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Ray Wylie Hubbard (born November 13, 1946) is an American singer and songwriter.
- Lake Ray Hubbard
Lake Ray Hubbard, formerly Eastern Dallas Lake or Forney...
- Lake Ray Hubbard
Lake Ray Hubbard, formerly Eastern Dallas Lake or Forney Lake, is a freshwater impoundment located in Dallas, Texas in the counties of Dallas, Kaufman, Collin, and Rockwall, just north of the City of Forney. [1]
Long considered a “songwriter’s songwriter,” Ray Wylie Hubbard taps into the Southern music tradition of balancing the sacred and profane. In the three decades since he hit rock bottom, his music, career, and perspective have been reborn.
Ray Wylie Hubbard. Hubbard was born in the town of Soper, Oklahoma. His family moved to Oak Cliff in southwest Dallas, Texas, in 1954. He attended W. H. Adamson High School with Michael Martin.
- "Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother"
- "Lucifer and The Fallen Angels"
- "Night Time"
- "Count My Blessings"
- "Screw You, We're from Texas"
- "Cooler-N-Hell"
- "Name Droppin'"
- "Chick Singer, Badass Rockin'"
- "Mother Hubbard's Blues"
- "Down by The River"
While Hubbard is still slightly embarrassed about writing "Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother," he really created the modern "laundry list storyteller" song when he wrote it. Throughout his career, he'd recreate the magic of "Redneck Mother" in various forms —"Screw You, We're From Texas," "Cooler-N-Hell," "Chick Singer, Badass Rockin'"— while Hubb...
One of Hubbard's greatest gifts as a songwriter is his ability to take a well-known fable and twist it until it becomes fresh and new. "Lucifer and the Fallen Angels" is like a cousin to Robert Johnson's "Crossroads" tale or The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy For the Devil." He's not exactly selling his soul to the devil for some talent, but rather, giv...
"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," sings Hubbard on "Night Time." He'd reuse the line again in "Rabbit," but in essence, the differences between the day people and the night people is what all of Hubbard's material is about. That stark contr...
Hubbard's long lived by the adage "never second guess inspiration." He's gotten more than his fair share of songs that way. Hubbard says he was on Purgatory Road between New Braunfels and Wimberly when he saw a crow on a fence post. From there, he weaves three drastically different stories — learning to play Three Card Monte, a Lightnin' Hopkins in...
Often pretexted with "The problem irony is the problem with irony is that not everybody gets it," "Screw You, We're From Texas" sometimes still goes over people's heads. While it's undoubtedly tongue-in-cheek and brash, Hubbard still delivers a well-crafted anthem. The guitars are greasy and howl as Hubbard goes through all of Texas' best attribute...
Other songwriters may like cool stuff just as much as Hubbard, but none write about them quite as effortlessly and cool as Hubbard. It may seem off-hand, but each and every Hubbard name drop means something. Add them all up, Lightnin' Hopkins, a '55 Telecaster, a '68 candy apple red Camaro and a honky-tonkin' woman, you'll swear Hubbard just saw Ho...
While Hubbard often dives into subjects that demand reflection, he isn't above writing songs that focus on simplicity. "Name Droppin'" works off this idea. It's all about the groove and rhythm. The slide guitar and fiddle are just as vital to "Name Droppin'" as Hubbard's actual name dropping and character sketches.
I don't want to harp on it toomuch, but no one lists off cool things in a song quite as effortlessly or as charmingly cool as Ray Wylie Hubbard. "Chick Singer, Badass Rockin'" has Hubbard rocking a little harder than usual. There's a Black Angels psychedelic tinge to it (which he referenced in "South of the River" a record before). He's refined his...
If you're a songwriter or musician, you may as well be jotting down notes while listening to Hubbard. His songs are chalk full of free musical advice. He may be singing about his wife, Judy, on "Mother Hubbard's Blues," but lines about good tone, vapor rub and paying your dues are as good as gold. Still, the best — "The mother asks some tough quest...
"Down by the River" was co-written by Hubbard with Nino Cooper and Marco Gutierrez of The Dirty River Boys. Cooper and Gutierrez were inspired by the bold violence found in their hometown of El Paso, and its' Mexican counterpart, Juarez. While the violence has almost become routine, Hubbard and company vividly capture the stark and harsh realities ...
Aug 22, 2017 · Texas music icon Ray Wylie Hubbard addresses mortality, good and evil on new album 'Tell the Devil I'm Getting There as Fast as I Can.'
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Ray Wylie Hubbard. The Dallas-raised songwriter first made a name for himself by penning “Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother,” which Jerry Jeff Walker recorded in 1973 on Viva Terlingua.
