If you recognize Butch Hancock’s name, you probably know him as a member of the Flatlanders, the legendary trio from Lubbock that is now a cornerstone of Texas country music. What you may not know is ...

Butch Hancock is one of the guides profiled in “Meet the Texperts! The State’s Best Tour Guides Want to Show You Around.” Much like his neighbors in his remote home of Terlingua, Hancock is not much ...

It's not inaccurate to call the Flatlanders an accident of a band. After all, no one could plan the sort of career path band members Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock have traveled. Who, ...

Hayden Pedigo’s isn’t the only voice from the echoing expanse of the Texas Panhandle that’ll be heard at the Big Ears Festival this March. Pedigo’s Amarillo angst is probably impossible without the ...

Troubadour Butch Hancock hails from the Lubbock, Texas, music scene that also gave the world Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, his equally eclectic colleagues in the Flatlanders. His music suggests a ...

Joe Ely, a native of West Texas, absorbed the honky-tonk, western swing and rock ‘n’ roll of his youth. He ran away from home at age sixteen to see the world and play music. He later returned to ...

Lubbock, Texas, schoolmates Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock dissolved The Flatlanders some 15-plus years before most people ever heard their early recordings, which Rounder re-released ...

Fri. July 6 | Texas troubadour Butch Hancock is a raspy voiced singer/songwriter best known for his early album West Texas Waltzes and Dustblown Tractor Tunes. He's also a part-time member of the ...