Showing posts with label Ray Wylie Hubbard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ray Wylie Hubbard. Show all posts
Jul 28, 2020
Jul 23, 2020
Country Walk Up Songs 2020
MLB is back! As we did in past years, FTM ponders what songs country singers
should use as their perfect "walk up" music if they were baseball players.
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Lady A
Electric Six - Clusterf*ck
Koe Wetzel
Andrew WK - Party Till You Puke
Elizabeth Cook
Ski Mask the Slump God - Illuminati
Scott Borchetta
Judas Priest - Tyrant
Shooter Jennings
blackbear & Tiny Meat Gang - Short Kings Anthem
Chase Rice
Steel Panther - F*ck Everybody
FGL
McDonough Band - Everybody Hates Us
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Iron Maiden - Stranger in a Strange Land
(RE: the Big Machine signing)
Jason Isbell
The Thought - 30 Feral Hogs
Jul 16, 2020
How I Met Your Mother Country Reaction Gifs
Me, halfway through a Lady A song
"Hey, you wanna go to this Chase Rice drive-in concert with me?"
When Patrice says she loves country too, like Dustin Lynch and Kane Brown.
Ray Wylie Hubbard?
After I listen to the new Lori McKenna album next week
When you speak to each other in Tyler Childers lyrics
♫ ♬ I'd take her home and if her parents weren't around
She'd bring me in and give me some
Bring me in and give me some ♫ ♬
When you can tell he's a Dan + Shay fan
Jul 13, 2020
Jul 10, 2020
Album Review / Ray Wylie Hubbard / Co-Starring
It’s either a hilarious coincidence or an intentional and profound irony that the first line of this album is: “Don’t get any on you if you go to Nashville.” Certainly that is the concern when our favorite independent artists sign to a mainstream label; we’re all happy they got the recognition they deserved, but we’re hoping Nashville won’t change what made them cool artists in the first place. As bizarre as 2020 has been, it seems almost natural that this year brought about the wildly unusual development that Ray Wylie Hubbard would release an album on Big Machine. The seventy-three-year-old artist has long been deserving of more of an audience, but the alliance between Hubbard and the label that produced Thomas Rhett and Florida Georgia Line was one none of us saw coming. It’s not the first time Scott Borchetta has signed an unexpected artist, but this is no doubt the farthest into left field he has yet ventured, and the coolest thing about this partnership is that it has culminated in Co-Starring, a Ray Wylie album that is better and more infused with life than his recent records.
There’s an energy in these songs and in Hubbard himself that wasn’t as present on his last couple of albums. The hooks and melodies are more infectious, the material is generally more lighthearted, and the parade of cool artists who contributed to the album all did their part to enhance these tracks. Perhaps most importantly, Ray Wylie is clearly having a blast with every line and guitar lick, and that vibrancy shines through and brings the album the life so often lacking on Americana albums these days. All of these factors serve to give these songs lots of replay value, and ultimately, that mileage is what matters most; it matters little how deep and profound a song is on first listen if you’re not compelled to listen to that song months and years later.
There is no crown jewel of the album; rather, Co-Starring has three. “Rock Gods,” featuring Aaron Lee Tasjan, certainly hits the hardest of the three, as Hubbard sings with sorrow about Route 91, Tom Petty’s death, and the brokenness and sadness permeating every corner of our world today. The opener, “Bad Trick,” featuring Ringo Starr, Don Was, Joe Walsh, and Chris Robinson, with its many great observations and little pieces of advice like the line about Nashville, remains the most infectious track on the album. “Drink Till I See Double,” featuring Paula Nelson and Elizabeth Cook, claims the honor of having the most brilliant hook, with “I’m gonna drink till I see double, and take one of you home.” This one is also easily the most stone cold country, for all you strict traditionalists out there.
It’s exciting to see Ray Wylie Hubbard getting his just due and to see such a rootsy album being released and promoted by a label like Big Machine. But the greatest aspect of it all is that Ray Wylie Hubbard didn’t get any on him when he went to Nashville, and hopefully, this record will see him enjoying even more of the recognition and success he has always deserved.
Jun 11, 2020
Bill & Ted Country Reaction Gifs
A big party during the pandemic where they're playing FGL?
Stop it.
A big party during the pandemic where they're playing Cody Jinks?
Luke Bryan's "One Margarita" is his biggest hit in years...
When you meet a fellow Tyler Childers fan
Mainstream country is "fixing racism" by adding a rapper to every remix?
When the local crackhead looks just like Ray Wylie Hubbard
Every country artist who doesn't actually want to address the specific problems going on in our nation be like:
When you pretended to like Kane Brown to ask a girl out but she still turned you down...
"No way, Sam Hunt is not a pop singer"
May 28, 2020
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