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July 12, 2002

Flatlanders Score Heavy Rotation

Thanks to $10,000, L.A. New Country station plays a bit of the traditional stuff

Recordings and Reviews

Wheels Of Fortune

Just one year after their stunning three-decades-in-the-making comeback album, Now Again, the Lubbock, Texas, supergroup -- Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock -- is still riding high. Wheels of Fortune isn't quite as cohesive as Now, but the group's trad-country is crisp and decorous....

2004 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

Now Again

2002

More A Legend Than A Band

1980

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Biography

More a Legend Than a Band, recorded in Nashville in 1971, was a masterpiece of the "high and lonesome" Texas country style created by an outlaw C&W supergroup -- Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock -- a musical family of great depth and resolute individuality. The album's acoustic approach (guitars, Dobro, mandolin, fiddle, and string bass) and the loping rhythms of this short-lived...

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