Subject: Joe Ely

• Playbill: Albert & Gage

  February 23, 2007

• Weekend Music: No Money, No Problem

  April 11, 2008

• Tonight: Joe Ely and Joel Guzman at Dosey Doe in The Woodlands

  August 14, 2008

• Election Eve With Fred

  November 4, 2008

• Press Picks

  April 28, 1994

• Ely, Allen and BBQ: The next best thing to Lubbock

  August 25, 1994

• Karp, the Good Crap

  November 24, 1994

• Aftermath: The Magpies and Sideshow Tramps at the Continental Club

  Photos by Chris Gray It didn't look good at the beginning. A few minutes after 9 p.m. Wednesday, the posted start time for visiting Cleveland roots-rockers the Magpies, the "count" at the Continental Club front door was all of 16 paying customers, and the band was nowhere in sight. Two chicken tacos at Tacos a Go-Go and one Lone Star at the Big Top later, things were much improved. The room was considerably fuller - and would go on to be one of the biggest Wednesday-night crowds Aftermath ha

  January 8, 2009

• Postmarked Texas

  August 31, 1995

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: A Tribute to Chris Gaffney

  Chris Gaffney Right on the heels of Wednesday's announcement of Vanguard's new Doug Sahm tribute album comes Yep Roc's tribute to Chris Gaffney, The Man of Somebody's Dreams. Ironically, it includes some of the same high-profile roots artists who pay tribute to Sahm: Dave Alvin, Los Lobos and Alejandro Escovedo. Gaffney was a Southern California barroom legend, the kind of player and man for whom the cliché "musician's musician" was coined.    Before he died of liver

  January 23, 2009

• Guit-in' Down

  December 28, 1995

• Bruce Springsteen Confirms Second Houston Show in a Year

  Alejandro Escovedo with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band,"Always a Friend," Toyota Center, April 14, 2008 After last year's sold-out show that ended with both Alejandro Escovedo and Joe Ely duetting with the Boss, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are headed back to Houston for their second show within a year April 8 at Toyota Center. See the Press' review of last April's show here. Springsteen's official Web site announced the tour, supporting

  January 27, 2009

• Leaving the Country

  August 29, 1996

• Press Picks

  December 5, 1996

• Press Picks

  April 24, 1997

• Press Picks

  December 25, 1997

• Dream So Real

  April 30, 1998

• Rotation

  May 28, 1998

• Night & Day

  November 12, 1998

• A Practical Angel

  December 17, 1998

• Tonight: Carrie Rodriguez and Jubal Lee Young at Conroe's Free First Thursday

  Carrie Rodriguez kicks of Conroe's free First Thursdays concert series tonight. After a long tenure as a duet with hall-of-fame-quality songwriter Chip Taylor, Rodriguez struck out on her own last year with She Ain't Me. The album is very much in a Patty Griffin vein, but the title track would do Loretta Lynn proud back in her "You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man" days - Rodriguez warns her man, ""Whoever Ms. Whoever is, she ain't me." Opening with new material from his soon-to-drop Last

  April 2, 2009

• Tonight: The Magpies at the Continental Club

  [A review from the Magpies' January Continental show is here.] Chris GrayMy son, a guitar plunker raised on huge doses of Rockpile and Joe Ely, tipped me to the Magpies. He saw them at Hayes Carll's Stingaree Festival about a year ago and pronounced them the hardest-rocking band of the whole soiree. Tooling over to MySpace, it only took a brief introduction to the band's work to convince me that he might be onto something. Not only does the band rock, it has smart lyrics and, with keybo

  April 14, 2009

• The Magpies

  January 1, 2009

• 2008 in Texas Albums and Local EPs

  January 1, 2009

• Noise's Handy Holiday Local-Music Gift Guide

  November 27, 2008

• Don't Fence Us In

  Aztex refuses to be ghettoized in the Tejano market

  October 25, 2001

• The Greatest Texas Rock Album of All Time

  October 9, 2008

• The Shredder

  One Show, One Sentence

  October 2, 2008

• This Just In: The Flatlanders Cancel Cactus In-Store Gig

  This morning word came from Cactus Music, via a quick MySpace bulletin, that the Flatlanders' in-store performance set for Saturday afternoon has been cancelled. No reason was given for the band backing out of the midday appearance. The roots-rock supergroup, made up of Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock, is currently touring in support of March's Hills and Valleys release. The trio's Creighton Theatre gig in Conroe set for Saturday night seems to still be on, as no word of its can

  June 4, 2009

• Joe Ely, Ryan Bingham

  March 6, 2008

• Joe Ely

  One of the original kings of alt-country is experiencing a renaissance

  December 27, 2007

• Patricia Vonne

  Firebird www.patriciavonne.com

  September 20, 2007

• Lise Liddell

  Lovers' Moon (Self-released)

  October 10, 2002

• The Small Stars

  Small Stars perform Friday, February 2, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main Street, 713-529-9899. Scott Biram also performs.

  February 1, 2007

• Unknown Legend

  Roots renegade Joe Ely never achieved pop stardom, but that's all right by him...sorta

  January 25, 2007

• Joe Ely and Double Trouble

  Joe Ely performs on Thursday, December 28, at Fitzgerald's, 2706 White Oak, 713-862-3838.

  December 28, 2006

• Todd Snider

  The Devil You Know

  September 7, 2006

• Joe Ely

  Friday, June 9, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2524 Norfolk, 713-528-5999

  June 8, 2006

• Two Hoots and a Holler, with Jesse Dayton and Guy Forsyth

  Friday, June 24, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899.

  June 23, 2005

• Jimmie Dale Gilmore

  Thursday, May 26, at Zilkha Hall in the Hobby Center, 800 Bagby, 713-313-2525.

  May 26, 2005

• David Holt

  Perpetual Motion (Blue Corn)

  November 18, 2004

• MOFRO

  June 24, 2004

• The Flatlanders

  Saturday, February 28

  February 26, 2004

• Rallying Round Al

  Houston pitches in to help an ailing Austinite; also: Dennis Kucinich hits the hip-hop hustings

  December 11, 2003

• Coal Miner's Brother

  Chris Knight extracts songs from the same ravaged west Kentucky earth he once rehabilitated

  September 18, 2003

• Racket

  The Last Concert Cafe has glimpses from its unique history

  July 19, 2001

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Another Record Store Day at Cactus Music

  Cactus Music and the Record Ranch is having another Record Store Day Saturday, with a lineup of events that borders on serious party happening. The highlight of the day will be a live appearance by red-hot San Antonio band The Krayolas (above). San Antonio's oldest and most respected rockero outfit has hit serious paydirt with their single "Corrido: Twelve Heads in a Bag," a tale based on the current wave of gruesome violence in Mexico. The song was first picked up by Little Steven Van Zandt on

  June 19, 2009

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: "Palo Duro"

  View Five States of Texas in a larger map As any proud Texan can tell you, the Lone Star State is entitled constitutionally to split into five states if it so wishes. The scenario has rarely been more in the news than it has relatively recently, when Gov. Rick Perry played to the wingnut gallery in an attempt to outflank primary opponent Kay Bailey Hutchison on the right discussed secession as a viable possibility. But Rocks Off doesn't care a whit about any of that political BS. We do care abou

  August 11, 2009

• Ghosts of Washington Avenue

  September 10, 2009

• Distant Early Warning: 30FootFall, Agnostic Front, Dropkick Murphys, George Thorogood, Joe Ely, Slayer, etc.

  ​30FootFall: Fri., Dec. 25. Fitzgerald's. Agnostic Front, Death By Stereo: Sun., Jan. 24. Walter's on Washington. American Sharks, The Watermarks: Wed., Nov. 25. Boondocks. Band of Heathens: Fri., Dec. 11. Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe. Basses Loaded, Springfield Riots, Nosaprise: Fri., Nov. 27, 8 p.m., $5. Mango's. Bill Maher: Sat., Jan. 30. Cullen Performance Hall. Bryan White: Tue., Jan. 12. Dosey Doe Coffee Company.

  November 17, 2009