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--This is a Region 1 DVD--
features interviews with The Flatlanders, Terry Allen, Tommy X Hancock, David Byrne and many others. also contains 34 songs from West Texas artists. won audience favorite at Park City Film Music Festival.
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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..."
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Track Listing
1. I Had My Hopes Up High
2. Mardi Gras Waltz
3. She Never Spoke Spanish to Me
4. Gambler's Bride
5. Suckin' a Big Bottle of Gin
6. Tennessee's Not the State I'm In
7. If You Were a Bluebird
8. Treat Me Like a Saturday Night
9. All My Love Listen
10. Johnny's Blues
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Track Listing
1. Drivin' to the Poorhouse In a Limousine 5:04
2. Don't Put a Lock On My Heart 4:31
3. Me and Billy the Kid 3:45
4. Letter to L.A. 11:26
5. Lord of the Highway 3:21
6. Cool Rockin' Loretta 7:31
7. Musta Notta Gotta Lotta 3:50
8. Fingernails 7:38
9. My Baby Thinks She's French 4:15
10. Oh Boy!
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1. Up on the Ridge 5:06
2. Slow You Down 4:29
3. Because of the Wind 4:38
4. All Just to Get to You 4:09
5. Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde 5:09
6. Letter to Laredo 5:29
7. Where Is My Love? 4:57
8. Ranches and Rivers 4:02
9. All That You Need 4:30
10. Wind's Gonna Blow You Away 4:23
11. Maybe She'll Find Me 4:35
12. I'm a Thousand Miles From Home 5:35
13. White Freightliner Blues 5:56
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Track Listing
1. Silver City 4:08
2. Santa Rosa/St. Augustine 4:00
3. Indian Cowboy 3:13
4. Wounded Knee 4:28
5. Cloister Mountain 3:27
6. Time for Travelin' 3:32
7. I Know Will Never Be Mine 4:13
8. Drivin' 'Cross Russia 4:18
9. Windy Windy Windy 1:56
10. Billy Boy 7:27
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1. Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes 3:36
2. Sue Me Sue 3:14
3. Hard Luck Saint 5:33
4. Jesse Justice 4:26
5. Miss Bonnie and Mister Clyde 4:51
6. Little Blossom 3:39
7. Firewater 4:10
8. July Blues 5:49
9. Up a Tree 4:24
10. So You Wanna Be Rich? 3:38
11. River Fever 5:58
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Track Listing
1. Settle For Love
2. For Your Love
3. My Eyes Got Lucky
4. Maybe She'll Find Me
5. Drivin' Man
6. Dig All Night
7. Grandfather Blues
8. Jazz Street
9. Rich Man, Poor Boy
10. Behind The Bamboo Shade
11. I Didn't Even Do It
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Track Listing
1. Lord of the Highway
2. Rich Man, Poor Boy
3. Row of Dominoes
4. Are You Listenin', Lucky?
5. Me and Billy The Kid
6. Letter to L.A.
7. Dig All Night
8. Settle For Love
9. Maybe She'll Find Me
10. Silver City
11. White Line Fever
12. Love and Danger(duet with Rosie Flores)
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1. Lord of the Highway
2. (Don't Put A) Lock On My Heart
3. Me and Billy The Kid
4. Letter to L.A.
5. No Rope, Daisy-O
6. My Baby Thinks She's French
7. Everybody Got Hammered
8. Are You Listenin', Lucky?
9. Row of Dominoes
10. Silver City
11. Screaming Blue Jillions
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1. She Never Spoke Spanish To Me
2. Suckin' A Big Bottle Of Gin
3. Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown
4. Honky Tonk Masquerade
5. Fingernails
6. Fools Fall In Love
7. Dallas
8. Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
9. Settle For Love
10. The Road Goes On Forever
11. Me And Billy The Kid
12. All Just To Get To You
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1. Fightin' For My Life
2. I'm on the Run Again
3. A Flood on Our Hands
4. All That You Need
5. Run Little Pony
6. Streets of Sin
7. 95 South
8. Carnival Bum
9. Twisty River Bridge
10. That's Why I Love You Like I Do
11. Wind's Gonna Blow You Away
12. I Gotta Find Ol' Joe
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Track Listing
1. She Never Spoke Spanish To Me 3:34
2. Suckin' A Big Bottle Of Gin 3:15
3. Tennessee's Not The State I'm In 3:03
4. Boxcars 4:02
5. Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown 2:12
6. Honky Tonk Masquerade 3:45
7. West Texas Waltz 5:01
8. Fools Fall In Love 4:11
9. Standin' At The Big Hotel 4:09
10. Musta Notta Gotta Lotta 2:35
11. Dallas 3:29
12. Fingernails 2:54
13. Long Snake Moan 5:13
14. Cool Rockin' Loretta 3:23
15. Settle For Love 4:25
16. Me And Billy The Kid 3:23
17. If You Were A Bluebird 4:12
18. Letter To Laredo 4:40
19. Roll Again 5:01
20. All Just To Get To You 4:16
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Track Listing
1. The Road Goes On Forever 5:03
2. All Just to Get to You 4:09
3. Gallo del Cielo 7:04
4. Ranches and Rivers 4:11
5. Workin' for the Man 4:56
6. Me and Billy the Kid 4:11
7. Up on the Ridge 5:33
8. Rock Salt and Nails 4:57
9. Nacho Mama 3:42
10. Dallas 4:09
11. Thousand Miles from Home 6:25
12. Road Hawg 5:09
13. Everybody Got Hammered 4:17
14. My Eyes Got Lucky 5:11
15. Oh Boy! 4:22
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Track Listing
1. Sleepless In Love
2. Pins and Needles
3. Love Is The Beating of Hearts
4. Slow You Down
5. The Road Goes On Forever
6. Settle For Love
7. Highways and Heartaches
8. Whenever Kindness Fails
9. She Collected
10. Every Night About This Time
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Track Listing
1. All Just To Get To You
2. Gallo Del Cielo
3. Run Preciosa
4. Saint Valentine
5. Ranches and Rivers
6. Letter to Laredo
7. I Saw It In You
8. She Finally Spoke Spanish To Me
9. I Ain't Been Here Long
10. That Ain't Enough
11. I'm A Thousand Miles From Home
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Track Listing
1. Me and Billy the Kid
2. Are You Listenin' Lucky?
3. Grandfather Blues
4. B.B.Q. & Foam
5. Row of Dominoes
6. Dallas
7. Where Is My Love?
8. She Gotta Get the Gettin'
9. Drivin' to the Poorhouse in a Limousine
10. Cool Rockin' Loretta
11. Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
12. Letter to L.A.
13. If You Were a Bluebird
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Track Listing
1. Cornbread Moon
2. Because of the Wind
3. Boxcars
4. Jericho (Your Walls Must Come Tumbling Down)
5. Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown
6. Honky Tonk Masquerade
7. I'll Be Your Fool
8. Fingernails
9. West Texas Waltz
10. Honky Tonkin'
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