Live Shots is a live album

Live album

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 recorded in London

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 by American

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 country

Country music

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 outfit The Joe Ely

Joe Ely

Joe Ely is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music touches on honky-tonk, Texas Country, Tex-Mex and rock and roll....

 Band during a 1980 tour supporting The Clash

The Clash

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. The tour occurred at a high point in The Clash's popularity just after the release of the album, London Calling

London Calling

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.

The album was first only released in the UK

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, but a US

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 release soon followed due to high demand. The 1993 reissue CD

Compact Disc

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 included the tracks from the Texas Special bonus EP that had accompanied the Live Shots LP

LP album

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.

Track listing

All songs by Joe Ely, except as indicated.

Side One (of original LP):

1. "Fingernails" — 3:00
2. "Midnight Shift" (Jimmie Ainsworth, Earl Lee) — 3:00
3. "Honky Tonk Masquerade" — 3:49
4. "Honky Tonkin'" (Hank Williams) — 3:12
5. "Long Snake Moan" (arranged/adapted by Ely) — 5:10

Side Two:

1. "I Had My Hopes up High" — 3:13
2. "She Never Spoke Spanish to Me" (Butch Hancock
   Butch Hancock
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   ) — 3:53
3. "Johnny's Blues" — 4:48
4. "Fools Fall in Love" (Hancock) — 4:37
5. "Boxcars" (Hancock) — 4:37

Texas Special EP:

1. "Crazy Lemon" — 3:56
2. "Not Fade Away
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   " (Norman Petty
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   , Charles Hardin
   Buddy Holly
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   ) — 3:42
3. "Treat Me Like a Saturday Night" (Jimmie Dale Gilmore
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   ) — 3:09
4. "Wishin' for You" (Hancock) — 4:41

The Joe Ely Band

• Joe Ely
  Joe Ely
  Joe Ely is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music touches on honky-tonk, Texas Country, Tex-Mex and rock and roll....
  
   — electric guitar & vocals
• Ponty Bone
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   — accordion
• Robert Marquam — drums
• Jesse Taylor — electric lead guitar
• Gregg Wright (credited as "Greg Wright") — Bass
• Lloyd Maines
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   — pedal steel
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   and background vocals

Guest musicians

• Carlene Carter
  Carlene Carter
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   — vocals on "Honky Tonkin'"
• Mick Gallagher — keyboards
• Reese Wynans
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   — keyboards

Production

• Recorded live in London
  London
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  , a Free Flow Production in association with Joe Ely
• Produced by Michael Brovsky
• Engineered by Chet Himes, Remix-Pecan Street Studios, Austin, Texas
  Austin, Texas
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• Assistant Engineer — Greg Klinginsmith

Artwork

• Graphics & design — Guy Juke, Austin, Texas
• Artwork — Cream, Bayswater, London
• Snapshots — Pete Vernon
• Repackage design — Carmelo Roman
• Liner notes — Max Bell

Musicians

• Michael Robberson — bass guitar
• Michael Kindred — keyboards
• Smokey Joe Miller — saxophone,

Production

• Produced by Al Kooper
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• Recorded live in Texas
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   by Reelsound
• Engineered by Bob Edwards
• Remixed at Studio South, Austin, Texas
• "Not Fade Away" recording courtesy of WLIR
  WLIR
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   in New York
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Artwork

• Photography/design — Patti Heid/Art Ache
• Ely lettering — Guy Juke
• Art production — Dick Reeves and John Wilson, Austin, Texas

Charts

year	chart	peak
1981	Billboard Pop Albums Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	159

Releases

year	format	label	catalog #
1980	LP	MCA	5262
1980	LP	Southcoast/MCA	MCAD-10816
1993	CD	MCA	10816
1993	cassette Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...	MCA	10816

External links

• Discography at www.ely.com