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Joe Ely

Features

The Eccentrics

By PopMatters Staff

You need not be popular to break the rules, and you need not be popular to break your own conventions. Sometimes the very best music is being crafted right on the fringes of the mainstream, and it is for that reason that sometimes you will find some of rock music's greatest DETOURS. [1 August 2008]

The Best Singer-Songwriter Albums of 2007

By Michael Keefe

What unites these artists is an individual presence -- a voice -- that is powerful enough to carry an entire album without retreating to the cozy confines of a band. [13 December 2007]

Reviews

Joe Ely: Happy Songs from Rattlesnake Gulch

By Michael Keefe

Finely crafted, confident, and energized, Rattlesnake Gulch is another great album in singer-songwriter Joe Ely's canon. [1 March 2007]

Joe Ely: Streets of Sin

By Andrew Gilstrap

Blogs

Notes from the Road: Joe Ely and Joel Guzman - 5 July 2008: Berwyn, IL, Fitzgeralds

Pictures by Sarah Zupko / Words by Karen Zarker. [8 July 2008]

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