Joe Ely in Sellersville

The road goes on forever, and on Thursday night it stops in Sellersville. Under any circumstance, Joe Ely is a great, gripping live performer. But this time, there are two more good reasons to make your way through the back roads of Bucks County. One is that Satisfied at Last, the Lubbock, Texas-born Flatlander's new album, is his best in years, a rock-solid collection of originals that take stock after 40 plus years on the road without settling for sentimentality or giving up on romance.  Plus, it's juiced with a Tex-Mex take on Billy Joe Shaver's "Live Forever," and two superb new songs written by Ely's fellow Flatlander Butch Hancock. The album was recorded with four different guitar players, but the good news is the one that you really want to see - take no prisoners six-string slinger David Grissom, who played on Ely's 1990 Lord of the Highway - is the one who will be in tow, along with the rest of the band from that classic album. Show info here. "The Road Goes On Forever," below.

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