1972.
• Sometimes called the "Hill Country Flatlanders" after all of them had left Lubbock for Austin and Hill Country.
• In recent concerts, Terry Allen is sometimes called the "fourth Flatlander".
• Joe is often credited as "Little Johnny Fader" when behind the mixing board. On the original release of Butch's "West Texas Waltzes", Joe's production credit is given as "Earl Epiphone"
• The photo and artwork credits on Butch's early albums is usually listed as "Spinozza", which appears to really be Butch.
• Butch's father, George Hancock, published a book in 1985 about growing up in West Texas - "Go-Devils, Flies and Blackeyed Peas".

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Last updated: 27 February 2007
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