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Live Music: Folk

Sunday, November 15, 2009 7 pm

Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock formed The Flatlanders 37 years ago.Earlier recordings include the soundtrack to the 1998 film The Horse Whisperer, then for their “reunion” album, 2002’s Now Again. Their new CD was influenced by “the heavy-dutiness” of the last eight years—9/11, Katrina, Iraq, border walls going up while the economy careened downward—all were definitely on their minds as they wrote. After the Storm and Homeland Refugee form a trilogy of sorts with the Tex-Mex-flavored Borderless Love. Over the jaunty notes of honorary Flatlander Joel Guzman’s accordion, the song draws the conclusion: A wall is a mirror, it can only reveal one side of the story that passes for real. 37 years after they were prodded into recording together the first time, The Flatlanders are still collaborating—and still the best of friends. In his soft Texas drawl, Ely sums the philosophy behind their creativity: “We might as well write music and make songs up, because there’s not anything that we’d rather be doing.”

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