Description
• The complete, known recordings from Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, and Butch Hancock • Available on CD and 3-sided LP with laser etched 4th side. • Liner notes from acclaimed author and multiple-Grammy winner Colin Escott Reflecting on The Flatlanders in 1990, Jimmy Dale Gilmore said, “The band probably has a higher reputation now than it ever did.
Every time Butch Hancock and Joe Ely and I go out on the road, people want to know about The Flatlanders. We always say it was more a legend than a band.” And against all odds, the legend has grown. –Colin Escott You know how it is when you can’t stop talking up a record. Someone will say, “Okay, but who do they sound like?” Or, “Let’s go see them.”
Flatlanders fandom hits a wall right there. By the time the first compilation of Flatlanders work appeared in England in 1980, they'd been apart for seven years, and another ten before their music was available in the US. Sort of… Recorded in 1972 and scheduled for release the following year, All American Music was put on hold and went unissued, save for a few copies that were released on 8-Track. It took a 1980 UK compilation to collect all of the known Flatlanders material, with a now out-of-print German collection unearthing one more. Now, Omnivore Recordings brings all known Flatlanders
tracks back to CD and on a three sided LP with the musical saw etched on side four. (Did we mention the musical saw yet?...). All American Music features 18 tracks, newly remastered by multiple Grammy-winner Michael Graves, with packaging featuring liner notes from author and Grammy-winner Colin Escott, helmed by Grammy-winner Cheryl
Pawelski. As Escott says in his notes – More than a half-century later, The Flatlander original music still sounds fresh.
It was truly a sound like no other. It's a stretch to call an artist prophetic if no one heard them, but in some ways The Flatlanders foretold the grab-all that became Americana Music.
Tracklist
1. Dallas
2. The Heart You Left Behind
3. She Had Everything
4. Tonight I’m Gonna Go Downtown
5. Waiting For A Train
6. Rose From The Mountain
7. You’ve Never Seen Me Cry
8. Jole Blon
9. Bhagavan Decreed
10. Keeper Of
The Mountain
11. Hello Stranger
12. Down In My Hometown (Bonus Track)
13. One Day At A Time (Bonus Track)
14. Stars In My Life (Bonus Track)
15. Not So Long Ago (Bonus Track)
16. I Know You (Bonus Track)
17. One Road More (Bonus Track)
18. Dallas (Alternate) [Bonus Track]
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