Joe Ely delivers his classic Texas sound on his new single ‘Driven to Drive’. This is the title track for his new album dus 2nd August from Rack ‘Em Records/Thirty Tigers. Famed for his raw country songs and his friendship with Joe Strummer (That’s Ely singing in Spanish on ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go’), this is his twenty-fourth (!) album. “All my life I’ve been driven to drive, searching for the next thing I might find,” Ely said about the new single. “I chase songs and I catch one of them every once in a while. I first began working on this song around 1986, and finally finished it this year for the album ‘Driven to Drive’.”
Ely self-produced the new collection at his Spur Studios facility near Austin Texas. It features songs that were written about life on the road over the course of his multi-decade career.
Ed Donnelly is a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and record producer from Los Angeles. He has worked with Willie Nelson, Crowded House, Marc Cohn, Jools Holland, Matchbox Twenty, The Cult, BoyHaunt, Gladys Knight, Trent Summar and The West Coast Mob, Smashing Pumpkins, Del McCoury, OK Go, Exodus, Molly Leach, Tom Morello, O.A.R., Madness, The Crystal Method, DrunkHungry, Deadmau5, Zac Brown, CrysP Tyger, Bighead Todd and the Monsters, Jake Shimabukuro, Barenaked Ladies, Tsar, Killola and more. Donnelly regularly performs with Nathan Jacques as well as Little Silver Hearts and records with GhostsDream. Little known fact: He previously held Top Secret Security Clearance with the U.S. Department of State and Q Clearance from the Department of Energy.
He currently runs The Barber’s Basement Recording Studio in Highland Park and is a partner in The Atmos at Lemontree Studio.
