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There is nothing at all gentle about Joe Ely's music. Hard, strong and direct, with heavy rockabilly underpinnings, it can raise more blisters than a long week's farm work.
The best country album of 1980 never came out in the U.S., and the best country album so far in 1981 isn't getting played on the radio and hasn't sold enough copies to keep Glen Campbell in rhinestones. The fellow responsible for both records isn'...
So the kind of country sound Joe Ely has set down on five fine albums -the newest, Musta Notta Gotta Lotta, was released in February-bears little resemblance to the chart-topping fodder of Kenny Rogers or the cuddlesome crooning of Eddie Rabbitt. Anyone who considers that those old boys...
"My music," Ely states proudly, "is a strong, aggressive attack," and at a time when outlaws like Willie Nelson have mellowed into genteel grandees, Ely is an unreconstructed rowdy. He works the kind of honky-tonk where the patrons would tear the designer label off an urban cowboy's...
Joe Ely's bare-knuckled and open-hearted approach to country music has consequently created a fair amount of confusion. His manager has compared him with Bruce Springsteen, presumably to get rockers to pay a little heed, and his record company just acts stymied. Ely puts up an almost...