Streets Of Sin

Joe Ely's new CD

Not that you would know it from the man's woefully neglected website....

But apparently Joe Ely has finished work on a new CD.

Streets of Sin will be released on July 15. From the clips on Amazon, it sounds like he's gotten a bit away from the awesome Letter To Laredo Tex-Mex border sound and back more towards the Love and Danger sound. To the extent you can tell anything from a few short clips from a few songs.

This is excellent news. Joe Ely is one of the legendary alt-country/roots rock guys, but lately there's been way too much Flatlanders stuff and not enough Joe.

Not that the Flatlanders aren't good, but Joe is a friggin' rocker and hanging out with those guys singing folk/country tunes kind of puts Joe in slow motion.

So here's hoping he ditches the old farts and gets out with a badass band to support this album in a few weeks.

[Posted at 20:27 CST on 06/24/03] [Link]