The Flatlanders bring three Texas legends to Knuckleheads tonight

Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock are all at Knuckleheads tonight, playing together as the Flatlanders. Here’s Rick Mason’s take on the Flatlanders’ legend:

When the Flatlanders’ long-neglected first album was reissued in the early 1990s, it was called More a Legend Than a Band. Busy with solo careers, Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock weren’t together again until asked to write a song for The Horse Whisperer soundtrack. They subsequently returned with their first full album in 30 years, 2002’s Now Again. The band is in prime form on Hills and Valleys, which finds the three honing that wiry, wind-whipped, West Texas mix of country, folk, roots rock and Tex-Mex.