Joe Ely was born between Route 66 and the Rock Island Line in Amarillo, Texas, and he saw Jerry Lee Lewis playing on a flatbed trailer in an Amarillo dust storm when he was six years old. Since then he's had a career than can fairly be called mythic. His songs about the geographic and romantic landscapes of the Lone Star State are pure poetry, but there's no other Texas songwriter on whom rock has left a stronger mark. Joe was a member of the original Flatlanders, a backup vocalist with the Clash, a member of Los Super Seven, one of many great American musicians who's a bit better appreciated in Europe than at home, and a true pioneer of Americana and progressive Texas music. A recent recipient of the Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award, Joe is touring with music from an upcoming release, "Satisfied at Last." In the words of Texas music writer Joe Nick Patoski, Joe Ely was born "to roam the earth and preach the gospel of the Roadhouse, extolling the virtues of the nowhere-else-but-Texas pressure cooker enviornment where hard-core country and the rawest kind of rock and roll collide on the dancefloor every Saturday night."