The Flatlanders May 17, 2009

special guests: Bukka Allen
Sunday May 17 | 8pm | 21+

Few people heard the recording "Jimmie Dale and the Flatlanders" when it was originally released in 1973, partly because it was available only on eight-track tape. Since then the three singer-songwriter/guitarists in the band – Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock – have achieved varying degrees of fame through solo albums.

In the meantime the subsequent reissues of "Jimmie Dale and the Flatlanders" – on vinyl in the '80s as "One More Road" and on CD in the '90s as "More a Legend Than a Band" – have made it a classic of thinking-person's cosmic country. The music ranks, at least on my list, as one of the 50 best albums of the 20th century.

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