Joe Ely and Joel Guzman at Knucklehead’s, 08/30/08

Joe Ely and Joel Guzman

Better Than: Actually having to be in that shithole Texas

By ALAN SCHERSTUHL

That should read “Joe Ely, Joel Guzman, and the railroad conductors of America.”

Guzman played accordion and sang ragged back-up. Ely, the weathered, eccentric West Texas singer/songwriter, strummed and sang, in a hard, clear tenor, a well-picked sampling of the honest rock-country he’s been knocking out for over 35 years now.

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