His lyric style has often been compared with that of Bob Dylan, and his songs have been sung by the likes of Emmylou Harris. 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. 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 1990s, preferring more rural environs.īutch Hancock has been called "one of the finest songwriters of our time" and is acknowledged by his peers as one of the premier Texas singer-songwriters.
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From the late 1990s he has reappeared with the Flatlanders, with whom he was to release a series of albums in 2004. He continued to bring out albums with folk tunes, first with only guitar and harmonica and subsequently with expanded use of instruments and arrangements.
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. Although critics were positive, the enterprise was not successful and they disbanded the following year. In 1970, he formed The Flatlanders together with his old high school friends. He recalls that the experience of elemental simplicity and reading books opened up the metaphysical universe for him.
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. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on Earth and you should save it for someone you love. Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in Hell.
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