Artist: Ray Wylie Hubbard
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #64 July-Aug 2006
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Snake Farm
The further down and dirty Ray Wylie Hubbard takes his music, the higher he raises the artistic ante. Dismissed more than a quarter-century ago as a cosmic-cowboy curiosity, an alcoholic casualty of a bygone era, Hubbard has somehow been reaching new creative peaks with almost each new release of original material. If Bob Dylan ever [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #56 March-April 2005
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Delirium Tremoloes
Being a folkie ain’t easy. You demand the attention of your audience so you can play songs you may or may not have written, and in exchange, if you perform them honestly enough, you leave listeners with the impression they’re yours regardless. That’s the pleasure and the mystery of Delirium Tremoloes, the umpteenth album by [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Outlaw blues
They say there’s two kinds of people in the world: The day people and the night people And it’s the night people’s job to get the day people’s money. – “Nighttime” “Hey, hippie, why don’t you get a job?” Ray Wylie Hubbard paused in the crosswalk and peered out from under a tousled mare’s-nest of [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #34 July-Aug 2001
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Eternal And Lowdown
Easily Ray Wylie Hubbard’s most musically satisfying recording, Eternal And Lowdown is a blues album — but for Hubbard the blues works the way bluegrass does for Steve Earle, more guiding spirit than constriction. Propelled by Hubbard’s weathered but passionate voice, wicked slide work, and a spicy instrumental stew — producer Gurf Morlix’s swampy electric [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #23 Sept-Oct 1999
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Crusades Of The Restless Knights
Working in relative obscurity, ’70s Texas songwriting great Ray Wylie Hubbard has resurfaced in the ’90s through a series of fine solo albums, beginning with 1992′s Lost Train Of Thought and continuing through 1994′s Loco Gringo’s Lament and 1997′s Dangerous Spirits. Now comes Crusades Of The Restless Knights, Hubbard’s best CD to date. Accompanied by [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #21 May-June 1999
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Live At The Cibolo Creek Country Club
Twenty or so years after dooming himself to forever being known as the guy who wrote “Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother”, Ray Wylie Hubbard delivered one of the best records of 1997, the stunning Dangerous Spirits. Now comes this live CD, a willfully shaggy, casual affair that seems about equally divided between Hubbard singing [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #11 Sept-Oct 1997
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Put down the gun
Two years ago, “The Messenger” appeared at the end of a tape a friend made for me, sounding with a shock of recognition, knocking me out of some cross-state driving daydream and into a world that was fierce, visionary, and crystalline. I’m wearing old boots, black Cuban heels Our soles they are worn and we [...]
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