Saturday, June 9, 2007

A Truer Sampler 03 - Ray Wylie Hubbard


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.
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Now I seriously love Ray Wylie Hubbard....I think he is the best artist out there performing and recording right now. I first heard of him a long time ago....with the aforementioned song "Redneck Mother". I kind of thought he just faded into obscurity during the 70's never to be heard from again. Fast forward to a couple of years ago, I hear the song "Choctaw Bingo" on a DBT station I created on Pandora.com. "Holy Shit, this song is amazing" I thought, so I did a little research and found out that he had in fact faded into obscurity & drug addiction during the 70's and 80's, only to clean himself up and be "musically reborn" in the early 90's. He took his first guitar lessons, and learned to play the blues like Lightnin' Hopkins....and man he can play it too. Then he started putting out killer album after killer album....I went out and bought them all (well I had to order most of them). Every album was fantastic, I especially like "Eternal and Lowdown". I would call that his masterpiece, it's just a perfect album from start to finish. And "Choctaw Bingo" though it's a James McMurtry song, is in my top 10 of greatest songs ever....it's a song I wish would never end....I just want to hear more and more, and when Ray Wylie sings it you believe every last word of it
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Posted by Truersound at 10:41 PM
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12 comments:

  1. Bob KJune 11, 2007 at 6:23 AM

    thanks for the ray.

    I've been looking for a nice overview of his stuff so that i can explore more.

    much appreciated

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  2. AnonymousJune 11, 2007 at 11:10 AM

    A musician I've heard talk of, and who's piqued my interest, but I've never known where to start with. And then I doscover your blog and this great posting! Thanks so much.

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  3. semplemanJune 11, 2007 at 4:26 PM

    Ditto the first two...looking forward to checking this out! Also appreciate the SCOTS stuff. Got any James McMurtry?

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  4. AnonymousJune 14, 2007 at 4:09 PM

    Hi True..Do you have album Growl of this amazing artist I only miss this in his whole catalog...Thanks
    Hiriam

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  5. TruersoundJune 14, 2007 at 9:18 PM

    Glad you guys like the ray wylie, I know I sure do.

    Sempleman: yes I have some McMurtry, not much though.

    Anonymous: yes I have growl, but I doubt I will post it, sorry

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  6. UnknownJune 15, 2007 at 12:47 AM

    great site man!
    i love rwh too, and paterson hood & his bunch, of course!
    thank you very much

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  7. Ray Wylie HubbardJune 15, 2007 at 1:34 AM

    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,Peace
    Mother Hubbard

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  8. strickiJune 21, 2007 at 5:14 AM

    Thanks for an excellent compilation! I was lucky enough to catch RWH playing a 30 min set at Threadgills in Austin about 9 or 10 years ago and I was blown away. But I must admit I haven't kept up to date with his catalogue - sounds like theres lots of great albums for me to catch up on. Cheers from New Zealand.

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  9. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2007 at 5:58 AM

    hello !
    thanx for the music, i like your samplers.
    but i can't download ats 03: the links seems not work.

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  10. finvarraSeptember 11, 2007 at 2:49 PM

    Is it possible to reup this? The link is corrupted. Thanks for all these great comps!!!!

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  11. AnonymousSeptember 10, 2008 at 2:37 AM

    Corrupted, hell...now it's dead. Can you re-up this one? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze...?

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  12. JAMES WOEMarch 23, 2009 at 5:35 PM

    i tell ya...this BLOG RULES!! thanks for this.

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