Here's a super oldie but a goodie. This is Ray Wylie Hubbard's first album from 1975. Very hard to find, and very out of print. Notice the early version of Portales on here. This is pretty different from his newer sleazy greasy beautiful blues type stuff, but not THAT much different...you can still tell it Ray Wylie. Fans of Jerry Jeff Walker and Guy Clark will definitely want to check this one out
Here's some new Ray Wylie. Not the greatest recording in the world, but listenable. What's nice is the couple of new songs he throws in. And man the cover I made makes me huuuungry. Anybody else out there a fan of carolina style BBQ. If your not familiar with carolina style BBQ, it's smoked dry, pulled, put on a bun, then you douse it yourself with your favorite vinegar sauce....which consists of tomato-y vinegar or vinegar-y vinegar (Lexington sauce....with spices). Top it off with some slaw on top.....it's the only way to eat a BBQ sammich I tells ya.
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Sorry for the lack of posts folks. To make up for it, here is a killer show from Ray Wylie Hubbard. Download it, you'll thank me later. This is a great show because the audience has.....really good taste in music :p (listen to it, and you'll get that). Also a killer version of "wanna rock and roll" (more intense than any other version I've heard), and he finishes it off with one of the best versions of "The messenger" I have ever heard as well. Gurf is here too backing him up and playing some killer licks.I'm almost speechless here, we have recieved a high profile visitor to our humble little site on the interweb. None other than Mother Hubbard, that's right, Ray Wylie Hubbard's wife...known colloquially as Mother Hubbard. She threw down her polecat, kicked the banjo back under the bed, turned off Reservoir Dogs and made a nice little visit to this here blog.....at least that's how I'm gonna imagine it :)
Here is the comment she left for us with the Ray Wylie Hubbard Sampler post:
blackwidow00 said...
Thanks for the kind words...I will pass them on to the Wylie Llama. Just want to remind everyone if you like the stuff and want to order CD's please do so off the artists websites. We never see the money from the record label when you order off the other sites...amazon, etc. This way we can buy milk for the baby, guitars for the poet and for mom...pay the pool guy:)Love,PeaceMother Hubbard
Mother Hubbard, tell Ray Wylie I've been turnin' people left and right onto his music in VA and he has a small contingency of hardcore fans in these here mountains. Tell him can't wait for his new album to come out either.....has he thought about doing a DVD, would love to see something like that.
Thanks for pointing out that we should be ordering music off the artists websites. I wasn't aware that was the best way to do it. Lord knows in these days of wild west music distribution, I want as much of my money going to a deserving artist as possible.
I have went and changed all the links I had made to amazon to now point to the artist's direct store, and will do so with all future links. Thanks for the info, and thanks for leaving a comment....you really made my day.
OK, this one was really hard to whittle down to 80 minutes. But I think what I came up with is a good overview of an artist I can only describe as a lyrical genius. Ray Wylie Hubbard is my latest musical obsession, download this sampler to find out why. Nasty grooves, gruff vocals, killer slide guitar, and some of the best damn lyrics you're likely to ever hear. Now on this disc I had to leave out his most famous song (made famous by Jerry Jeff Walker in the 70's) "Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother" but you can find a killer version of it on the Stingaree bootleg I previously posted. I also did not put a song off his first album after his reinvention as, what I like to describe as "a mystic troubador", 1992's "Lost Train of Thought". Though It has some good songs on it, the flow was better without them. 
I've made no secret of my love for Ray Wylie Hubbard, I will get to that in more detail in my RWH sampler post. But first here is a killer bootleg from the Stingaree Music Festival, or as Ray calls it "Hayesapalooza". This was the first stingaree festival, the brainchild of Hayes Carll (I love that guy too) to showcase some of his friends and favorite artists and held in his "base camp" town of Crystal Beach, Texas. And man what a lineup they had....I would have loved to have gone: Todd Snider, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Hayes Carll, Corb Lund, The Dedringers....man talk about a killer line up. This is the first of what I hope is many bootlegs from this festival.
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