Topspin: Veteran West Texas tunesmith Joe Ely celebrates his 60th birthday this month with the release of "Happy Songs From Rattlesnake Gulch" (Rack 'Em, 2007), as well as a new book, "Bonfire of Roadmaps" (University at Texas Press), a collection of his poetic road journals.
At heart, Ely's a storyteller with an acute attention to detail, in whichever media he chooses to express himself. The songs on this potent disc are all newly recorded (although some of them were written as long ago as the mid-'80s), and they range from hard driving rockers ("Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes," inspired by the Hurricane Katrina disaster) to the tender "Little Blossom." Best of the …
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