Description
**THIS IS A VINYL LP**
Release Date: 2024
Label: Omnivore
Track List
Side A
- Dallas
- The Heart You Left Behind
- She Had Everything
- Tonight I’m Gonna Go Downtown
- Waiting for a Train
- Rose from the Mountain
- You’ve Never Seen Me Cry
Side B
- Jole Blon
- Bhagavan Decreed
- Keeper of the Mountain
- Hello Stranger
- Down in My Hometown (Bonus Track)
Side C
- One Day at a Time (Bonus Track)
- Stars in My Life (Bonus Track)
- Not So Long Ago (Bonus Track)
- I Know You (Bonus Track)
- One Road More (Bonus Track)
- Dallas (Alternate) [Bonus Track]
Notes
3-Sided Double LP with Laser Etched 4th Side!
All Known Recordings from Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely & Butch Walker’s Flatlanders 1973 Debut!
Reflecting on The Flatlanders in 1990, Jimmy Dale Gilmore said, “The band probably has a higher reputation now than it ever did. Every time Butch Hancock and Joe Ely and I go out on the road, people want to know about The Flatlanders. We always say it was more a legend than a band.”
And against all odds, the legend has grown.
–Colin Escott
You know how it is when you can’t stop talking up a record. Someone will say, “Okay, but who do they sound like?” Or, “Let’s go see them.” Flatlanders fandom hits a wall right there. By the time the first compilation of Flatlanders’ work appeared in England in 1980, they’d been apart for seven years, and another ten before their music was available in the US. Sort of…
Recorded in 1972 and scheduled for release the following year, All American Music was put on hold and went unissued, save for a few copies that were released on 8-Track. It took a 1980 UK compilation to collect all of the known Flatlanders material, with a now out-of-print German collection unearthing one more track in 2015.
Finally, in 2024, Omnivore Recordings brings all known Flatlanders tracks back on a three sided LP with the musical saw etched on side four. (Did we mention the musical saw yet?…). All American Music features 18 tracks, newly remastered by multiple Grammy-winner Michael Graves, with packaging featuring liner notes from author and Grammy-winner Colin Escott, helmed by Grammy-winner Cheryl Pawelski.
As Escott says in his notes – “More than a half-century later, The Flatlanders’ original music still sounds fresh. It was truly a sound like no other. It’s a stretch to call an artist ‘prophetic’ if no one heard them, but in some ways The Flatlanders foretold the grab-all that became Americana Music.”
Features
- Double LP
- All Known Recordings from Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely & Butch Hancock’s 1973 Flatlanders Debut Gathered for the First Time
- Remastered by Michael Graves
- 3 Sides of Music
- “Musical Saw” Laser Etched 4th Side
- Artwork Inspired by the Original 8-Track Release
- Liner Notes by Colin Escott
