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Bonfire of Roadmaps / Joe Ely.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music SeriesPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (196 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292794856
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 782.421642092 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 52 CITIES TILL CHRISTMAS -- IRON RHINOS -- BONFIRE OF ROADMAPS -- ONE FUSE OF A SUMMER -- LORD OF THE HIGHWAY -- GULF WAR ONE -- JIM BEAM -- LAREDO EAST AND WEST -- ON THE RUN AGAIN -- AFTERWORD
Summary: Since he first hitched a ride out of Lubbock, Texas, at the age of sixteen, singer-songwriter and Flatlanders band member Joe Ely has been a road warrior, traveling highways and back roads across America and Europe, playing music for "2 hours of ecstasy" out of "22 hours of misery." To stay sane on the road, Ely keeps a journal, penning verses that sometimes morph into songs, and other times remain "snapshots of what was flying by, just out of reach, so to savor at a later date when the wheels stop rolling, and the gears quit grinding, and the engines shut down." In Bonfire of Roadmaps, Ely takes readers on the road with him. Using verse passages from his road journals and his own drawings, Ely authentically re-creates the experience of a musician's life on tour, from the hard goodbyes at home, to the long hours on the road, to the exhilaration of a great live show, to the exhaustion after weeks of touring. Ely's road trips begin as he rides the rails to Manhattan in 1972 and continue up through recent concert tours with fellow Flatlanders Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock. While acknowledging that "it is not the nature of a gypsy to look in the rearview mirror," Joe Ely nevertheless offers his many fans a revelatory look back over the roads he's traveled and the wisdom he's won from his experiences. And for "those who want to venture beyond the horizon just to see what is there. to those, I hope these accounts will give a glint of inspiration."
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 52 CITIES TILL CHRISTMAS -- IRON RHINOS -- BONFIRE OF ROADMAPS -- ONE FUSE OF A SUMMER -- LORD OF THE HIGHWAY -- GULF WAR ONE -- JIM BEAM -- LAREDO EAST AND WEST -- ON THE RUN AGAIN -- AFTERWORD

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Since he first hitched a ride out of Lubbock, Texas, at the age of sixteen, singer-songwriter and Flatlanders band member Joe Ely has been a road warrior, traveling highways and back roads across America and Europe, playing music for "2 hours of ecstasy" out of "22 hours of misery." To stay sane on the road, Ely keeps a journal, penning verses that sometimes morph into songs, and other times remain "snapshots of what was flying by, just out of reach, so to savor at a later date when the wheels stop rolling, and the gears quit grinding, and the engines shut down." In Bonfire of Roadmaps, Ely takes readers on the road with him. Using verse passages from his road journals and his own drawings, Ely authentically re-creates the experience of a musician's life on tour, from the hard goodbyes at home, to the long hours on the road, to the exhilaration of a great live show, to the exhaustion after weeks of touring. Ely's road trips begin as he rides the rails to Manhattan in 1972 and continue up through recent concert tours with fellow Flatlanders Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock. While acknowledging that "it is not the nature of a gypsy to look in the rearview mirror," Joe Ely nevertheless offers his many fans a revelatory look back over the roads he's traveled and the wisdom he's won from his experiences. And for "those who want to venture beyond the horizon just to see what is there. to those, I hope these accounts will give a glint of inspiration."

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)