Ray
Wylie Hubbard's early classic "Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother"
was an impromptu rallying cry for the cosmic cowboys, but he'd
kind of like to forget those years -- if only he could remember
them.
Certainly many had forgotten Ray Wylie Hubbard before he
turned up clean and sober in the '90s with the best songs of his
career. On both Loco Gringo's Lament and the subsequent
Lost Train of Thought Ray Wylie Hubbard combined his own
turbulent life experience with a flair for poetic storytelling;
these songs became Americana classics the minute they dropped out
of Hubbard's brain.
Still, they couldn't have prepared anyone for Ray's next
album, Dangerous Spirits, one of the best albums of 1997.
More soulful than Townes Van Zandt, even darker than Robert Earl
Keen, but clearly indebted to both, it is a mind-bending journey
into a world that can only be described as supernatural. It's
clear that Ray Wylie Hubbard still has plenty to say.
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