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This Lubbock-bred balladeer has often been compared to Bob Dylan but this comparison flatters Dylan.

Butch Hancock is as much of a satirist as he is prolific, having written hundreds of songs that deliver a morality tale in a way that both makes listeners laugh and scratch their heads at the same time. Although he regularly performs with fellow Flatlanders Joe Ely & Jimmie Dale Gilmore and has performed with many notable musicians around the world, this singer-songwriter holds his own as a soloist, accompanied by guitar and harmonica with lyrics that are unmistakenly Texan in origin but cosmic in scope. He is a member of the Buddy Holly Walk of Fame and the Texas Music Hall of Fame.

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