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Biography
Infobox musical artist|image = Butch hancock 2011.jpg|caption = Butch Hancock performing at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.|name = Butch Hancock|background = solo_singer|birth_date = birth date and age|1945|7|12|origin = Lubbock, Texas|Lubbock , Texas |instrument =|genre = Country music|Country , Folk music|Folk |occupation = Musician|years_active = 1972–present|label =|associated_acts = The Flatlanders Joe Ely Jimmie Dale Gilmore |website = Butch Hancock is a country music|country / folk music recording artist and song writer. He was born July 12, 1945 in Lubbock, Texas . Hancock is a member of The Flatlanders along with Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore , but he has principally performed a solo career.
Background and career
Quotebox|Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love. & nbsp; & nbsp;-- Butch Hancockcite web | url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore/the-lies-of-texas-are-upo_b_277749.html | title = The Lies of Texas Are Upon You | accessdate = 2010-10-17 | last = Moore | first = James | date = 2009-09-04 | work = Huffington Post | publisher = 2010 HuffingtonPost.com, Inc |align=left|width=33% Hancock entered architecture school but dropped out in 1968 and worked for nearly a year driving a tractor on his father's farm in Lubbock, Texas. He recalls that the experience of elemental simplicity and reading books opened up the metaphysical universe for him.Brad Buchholz: http://web.archive.org/web/20030417003729/ http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/1928/buchholz The Image Maker Singer-songwriter Butch Hancock puts some of his visions on films The Dallas Morning News Sunday, May 29, 1994. In 1972, he formed The Flatlanders together with his old high school friends. Although critics were positive, the enterprise was not successful and they disbanded the following year. Hancock continued to write songs and in 1978 he founded a recording company, Rainlight Records and released his first solo album, West Texas Waltzes and Dust-Blown Tractor Tunes. He continued to bring out albums with folk tunes, first with only guitar and harmonica and subsequently with expanded use of instruments and arrangements. From the late 1990s he has reappeared with the Flatlanders, with whom he was to release a series of albums in 2004.
Hancock lived in Austin , a place congenial to his progressive country style, for a couple of decades until he moved to the ghosttown region of Terlingua , Texas in the '90s, preferring more rural environs.
Music
Butch Hancock has been called "one of the finest songwriters of our time"Steve Pick: http://www.webcitation.org/query? url= http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/1928/pick2.html& date=2009-10-25+09:19:09 Butch Hancock Bests Them All With Exquisite Lyrics, Melodies St. Louis Post-Dispatch November 27, 1994. and is acknowledged by his peers as one of the premier Texas singer-songwriters. His lyrics are ingenious, excelling in metaphor and irony and displaying a world-weary trait, just as he is a master of seeing the miracle in the ordinary. His lyric style has often been comparedCitation needed|date=March 2009 with that of Bob Dylan, and his songs have been sung by the likes of Emmylou Harris .Emmylou, Harris: Bluebird , track 10. Reprise, 1989.
In addition to the more traditional sounds Butch Hancock infused eclecticism|eclectic styles in his earlier recordings with artists Alex Coke , Austin Klezmorim|Austin Klezmorim's Bill Averbach , Spyder Johnson , John Hagan, the Squeezetones|Squeezetones' Ponty Bone , and pianist Marcia Ball .Citation needed|date=March 2009 For his fans his tunes evoke mystical visions of wind-swept, dry-plains and prairies.
Hancock has deliberately avoided satisfying the cravings of the markets, preferring to see his music as an end in itself, recording and releasing much of his music on his own and spending his energies on other things than a musical career.Don McLeese: http://www.webcitation.org/query? url= http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/1928/mcleese3.html& date=2009-10-25+09:19:04 From blank to beautiful // Hancock wants to paint city's artistic pride on empty walls Austin American-Statesman Thursday, January 28, 1993. He is a talented photographer, with a gallery named "Lubbock or Leave it" in the 1980s and 1990s, and currently (Fall 2009) showing his photographs and drawings at Bluebird Gallery in Wimberley, Texas. http://www.bluebirdgallery.blogspot.com/
Interviews with Butch Hancock, Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore along with many others of the so-called Lubbock Mafia appear in the film: Lubbock Lights http://www.lubbock-lights.com which was released in 2005.
Trivia: The album titles "Own & Own" and "Own the way over here" are making use of a play on words, 'own' being a Texan dialectical pronunciation of the word 'on'.
Discography
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West Texas Waltzes And Dust-Blown Tractor Tunes (1978)
Persondata | NAME =Hancock, Butch | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =July 12, 1945 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Hancock, Butch Category:1945 births Category:Living people Category:American country musicians Category:American country singers Category:People from Texas
