Ray Wylie Hubbard - 1994 - Loco Gringo's Lament [320]

This 1994 release from the Texas country singer-songwriter contains a sophisticated collection of acoustic and honky-tonk songs of lost love, retribution, and deliverance, given a sympathetic setting by Lloyd Maines's superlative production. Highlights include the rocking "Little Angel Comes a Walkin'" and the bleak, desolate "Dust of the Chase."

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Ray Wylie Hubbard - 1997 - Dangerous Spirits [320]

Hubbard may have written "Up Against the Wall Red-neck Mother," but the song couldn't be farther from the meaning of his music. He's lived much of his life on the road--touring steadily for some 25 years now--leading from the birth of progressive country in Dallas and Austin, to fitful honky tonk recordings, to his country folk masterpieces Loco Gringo's Lament and the recent, and perhaps best, Dangerous Spirits. Hubbard has a wind scratched voice and a disposition both philosophical and spiritual that celebrates the beauties that, as he sings in "Ballad of the Crimson Kings," "sparkle and fade away." Hubbard's lyrical vision is fierce and unflinching, encompassing the existential shock of Flannery O'Connor and the mystery of fellow Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt.

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