Farce the Music: Ray Wylie Hubbard

Jan 18, 2018

The Office Country Reaction Gifs 2

Do you like Mitchell Tenpenny's song, "Bitches?"

Why don't you listen to Walker Hayes?

Reading Bobby Bones' Tweets

What's your reaction when I say....

Gary Levox

Me listening to somebody talk about

their love of Sam Hunt

in real life and trying not to go

all "that's not country" blogger on them

Why don't you listen to mainstream country radio?

If you still have truck nutz in 2018

♪ Up against the wall redneck mother ♪

Aug 18, 2017

Album Review: Ray Wylie Hubbard - Tell the Devil I'm Gettin' There As Fast As I Can

Ray Wylie Hubbard - Tell the Devil I'm Gettin' There As Fast As I Can

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Ray Wylie returns with another heavy dose of what he's damn good for. You know the deal: gritty Texas blues, God, the Devil, philosophy, the particulars of being a musician, and lots of stories. "God Looked Around" is a retelling of the Garden of Eden story through Hubbard's trademark filter of wit and candor. The lead single and title track is as close as you'll get to commercial-sounding in RWH's world - it brings together our fearless leader with Eric Church and Lucinda Williams providing support for this world-weary anthem about life, music, and pondering the long, strange trip. "Old Wolf" is a stomping snapshot of a dive bar and its regulars, with Ray giving us his best Warren Zevon howl. My only complaint here is that there's a sameness of sound in general, and across the first half of the album in particular. A little variance in tempo and melody could have brought the record up a notch or two in my book. Still, anything from Ray is hardly unwelcome and he's consistently consistent - a legend by any standard - and Tell the Devil I'm Gettin' There As Fast As I Can gives you exactly what you need, no more, no less.

The album is available everywhere you might imagine.

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