Butch Hancock : Rolling Stone

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Eats Away The Night

Often described as Dylanesque, the raspy-voiced Butch Hancock is at heart a West Texas mystic with an equal affinity for romantic border balladry and Zen paradox. Though his songs have frequently been recorded by Lubbock, Texas, homeboys Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore and occasionally by the likes...

1995 RS: 4of 5 Stars

1993

Biography

In Texas, where the song is king, Butch Hancock is both poet and jester, bringing a wry literary sensibil-ity rooted in traditional folk and country. With Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, he's one of the found-ing members of the Flatlanders -- alternative-country godfathers who bonded in the late '60s over wide-ranging interests in Eastern philosophy, Beat literature, and Mad magazine as much as...

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