Joe Ely (album)

Joe Ely (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Joe Ely
Type = studio
Artist = Joe Ely


Released = 1977
Recorded = Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Genre = country
Length = 32:10
Label = MCA
Producer = Chip Young
with "special thanks to Don Caldwell"
Reviews =
* "Allmusic" Rating|4.5|5Brian Mansfield, "Review: "Joe Ely", "Allmusic" ( [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:t69ss36ba3zg~T0 link] )]
* Robert Christgau (A-)Robert Christgau, "Consumer Guide", ( [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=664&name=Joe+Ely link] )]
* "Dirty Linen" (favorable)"Linen Shorts" [short review of Joe Ely - "Joe Ely/Honky Tonk Masquerade" and New Riders of the Purple Sage - "Gypsy Cowboy/The Adventures of Panama Red"] , "Dirty Linen", 94, June-July 2001, p.79]
Last album =
This album = "Joe Ely"
(1977)
Next album = "Honky Tonk Masquerade"
(1978)

"Joe Ely" is the self-titled debut album by Joe Ely, released in 1977 on MCA Records. The album includes several tracks with "near-classic" status among Ely fans, including several written by Ely's bandmates from The Flatlanders. Although the The Flatlanders never actually broke-up, there would be several decades between their poorly distributed 1972 album and their next release.

"Joe Ely", together with his follow-up, "Honky Tonk Masquerade", established Ely as a solo artist. Although the reissued CD doesn't credit Ely's backing musicians, the original LP included a one-page insert containing lyrics and musician credits. The core of the backing band that Ely had assembled for his debut was the same Lubbock-based crack team that appeared with him the following year on "Honky Tonk Masquerade" and continued to follow him on the road until 1982.

Years later Ely would recall that the band had not initially made plans for a recording career:

"We had recorded some songs at [Don] Caldwell's studio," Ely said. "Don took that tape to Jerry Jeff Walker, and Jerry Jeff recorded one of the songs and played it for a guy with MCA Records. Then one night in 1975 at the Cotton Club, an A&R guy with MCA asked, 'Do y'all want to make some records?'"

"I told him we'd sure never planned on it. But we hadn't planned anything else either, so why not?"William Kerns, "After painful circus stint, Ely soared with new band", "Lubbock Avalanche-Journal", February 10, 2007 ( [http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/021007/ent_021007023.shtml link] )]

In the years that followed the release of "Joe Ely", the band would become an act of national stature.

LP track listing

All songs written by Joe Ely except as indicated.

ide one

# "I Had My Hopes Up High" — 3:32
# "Mardi Gras Waltz" — 2:50
# "She Never Spoke Spanish To Me" (Butch Hancock) — 3:34
# "Gambler's Bride" — 2:35
# "Suckin' A Big Bottle Of Gin" (Hancock) — 3:15

ide two

# "Tennessee's Not The State I'm In" (Hancock) — 3:04
# "If You Were A Bluebird" (Hancock) — 2:59
# "Treat Me Like A Saturday Night" (Jimmie Gilmore) — 3:02
# "All My Love" — 3:09
# "Johnny Blues" — 4:10

Credits

Credits are summarized from track-by-track credits listed in liner notes.Reporting of the liner notes for this article were from the MCA LP release, MC-2242]

Musicians

* Bass – Gregg Wright
* Drums – Steve Keeton
* Piano, electric piano, clavinet and organ – Bobby Emmons
* Electric guitars – Jesse Taylor, Rick Hulett, Joe Ely, Chip Young
* Acoustic guitars – Joe Ely, Chip Young, Lloyd Maines, Rick Hulett, Ray Edenton
* Gut & 12 String Guitar – Jesse Taylor
* F-Hole Guitar – Ray Edenton
* Steel guitar – Lloyd Maines
* Dobros – Jesse Taylor, Rick Hulett
* Slide dobro – Joe Ely on "Saturday Night"
* Harmonica – Joe Ely
* Percussion – Farrell Morris
* Horns – The Muscle Shoals Group
* Trumpet – Harrison Callaway
* Tenor Saxophone – Harvey Thompson
* Baritone Saxophone – Ron Eades
* Trombone – Charles Rose
* Vocal Harmonies – Joe Ely on "Johnny Blues"; Rick Hulett on "Mardi Gras Waltz", "She Never Spoke Spanish", "Tennessee" and "All My Love"

Production

* Recorded at Young 'Un Sound Studios, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
** Engineer – Chip Young
* Mastered at MCA Recording Studio, Universal City, California
** Mastering Engineer – Larry Boden

Artwork

* Cover illustration – Paul Milosevich
* Back cover photo (of Ely and band in cafe) – Jim Eppler

Releases

The album was digitally remastered and released on CD and cassette in 1991. [http://www.ely.com/Discography.html Joe Ely Discography] from the Official Homepage of Joe Ely] In 2000, a remastered edition of Ely's first two albums ("Joe Ely" and "Honky Tonk Masquerade") were released together on a single disk. "Dirty Linen" reported that this disk was especially worth seeking out since it was (at least at the time), "the only place on two continents you can get Ely's debut." The reviewer described Ely's first two albums together: "Ely's self-titled effort and "HTM" are a bit leaner than most of his other honky-tonk rockers, with a bit more piano than electric guitar backing his lonesome warble -- dry and forceful as the wind whistling through Waco."

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