March 14, 2012 - Bruce Springsteen closed out the 30th annual Austin Music Awards at this year's South by Southwest Music Conference by joining local legend Alejandro Escovedo for a handful of songs.
April 18, 2007 - Following an April tour of Europe,, Americana singer/songwriter Joe Ely will be back in the states for gigs of his own as well as with The Flatlanders, his band with fellow Texas luminaries Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock.
September 13, 2006 - Lyle Lovett has booked another round of shows with Guy Clark, Joe Ely and John Hiatt, a stretch of dates for the alt-country supergroup that stretches well into 2007.
January 12, 2006 - Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, Joe Ely and Guy Clark will again team up during a stretch of February dates that follow a round of headlining shows for the Lyle Lovett Acoustic Trio.
October 27, 2005 - As they've done several times in the past, singer/songwriters Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, Joe Ely and Guy Clark will hit the road next month for a round of co-headlining tour dates.
September 26, 2004 - Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt have wrapped up their respective summer tours and will join fellow singer-songwriters Joe Ely and Guy Clark for a joint run through October.
March 25, 2003 - Lyle Lovett teams with fellow singer-songwriters John Hiatt, Guy Clark and Joe Ely for a spring tour of North America, and follows the outing with a series of outdoor summer gigs with his Large Band.
February 16, 2000 - When Texas country singer/songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore releases his excellent "One Endless Night" at the end of Feb., it's not the down-home tokers of Americana who will need to be converted. It's the Nashville world of big-label, formulaic country and its legions of ratings-fed radio stations who will have to be gently led--if they will listen.
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