Joe Ely, the singer-songwriter who helped drive a new wave of Texas-based music that united rock and country fans in the ...

A country music singer/songwriter who took his sound into the world of pop and rock has died. Joe Ely was 78 years old. His family announced his death, saying that he died from pneumonia but had been ...

Joe Ely, the West Texas troubadour who also played a pivotal role in turning Austin into a live music capital, died Monday. He was 78. Ely died at his home in Taos, N.M, from complications of Lewy ...

TAOS, New Mexico -- Joe Ely, a singer and songwriter from the vast flatness of West Texas whose mastery of the South's varied musical traditions and paeans to the open road earned him the nickname ...