Butch Hancock Reviewed

"...Butch Hancock..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

You Coulda Walked Around the World

The LBJ of Lone Star songwriters lays siege to the Cactus Cafe

"...In 1997, the year Butch Hancock released his first of only two solo albums..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

God's Own Clothesline

In Search of Far Flung Adventures With Butch Hancock

"...photograph by Christopher Hess..."

May 15, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

The Devil in Us All

Butch Hancock, like Leo Tolstoy and Bob Dylan, takes on this political world

"...Butch Hancock lets out a laugh at the 2-inch thick,..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Courtney Barnett, Kid Cudi, Butch Hancock, Marisa Nadler, Robert Earl Keen, and more

"...interpolating an American fantasy of youthful ennui. – Alejandra Ramirez Butch Hancock04 Center, Saturday 27..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Music Column by Alejandra Ramirez

Hard Listening

Reviewing Butch Hancock's winter tour of Texas.

"...Butch Hancock’s winter tour of Texas equaled exactly two concerts..."

Jan. 18, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Roadside Playboys and Texana Dames

The Hancock Family's long, strange, supernatural musical journey

"...Who could resist this invitation to dance? Not Tommy Hancock...."

Dec. 31, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Flatlanders’ Centennial

Whole Hogg with the Lubbock trio’s “Borderless Love”

"...mantra on new millennial restart Now Again. Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore were flesh again, but..."

June 27, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Right Where They Belong

Raoul Hernandez goes on tour with the Flatlanders

"...Jimmie Dale Gilmore, center, and Butch Hancock, stage right, step forward into amplification, and with..."

July 26, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Reissues

"...BUTCH HANCOCK..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature

ACL Fest Interviews

"...Butch HancockFriday 5:15pm, Austin Ventures stage Lubbock-born Butch Hancock is..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Conflicts and Contradictions

The Choices of Terry Allen

"...the Lubbock expatriates; unlike Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock et al., he didn't join the mass musician..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

The Road Is Long

Michael Ventura's many winding turns

"...photographs by one of Ventura's oldest running buddies, singer-songwriter Butch Hancock (including the one pictured here, of Ventura gassing..."

April 22, 2011 Books Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Son of the Circus

Twistin' in the Wind

"...an acoustic guitar, paired with fellow Flatlanders Gilmore and Butch Hancock, or more likely, as leader of one of..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Letters @ 3AM

These Lubbock friends of mine were always writing books – thick notebooks of drawings and words

"...screen with its most famous residents – Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore. We thought we were pretty..."

March 16, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Texas in the Title

"...Sinclair (lyrics) Year Released: 1903 First sung at Austin's Hancock Opera House on May 12, 1903, at a minstrel..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature by Greg Beets

More a Man Than a Legend

Observing as the golden-throated Flatlander becomes a record-label executive

"...of dogs roam the halls, and surprise, some of Butch Hancock's photography is on display. Though the primary subject..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Letters at 3AM: Jesus Walking the Panhandle

The Christian cross is a question mark

"...Butch Hancock and I were the encampment's long-term residents. Others..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

The Flatlanders' collective voice of experience still dares the odds and rings true.

"...a sign announcing the boundary of Beverly Hills -- Butch Hancock peered into a vending machine to take a..."

July 26, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Texas Platters

Live shot

"...Butch Hancock..."

July 21, 2006 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The Flatlanders Create a Defining Album During Their Pandemic Pause

West Texas trio unearths a Treasure of Love

"...Butch Hancock is running a few minutes late on Zoom,..."

July 9, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Spotlight: The Flatlanders

Still cut-ups after all these years

"...one evening back in January, neither Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, nor their host sounded the least bit encumbered..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

A Life of Destinations

"...not anymore. But 25 years ago, when I met Butch Hancock, I weighed about 125 pounds, really skinny.) It..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Jimmy LaFave Songwriter Rendezvous

"...Butch Hancock..."

May 19, 2017 Photo Gallery

30 Rock

Thirty recordings for 30 years of music Chronicling

"...fiery roots fare including Jimmie Dale Gilmore's "Dallas" and Butch Hancock's "Road Hawg." Even the Clash had to ask..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

A Sound Salvation

Austin's Class of 2000

"...new Gilmore compositions, plus his take on songs by Butch Hancock, Walter Hyatt, John Hiatt, Townes Van Zandt, and..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Off the Road and Hungry

Where Austin Musicians Eat When They Get Home

"...Butch Hancock..."

March 20, 1998 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Off the Record

Asylum Street Spankers' last laugh

"...Like interstate mile markers, Butch Hancock's black-and-white photography accompanies If I Was a Highway,..."

April 22, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Live Shots

"...Face" (about the day that Blaze Foley died), and Butch Hancock's dream wherein Townes Van Zandt gets to heaven..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Music Feature

Live Shots

"..."Anybody seen Butch Hancock?" asks singer James Maestro mid-set, eyes shining wryly..."

July 14, 1995 Music Feature

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