
Whether or not you subscribe to the adage that the devil always has the best music, you can take it on faith that anytime he pops up from a cameo in a Ray Wylie Hubbard song, the results are gonna be pretty damned entertaining. Shrink-wrapped. Somewhere or another on just about every ray wylie hubbard album, the devil gets his due and he's now even worked his way up to the top billing on his acclaimed songwriter's latest, Tell the Devil I'm Gettin' There as Fast as I Can.
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Snake Farm

The Ruffian's Misfortune

When it comes to down 'n' dirty roots 'n' roll, nobody in the wide world of Americana music today does it better than Ray Wylie Hubbard. From his humble beginnings as an oklahoma folkie in the '60s to his wild ride through the '70s progressive country movement, and onward through the honky-tonk fog of the '80s to his sobriety-empowered comeback as a song-writer's songwriter in the '90s, Hubbard was already a bonafide legend by the time he really found his groove right at the turn of the century.
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The Grifter's Hymnal

The album really does have a lot of attitude, Hubbard proclaims. The opening track of the grifter s hymnal, Coricidin Bottle, tells you everything you need to know about Ray Wylie Hubbard in just under two minutes.
Delirium Tremolos

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Dangerous Spirits

So You Wannabe An Outlaw

Guitar town earle’s 1986 chart-topping, grammy Award-winning debut album wound up being kind of my version of those types of songs, ” Earle recalls. Earle is backed on so you wannabe an outlaw by his long-time band The Dukes — guitarist Chris Masterson, fiddle player Eleanor Whitmore, bassist Kelly Looney, and new members drummer Brad Pemberton and pedal steel player Ricky Ray Jackson.
I moved to nashville in november of 1974, and right after that Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger came out. This record was all about me playing’ on the back pick-up of a ’66 Fender Telecaster on an entire record for the first time in my life. I’m just acknowledging where I’m coming from. So you wannabe an outlaw is the first recording he has made in Austin, TX.
I certainly don’t sound like Waylon Jennings. Look, i’m always gonna be a Texan, no matter what I do, ” he says. The vocal part of it is a little different.
Growl

Not Dark Yet

Shelby and allison wrap their arms around the past, plant their feet in the present, and nod toward what's around the bend with a co-written Is It Too Much to close out the ten-song set. Shrink-wrapped. Shrink-wrapped.
Downey to Lubbock

Shrink-wrapped. Just the two of them were swapping songs and cutting up, each with a guitar and a heart full of soul, musicians who ve been on the road their entire adult lives. Shrink-wrapped. The result is an album of blues, rock and folk inspired tunes that both of their fans will enjoy. Shrink-wrapped. Shrink-wrapped.
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A: Enlightenment B: Endarkenment

Shrink-wrapped. With a keen eye for observation and a wise man's knowledge, Ray Wylie Hubbard composes and performs a dozen songs that couldn't spring from anywhere else but out of his fertile Rock 'n' Roll bluesy poet-in-the-blistering-heat southern noggin. A weekly radio show, constant touring, and producing kept him busy, but didn't manage to steal the Texan singer/songwriter's focus.
Shrink-wrapped. The outcome of the album is a juxtaposition of songs like 'Four Horseman Of The Apocalypse, and 'Drunken Poet's Dream, p a fundamental Gospel piece, ' a co-write with Hayes Carll. Enlightenment B. Shrink-wrapped.