Joe Ely, Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore — together known as the Flatlanders — are not only bandmates, but friends, who have known each other for more than five decades. They share various ...

The Flatlanders -- Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock -- add a bit of Texas twang to a 50-plus-year-old Bob Dylan song with their cover of "She Belongs to Me." The brand-new recording is ...

Backup plans are for sissies. "I never had a backup plan," Joe Ely confessed in a call from Kansas City, Mo., where he and his Flatlanders bandmates Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock played a gig ...

Over the years, the Flatlanders—Lubbock’s Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock—have earned a reputation as Americana music’s first supergroup, leading the way with a rootsy mix of country ...

The one and only Texas troubadour supergroup made an impressive statement in front of an enthusiastic Troubadour crowd. Touring to support "Now Again" (New West), the Lubbock-bred team of Joe Ely, ...

In the early 1970s, a group of Lubbock musicians recorded an album under the name The Flatlanders. But the record was never released, and they parted ways. When the core members, Jimmie Dale Gilmore ...

Three Flatlanders and a Hillbilly: (counter-clockwise from top left) Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, and Chronicle interlocutor Doug Freeman chat it up over Zoom Credit: Screenshot by ...

Fifty years after he started making music with Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Joe Ely in Lubbock, Texas, Butch Hancock is ruminating on how the three childhood friends assembled “Treasure of Love,” the ...

The Flatlanders unveiled new songs such as the fun-loving “I Thought the Wreck Was Over” and a tune that found a protagonist reporting back on what happened to him on Judgment Day.