B4 84

Description

Joe ely has always been a maverick, a texas-born artist who never worried much about the boundaries between country music and rock and roll. However, even ely's open-minded audience was seriously confused by his 1984 album hi-res, in which he livened up his sound with synthesizers and electronic percussion, something that didn't mesh with his image as a champion of traditional texas music. As it happened, ely was inspired to make hi-res after he'd been given an apple iie computer not long after they went on the market, and became fascinated with the possibilities of the machine's music production software. Ely's experiments with the apple iie led to him cutting a set of demos that became a dry run for hi-res, and b4 84 gives those demos a public hearing for the first time.