genre the flatlanders
Jimmie Dale Gilmore ( born May 6 , 1945 ) is an American ___MASK38___ singer , songwriter , actor , recording artist and producer , currently living in Austin , Texas . Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County , Texas , United States . The city is located in the northwestern part of the state , a region known historically and geographically as the Llano Estacado and ecologically is part of the southern end of the High Plains . According to a 2015 Census estimate , Lubbock had a population of 249 , 042 , making it the 83rd most populous city in the ___MASK22___ and the 11th most populous city in the state of Texas . The city is the economic center of the Lubbock metropolitan area , which had an estimated 2015 population of 311 , 154 . Texas is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population . Geographically located in the south central part of the ___MASK38___ , Texas shares borders with the U . S . states of Louisiana to the east , Arkansas to the northeast , Oklahoma to the north , New Mexico to the west , and the Mexican states of Chihuahua , Coahuila , Nuevo León , and Tamaulipas to the southwest , while the Gulf of Mexico is to the southeast . Folk ___MASK41___ includes both traditional ___MASK41___ and the ___MASK3___ that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival . The term originated in the 19th century but is often applied to ___MASK41___ that is older than that . Some types of folk ___MASK41___ are also called world ___MASK41___ . " Traditional folk ___MASK41___ " has been defined in several ways : as ___MASK41___ transmitted orally , ___MASK41___ with unknown composers , or ___MASK41___ performed by custom over a long period of time . It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles . Joe Ely ( born February 9 , 1947 , Amarillo , Texas , United States ) is an American singer , songwriter and guitarist whose ___MASK41___ touches on honky - tonk , Texas country , Tex - Mex and rock and roll . Butch Hancock ( born July 12 , 1945 in Lubbock , Texas ), is a ___MASK38___ / folk ___MASK41___ recording artist and songwriter . Hancock is a member of The Flatlanders along with Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore , but he has principally performed solo . The Flatlanders are an American ___MASK38___ band from Lubbock , Texas , United States , founded in 1972 by Jimmie Dale Gilmore , Joe Ely and Butch Hancock . The group garnered little success during their brief original incarnation from 1972 to 1973 , but when the individual members found success in their solo careers , interest in The Flatlanders was rekindled with the band reuniting several times since . A honky - tonk ( also called honkatonk , honkey - tonk , or tonk ) is a bar that provides ___MASK75___ for the entertainment of its patrons . The term also refers to styles of music played in such establishments . Bars of this kind are common in the South and Southwest United States . Many eminent ___MASK75___ artists , such as Jimmie Rodgers , Loretta Lynn , Patsy Cline , Ernest Tubb , and Merle Haggard , began their careers as amateur musicians in honky - tonks . The modern - day , honk - tonk atmosphere has continued , with likes of Dwight Yoakam , to name a few . ___MASK43___ ( often written as rock & roll or rock ' n ' roll ) is a ___MASK3___ of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s , from African - American musical styles such as gospel , jazz , boogie woogie , and rhythm and blues , with country . While elements of rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s , the ___MASK3___ did not acquire its name until the 1950s . A county seat is an administrative center , seat of ___MASK17___ , or capital city of a county or civil parish . The term is used in the United States , Canada , Romania , China and Taiwan . In the United Kingdom and Ireland , county towns have a similar function .