The Best Of Joe ElyAmazon. com He's never had a Top 10 single, none of his albums have gone platinum, and yet Joe Ely has carved a unique and influential niche for himself during nearly 25 years as a solo performer, most of them spent on MCA. His incomparable stories overflow with humanity and humor, not to mention an idiosyncratic West Texas perspective. He was "alt country" before the genre existed and can be justly credited as a fountainhead of that movement. This