Features
AUK Back Pages No. 21
We hit the summer of 2011 raring to go as we look forward to AUK’s 10th anniversary celebrations, scheduled to light up the socialist republic of Liverpool in November. Aside from running the site our editor […]
Joe Ely
Features
The Song Remains: Joe Ely (1947 – 2025)
A Great Texas Artist Who Nearly Conquered The World Joe Ely, an icon of Texas music and country rock, has died at home in Taos, New Mexico, on December 15th from complications of Lewy Body Dementia, Parkinson’s, […]
News
Joe and Sharon Ely fight dementia to produce music with the help of AI
Singer-songwriter Joe Ely, known for his legendary contributions to American music, has recently been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia and Parkinson’s disease. Together with his wife, Sharon, Joe is sharing their journey—not to dwell in hardship, […]
Essentials
Essentials: The Top 10 Joe Ely Songs
I owe quite a bit to Joe Ely. His 1980 album “Live Shots”, a blistering document of his London shows opening for The Clash that year, was my introduction to the Texas music scene. There were […]
Album Reviews
Joe Ely “Love and Freedom”
A healing album for a time of social turmoil. On his twenty-ninth studio album, Joe Ely is revisiting and recording some stories from the past, all in the hopes of finding “Love and Freedom”. At a […]