FLATLANDERS Dallas ELY HANCOCK GILMORE Plantation 7" 45

	£		46
	$		61

FLATLANDERS - DALLAS This is where it all started for the Flatlanders. The original promo release of Dallas that should have been the start of something great had it had the right promotion with the money to back it. Some things are just not meant to be i guess. Well, you've had my 8-track tape, now it's time for the 45. Although the karmic credit has evened out over the years, Gilmore's first band was originally called Jimmie Dale and the  Flatlanders. Formed in 1970 when pickin' pals Gilmore, Ely, and Hancock found themselves living together quasicommunally in Lubbock after drifting far and wide, the Flatlanders were a group ahead of their time but stuck firmly behind the c&w  eightball. Hippie country bands had begun sprouting like mushrooms on cow shit when this exquisitely eccentric group  casually came together. But with the assistance of Western swing fiddle veteran Tommy Hancock (no relation to Butch)  and saw bender Steve Wesson, this smelt like the real McCoy. Real enough so that the group found itself recording an utterly  original debut album in 1972 for veteran Nashvillepreneur Shelby Singleton. I thought they were absolutely great, recalls Singleton, who'd purchased Sun Records from Sam Phillips in 1969. "Their music  was strange. Different. Unusual. With the musical saw and Gilmore's vocal style, I thought it stood a chance of being a hit-- but I couldn't get any radio station to play it." Singleton released Gilmore's "Dallas" (containing the unforgettable line,  "Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eye") as a promo single, and One Road More as an eight-track cassette. Not  surprisingly, they barely made a ripple. "In those years," Singleton explains patiently, "we didn't release albums unless we  could get radio play for 'em." The rest was cult history until Rounder rereleased it in 1990 under the apt title, More a Legend  Than a Band . And the Flatlanders? According to Butch Hancock, bad management drove them asunder quickly but amenably.  Joe was the first to say 'this sucks' and take off. Hearing the group today, however, during one of its rare reunions, is bliss  that transcends nostalgia. Taken from virtuallubbock.com A Side ~~~ Dallas (Stereo) B Side ~~~ Dallas (Mono) Lable ~~~ Plantation Cat # ~~~ PL-92 Sleeve ~~~ Generic white Vinyl ~~~ NM Country ~~~ US All 45's will be posted out using proper mailers with stiffeners.  Records with pic sleeves will be taken out of jackets before posting.                                                       Shipping for 1 or 2 discs                              For the UK :  £1.50                               For Europe : £2.50       Forthe Rest of the World : £3.00         2 discs for the UK : £1.50                   2 discs for Europe : £2.50 2 discs for Rest of the World : £3.75                               Please Note : I keep a Post Office "Proof Of Posting" dated receipt for all items           Once they enter the Postal System i have no further control of mailed items.           Please ask if you would like your items to be sent signed for registered.                                                         Items containing 3 discs or more will be calculated at ACTUAL weight and charged accordingly.           All shipping for multiple wins will be charged at actual weight.                             I have been buying on eBay now for many years and have over a thousand positive feedbacks. There is a reason why i have opened  a new account with eBay to sell rather than use my existing account. I have in the last year or so returned to my Christian belief.  I want to follow what is scriptual in disposing of what, quite honestly, has been a bit of a millstone around my neck. One day i  looked around at all the many thousand items that filled two rooms and came to a dawning realisation that i had no idea what  90% of all this stuff was. I mean, i could go and buy something, play it once, log it, and that was the last i ever saw of it. So, this has  handed me a golden opportunity to turn around this situation into something positive. I usually find something to say about what  i am selling along with a track listing for albums. I hope that my passion and love for these items shines through occasionally  amongst my rambling. So why would i want to just give them away. Simple, my love for Jesus as my redeemer is even greater.  Matthew chapter 19 verses 16-21 gives my explanation for giving the lot to the Haiti Hospital Appeal. So keep watching as there  are loads of serious stuff to come (Unreleased Gram Parsons acetate, a couple of hundred Westwood one type radio shows,  unreleased Townes Van Zandt acetate and hundreds more of similar ilk).