Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Franklin County Trucking Company [2022] The Latest Adventures Of The...


Franklin County Trucking Company pays homage to the truck driving songs of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, while mixing in a dose of greasy rock'n'roll. "FcoTco" was the brainchild of Number 9 Blacktops guitarist "Skinny" Jim Rotramel, and kicked into gear by Supersuckers frontman Eddie Spaghetti.  “I had written a few truck drivin’ songs in the Number 9 Blacktops, and wanted to do an album paying respect to the old trucker country artists,” says Rotramel. “In 2013, Eddie and I were recording our 'Cool on my Right' album in Indianapolis. I mentioned to Eddie that I wanted to start a trucker band, and he said let him know when it comes time.” Rotramel ran the idea by former Number 9 Blacktops drummer Taylor Sprehe, along with Dallas Alice bandmate Sean Hopkins, who was also on board from the start. “I asked Sean to write a few of the songs. He wrote half, and I wrote half. Throw in a couple of covers, that was it. We tried to see who could write them the fastest. Sean won, but not by much.”

The band recorded its first album, The Adventures of the Franklin County Trucking Company, in 2017. The album met great feedback, and the band followed it up in 2019 with The Further Adventures of the Franklin County Trucking Company, with Colonel J.D. Wilkes from the Legendary Shack Shakers joining in on harmonica. Radio play from SiriusXM's Outlaw Country, along with big support from the truck driving community, helped to make this album a success as well. The band's third album, The Latest Adventures of the Franklin County Trucking Company", was released in April 2022. It features J.D. Wilkes on harmonica again, along with Ben Schreiber on fiddle.

01 - Mercy Sakes! Mercy Sakes!
02 - Big Rig Daddy
03 - 100 Mile Coffee
04 - Trucker's Bar
05 - Big Rig
06 - Truck It
07 - White Line Fever (feat. Jan-Michael Vincent)
08 - Truck 'em All
09 - Stubborn Kind
10 - Trucker Til I Die
11 - Sunday Driver
12 - Roadworn And Weary

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Monday, April 25, 2022

The Dog's Rock 'n' Roll Grooves: Volume 101


01 - Mary Monday & The Bitches - Popgun
02 - The Joneses - Graveyard Rock
03 - The Numbers - Big Beat
04 - The Heartdrops - Gonna Be Around
05 - The Kidnappers - Black Tea
06 - Horrorwood Ending - Back From Hell
07 - The Dirty Truckers - Stranger In Disguise
08 - Burning Heads - Pop A Pill
09 - The Shanghais - Tender Teens
10 - New Rocket Union - Trouble
11 - Tom Baker And The Snakes - Waitin For Nothing
12 - The Backdoor Society - Story No. 2
13 - S.U.G.A.R. - I Feel Alright
14 - Bart And The Brats - Livin' In The Future
15 - Scotty Saints And The True Believers - Hang On
16 - Poison Boys - Take A Chance With Me
17 - Smoker Dad - The Spins
18 - Not Moving L.T.D. - Don't Give Up
19 - Suzi Moon - Gold Record Autograph
20 - Franklin County Trucking Company - Truck It

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Sunday, April 24, 2022

Berni's A To Z Sounds: Volume 95


01 - The Eastern - The Road To Erewhon
02 - Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
03 - Ed Burleson - Honky-Tonk Heart
04 - Ed Dupas - Anthem
05 - Eddie & The Showmen - Squad Car
06 - Eddie Clendening - Be Good Or Be Gone
07 - Eddie Money - Gimme Some Water
08 - Eddie Sanders - Last Lonesome Pine
09 - Eddie Spaghetti - Never Thought I Would
10 - Eddie Vedder - Hard Sun
11 - Edgar Loudermilk Band - The Dark Side Of Lonesome
12 - Edward David Anderson - Bad Tattoos
13 - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - 40 Day Dream
14 - EG Vines - Good Enough
15 - E•I•E•I•O - She's Trouble
16 - Eileen Carey - Don't Get Me Wrong
17 - Eilen Jewell - Sea Of Tears
18 - El Gato Del Rio - Cocaine, Whiskey, And You
19 - El Pony Pisador - Wellerman
20 - Eldr - Nowhere Else To Go
21 - Electric Audrey 2 - Down At The Pub
22 - Electric Light Orchestra - Four Little Diamonds
23 - The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
24 - Elephant Stone - L.A. Woman

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Saturday, April 23, 2022

TWANGSVILLE REVISITED: Volume 209


01 - Beyond The Badlands - Black Hills
02 - The Big Train Wreck - Fire Truck
03 - Bob Mauldin - Wanted Man
04 - Brice & The Jackrabbits - Know My Name
05 - Casey Donahew - One Foot In The Grave
06 - Charley Crockett - Where Have All The Honest People Gone?
07 - Dale Watson - Act Naturally (feat. The Hillbilly Moon Explosion)
08 - David Quinn  - Low Down
09 - Drew Cooper - Madeline
10 - Franklin County Trucking Company - Sunday Driver
11 - The Freddie Steady Revue - Dear Delilah
12 - The Gallows Dance - Ordinary Day
13 - JJ's Country - Highwayman
14 - Joe Starr - Get Back
15 - Matt Horan - You Ain't Country
16 - Old Crow Medicine Show - Painkiller
17 - Orville Peck - Bronco
18 - Phil Lee - When's The Lovin' Comin' Back?
19 - Tan Sanders - No Chance In Dixie
20 - Tim Waters - Stevens 410

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Friday, April 22, 2022

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

RAY WYLIE HUBBARD

Photo Credit: Todd Wolfson

Ray Wylie Hubbard (born November 13, 1946 in Soper, Oklahoma) is a Texas Country singer and songwriter.

Hubbard grew up in town of Hugo, Oklahoma. His family moved to Oak Cliff in south Dallas, Texas in 1954. He attended W. H. Adamson High School with Michael Martin Murphey, who had his own band at the time. Hubbard graduated in 1965 and enrolled in college, at the University of North Texas, as an English major. He spent the summers in Red River, New Mexico playing folk music.

During his time in New Mexico, Hubbard wrote "Up Against The Wall, Redneck Mother", made famous by Jerry Jeff Walker's 1973 recording. Bolstered by the success of the song, he was signed by Warner Bros. Records. Hubbard then put together a band of friends and locals and in 1976 released Ray Wylie Hubbard & The Cowboy Twinkies. Unbeknownst to Hubbard, producer Michael Brovsky had decided to "Nashville-ize" the sound by adding overdub mixes and female backup singers to the recordings. The result was "a botched sound" that Hubbard disapproved of vehemently, but the album was released despite his attempts to block it.

Hubbard then recorded albums for various other labels for the next 10 years but struggled with sales; his mix of country, folk and blues elements did not find an audience. Although he recorded several albums, by 1985 he left the music scene after struggling with personal problems. His last album was 1984's Caught In The Act on his newly formed Misery Loves Company record label.

He returned to recording in the early 1990s, and released his album Lost Train Of Thought in 1991, followed by Loco Gringo's Lament in 1994. Eventually a steady following began to re-discover Hubbard's music and he has been recording steadily since. His guitar technique uses a strumming by the left (fretting) hand that is very old, but not frequently seen in double time without changing right hand beat.

He describes his 2017 album Tell The Devil I'm Getting There As Fast As I Can as rock & roll, though his style has become associated with outlaw country, which he makes fun of in the song "Lucifer And The Fallen Angels" singing, "Why go to Nashville knowing you never, ever gonna be mainstream? It’s better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."

01 - [1975] Ray Wylie Hubbard & The Cowboy Twinkies


01 - West Texas Country Western Dance Band
02 - Portales
03 - $60 Ford
04 - Bordertown Girl
05 - The Lovin' Of The Game
06 - Compromise
07 - Blackeyed Peas
08 - Jazzbo Dancer
09 - He's The One (Who Made Me #2)
10 - Belly Of Texas

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02 - [1978] Off The Wall


Ray Wylie Hubbard established himself as a different and braver kind of country artist with his great song "Redneck Mother." Not only did he make fun of rednecks, he made fun of their mothers as well. He even managed to irritate the normally calm Merle Haggard by appropriating a line from "Okie From Muskogee." Although the latter song had been delivered tongue in cheek to begin with, Hubbard's song can be considered something of an answer to the right-wing sentiments expressed by the narrator of the Haggard ditty. So Hubbard arrived with a splash, but the relative lack of impact he had on the country scene since then might have something to do with his inconsistency.
 
The listener who has enjoyed the redneck song, which needless to say kicks off the first side of this debut Hubbard album, will immediately come face to face with Hubbard's failings as he launches into the pretentious, whining "What a Way to Go." This song represents something of an innovative fusion, although maybe not one anyone is interested in hearing: the combination of country & western and Meatloaf.
 
Next up is some standard white boy Texas blues, kind of like Delbert McLinton with a headache. But it isn't a one-hit album by any means. The Tony Joe White cover boogies along nicely and can be added to the Saturday night "rock out" radio play list. And the edgy lyrics that made Hubbard so interesting in the first place are back on "Freeway Church of Christ."

The many and varied instrumentalists that came together for these sessions really shore up the music at times when the lyrics and Hubbard's dull voice don't have much to offer. Steel guitar player Larry White plays incredible licks, some of them on the worst songs.

01 - Redneck Mother
02 - What A Way To Go
03 - Bittersweet Funky Tuesday
04 - Prairie Madness
05 - Saturday Night
06 - Gypsies Got The Right To Steal
07 - Hearts Are Absent Tonight
08 - Radio Song
09 - Mexico Bar
10 - Freeway Church Of Christ

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03 - [1979] Something About The Night


01 - Texas Is A State Of Mind (Live)
02 - Hoodlums Of Love
03 - Dallas After Midnight
04 - Hello Early Morning
05 - Something About The Night
06 - Low Life Companions
07 - The Nights Never Get Lonely (Live)
08 - Volcano Love
09 - (The Last Recording Of) Redneck Mother (Ever) (Live)

Tracks 01, 07 & 09 recorded live at the Palladium, Dallas, Texas, April 14, 1979

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04 - [1984] Caught In The Act


Recorded live to digital, 2-track (no overdubs!) at Soap Creek Saloon, Austin, Texas, June 29, 1984 by Austin's Riverside Sound mobile recording facility.

01 - Running On The Wild Side
02 - Still Can't Believe You're Gone
03 - Hard Living
04 - Stand By Me
05 - Blackeyed Peas
06 - Dallas After Midnight
07 - Jenny Lynn
08 - Back To Louisiana
09 - Rockabilly Rock
10 - Shifting Sands

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05 - [1991] Lost Train Of Thought


Ray Wylie Hubbard self-released this album in 1991, selling it at shows throughout his home state of Texas. Despite its low-key origins, it introduced many to his intelligent, uncompromising songwriting.

01 - Here Comes The Night
02 - Sweet Lips Goodbye
03 - Basics Of Love
04 - These Eyes (With Willie Nelson)
05 - When She Sang Amazing Grace
06 - Runaway Freight Train
07 - Portales
08 - Rockabilly Rock
09 - Love In Vain
10 - Twist Of Fate
11 - Wanna Rock And Roll

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06 - [1994] Loco Gringo's Lament


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.

01 - Dust Of The Chase
02 - Just To Hold You
03 - Love Never Dies
04 - Little Angel Comes A-Walkin'
05 - After The Fall
06 - Wanna Rock and Roll
07 - I've Seen That Old Highway
08 - Didn't Have A Prayer
09 - Bless The Hearts Of The Lonely
10 - Loco Gringo's Lament
11 - The Real Trick
12 - The Messenger

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07 - [1997] Dangerous Spirits


Sheer determination is what makes this 1997 release a force to be reckoned with. Hubbard's songs mix styles and genres recklessly, using whatever he needs to get the point across.
 
While he doesn't have the greatest voice around, he puts his soul into his singing, leaving a memorable impression. None of these songs are comfortable, simple ditties about love and loss and all that...these are songs about life and pain in a way that country music usually doesn't cozy up to, with some genuinely creepy moments.

01 - Dangerous Spirits
02 - If Heaven Is Not A Place To Go
03 - Without Love (We're Just Wastin' Time)
04 - Hey That's All Right
05 - Last Train To Amsterdam
06 - The Last Younger Son
07 - Resurrection
08 - Crimson Dragon Tattoo
09 - The Sun Also Rises
10 - The Ballad Of The Crimson Kings

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08 - [1998] Live At Cibolo Creek Country Club


Ray Wylie Hubbard's greatest gift is as a songwriter, but writing great songs doesn't mean much if no one hears them, and Hubbard is fortunate that he can communicate his work to an audience with warmth, immediacy, and an accomplished actor's sense of drama.
 
In 1998, Hubbard and a handful of friends -- including ace guitarists Lloyd Maines and Stephen Bruton -- played an intimate, semi-acoustic gig at San Antonio's now defunct Cibolo Creek Country Club, and fortunately someone had the presence of mind to bring a mobile recording rig to the show. Live at Cibolo Creek Country Club captures Hubbard and his musicians performing a handful of his best songs on a night when he was in especially good form, and this disc also proves he's as good a storyteller as a tunesmith (his shaggy dog tale of angry goats, grumpy farmers, and bitter Swedish rock critics that leads up to "Last Train to Amsterdam" is worth the price of admission by itself).
 
Hubbard's vocals strike a fine balance between roadhouse smoke and poetic clarity, and his little band proves its mettle without getting in the way. The long version of "Wanna Rock and Roll" cooks harder than you might expect given the circumstances, and while Hubbard may protest a bit about closing the show with "Redneck Mother," you know he'd do it again if you asked him politely.
 
Live at Cibolo Creek Country Club offers proof that Ray Wylie Hubbard can perform his songs as well as he can write 'em -- and given how good those songs are, that's saying a lot.

01 - Loco Gringo's Lament
02 - Without Love
03 - Ballad Of The Crimson Kings
04 - When She Sang Amazing Grace
05 - Last Train To Amsterdam
06 - There Are Some Days
07 - The River Bed
08 - Last Younger Son
09 - Wanna Rock And Roll
10 - The Obligatory Encore

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09 - [1999] Crusades Of The Restless Knights


This 1999 release is a rewarding album because Hubbard is able to stir a few slivers of hope into the blackness. His songs are dusty hymns-prayers torn from stained pages. Hubbard is not about to let past demons and present soul-searching overwhelm his mischievous side.
 
The echoes of Hubbard's '70s-outlaw image were clearly fading when he began his remarkable artistic resurgence in the early '90s. They are but dim remnants here, pushed aside to give Hubbard room to make such a startling and mature record.

01 - Crows
02 - There Are Some Days
03 - The Lovers In Your Dreams
04 - Conversation With The Devil  
05 - Red Dress
06 - The River Bed
07 - This River Runs Red
08 - After The Harvest
09 - Airplane Fell Down In Dixie
10 - The Messenger

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10 - [2001] Eternal And Lowdown


This 2001 release is Ray Wylie Hubbard's blues album, though it is not blues in the traditional sense of 12-bar and three-chord progressions. However it is blues in feel, which is far more important. There are elements of slow country-blues to the soul styling from Memphis.
 
It is the spoken blues of Woodie Guthrie and Bob Dylan, but Ray Wylie has always been of that school of singer/songwriter going back to his early days. The big kicker here is that he has enlisted the stellar assistance of Gurf Morlix as both producer and guitarist.

01 - Three Days Straight
02 - The Sleep Of The Just
03 - Mississippi Flush
04 - Sugar Cane
05 - Night Time
06 - Black Dog
07 - Joyride
08 - Weevils
09 - Don't Bother Asking Me
10 - Didn't Have A Prayer
11 - After All These Years

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11 - [2003] Growl


Released in 2003, Growl is a record of an awareness gained; it is expressed in the most basic, elemental physical and emotional truths (from humor to doubt to surrender to anger at hypocrisy) in these songs.
 
The truth expressed on Growl -- the most aptly named of all Hubbard's recordings -- is in a dirty-hands, mud-romping, greasy, rock & roll inbred with Delta blues.
 
This is music comprised of exposed innards, cutting honesty, scab-ripping emotion, and pure, badass Texas attitude.
 
Produced by Gurf Morlix.

01 - The Knives Of Spain
02 - No Lie
03 - Name Droppin'
04 - Purgatory Road
05 - Bones
06 - Preacher
07 - Rooster
08 - Rock-N-Roll Is A Vicious Game
09 - Stolen Horses
10 - Little Mama
11 - Screw You, We're From Texas

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12 - [2005] Delirium Tremolos


It seems strange that folks like Ray Wylie Hubbard once lived such wild lives but have been able to make solid comebacks later in life. Strange, because Hubbard, on this 2005 release, sounds as good as he ever has.
 
Better yet, the album has a nice, mellow country sound, and Hubbard has discarded, for the time being, his penchant for preachy, comic songs. It doesn't hurt that the album's been produced by Gurf Morlix, nor that he's joined by great harmony singers like Patty Griffin and Eliza Gilkyson.
 
Hubbard's choice of songs are solid too, combining deep but real lyrics.

01 - The Beauty Way
02 - Rock And Roll Gypsies
03 - Dallas After Midnight
04 - Torn In Two
05 - Drivin' Wheel
06 - This Mornin' I Am Born Again
07 - Dust Of The Chase
08 - Roll And I Tumble
09 - Cooler-N-Hell
10 - Choctaw Bingo

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13 - [2006] Snake Farm


These 11 numbers released in 2006 are shot through with deep, growling guitars that sound like a hopped-up muscle car roaring past you late at night, reeking of Pennzoil and cheap thrills, while Hubbard's lyrics serve up tales of deals with the devil, encounters with a variety of difficult women, and sweet and dirty temptations in all sizes.

01 - Snake Farm
02 - Kilowatts
03 - Heartaches And Grease
04 - The Way Of The Fallen
05 - Mother Hubbard's Blues
06 - Rabbit
07 - Polecat
08 - Old Guitar
09 - Wild Gods Of Mexico
10 - Live And Die Rock And Roll
11 - Resurrection

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14 - [2010] A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There Is No C)


Texas songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard pushed life to the margin and lived to sing about it. In the process, his songs now possess the tenderness of a poet, the empathy of a historian, and the raw nerve of a card shark.
 
On this 2010 release, he adds "mythmaker" to his songwriting qualities. Hubbard strips his music to the bone here, and uses the Mississippi Delta blues tradition to his own ends. His music is raw yet utterly contemporary and crafted.
 
Snarling acoustic, slide, and electric guitars played bottleneck style, dirty mandolins, pots, pans, stomp boxes, basses, organs, harmoniums, drums, rattles, shakers, and tambourines are the instruments that fuel this impressive collection.

01 - A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There Is No C)
02 - Drunken Poet’s Dream
03 - Down Home Country Blues
04 - Wasp’s Nest
05 - Pots And Pans
06 - Tornado Ripe
07 - Whoop And Hollar
08 - Black Wings
09 - Loose
10 - Every Day Is The Day Of The Dead
11 - Opium
12 - The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

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15 - [2012] The Grifter's Hymnal


As a music lover of impeccable taste, odds are that you’re already looking forward to spending the better part of the next hour – and several more after that – getting rather obsessively familiar with this latest serving of song and groove from Ray Wylie Hubbard.
 
Having no doubt played his last album, 2010’s A. Enlightenment, B. Endarkenment (Hint: There is No C), to digital bits — and committed to memory such earlier chestnuts as Snake Farm, Growl, Eternal and Lowdown, Crusades of the Restless Knights, and maybe even everything else going all the way back to that 1975 Cowboy Twinkies LP that Hubbard himself would rather you forget – you probably can’t wait to tuck into The Grifter’s Hymnal and leisurely savor it from end to end.

This, of course, is how things should be. But a couple of variables could throw the above plan off the rails a bit. Suppose, for instance, that maybe despite that aforementioned impeccable music taste, you’ve somehow managed to make it this far into the 21st century without ever hearing of this Hubbard fellow.
 
Grim scenario, yes, but fear not; because whether you’re short on time due to an impending apocalypse or simply need a tidy introduction to bring you up to speed, the opening track on The Grifter’s Hymnal, “Coricidin Bottle,” tells you everything you need to know in just under two minutes.
 
What it tells you about The Grifter’s Hymnal is that the record rocks. And what it tells you about Ray Wylie Hubbard is, he’s the kind scrapper poet with the devil-may-care wherewithal to write both “lay down a groove like a monkey gettin’ off” and “shakes the mortal coil round my amaranthine soul” into the same song – and the lethal charm and chops to pull it off. - Richard Skanse

01 - Coricidin Bottle
02 - South Of The River
03 - Lazarus
04 - New Year's Eve At The Gates Of Hell
05 - Moss And Flowers
06 - Red Badge Of Courage
07 - Train Yard
08 - Coochy Coochy
09 - Mother Blues
10 - Henhouse
11 - Count My Blessings
12 - Ask God

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16 - [2015] 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.
 
Beginning with 2001's aptly-titled Eternal and Lowdown through to his latest and greatest release, 2015's The Ruffian's Misfortune, he has spent well over a decade now chasing hellhounds through muddy waters and deep into the underbelly of the blues, with a Lightnin' Hopkins gleam in his eyes and a Rolling Stones swagger in his step.

01 - All Loose Things
02 - Hey Mama, My Time Ain't Long
03 - Too Young Ripe, Too Young Rotten
04 - Chick Singer, Badass Rockin'
05 - Bad On Fords
06 - Mr. Musselwhite's Blues
07 - Down By The River
08 - Jessie Mae
09 - Barefoot In Heaven
10 - Stone Blind Horses

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17 - [2017] Tell The Devil I'm Gettin' There As Fast As I Can


Tell The Devil I'm Gettin' There As Fast As I Can isn't a concept album, per se, its songs fit neatly together to chart a Dante-esque journey from Paradise Lost all the way to the final reckoning of "In Times of Cold." "There's a definite beginning, middle, and end to this record," says Hubbard, who's joined on that last song by the ever-exquisite Patty Griffin. "It starts with 'Genesis,' and at the ending, there I am trying to plead my case before the court of heaven, hoping I've got a good lawyer."
 
That wry Ray Wylie wit, can be found in spades here, along with heaps of the patented "grit 'n' groove" that's been a Hubbard hallmark and one of the most oft-imitated but never-equaled signature sounds in all Americana, going back to 2001's Gurf Morlix-produced Eternal and Lowdown and especially since his vicious "Snake Farm" in 2006.
 
Produced by Hubbard himself at The Zone in Dripping Springs, Texas, with his lead-guitar playing son Lucas and drummer Kyle Schneider joined by Jeff Plankenhorn (Dobro and mandolin), Bukka Allen (B3 organ), and both studio owner Mike Morgan and engineer Pat Manskee on bass.

01 - God Looked Around
02 - Dead Thumb King
03 - Spider, Snaker And Little Sun
04 - Lucifer And The Fallen Angels
05 - Open G
06 - House Of The White Rose Bouquet
07 - Tell The Devil I'm Gettin' There As Fast As I Can (feat. Eric Church, Lucinda Williams)
08 - The Rebellious Sons (feat. Bright Lights Social Hour)
09 - Old Wolf
10 - Prayer (feat. Jeff Plankenhorn)
11 - In Times Of Cold (feat. Patty Griffin)

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18 - [2020] Co-Starring


Ray Wylie Hubbard is the secret handshake amongst those who know. Earthy, real, funky, unabashed, his 17 album catalog has been swapped and played on the road for decades.
 
That passion for the man who's as much a renegade poet as a roadhouse saint brought together an eclectic mix of guests for Co-Starring, his first ever high-profile label release.
 
Ringo Starr, Joe Walsh, Pam Tillis, the Black Crowes' Chris Robinson, and Ronnie Dunn were just a few who clamored to jam with the wizened icon.

01 - Bad Trick (feat. Ringo Starr, Don Was, Joe Walsh, Chris Robinson)
02 - Rock Gods (feat. Aaron Lee Tasjan)
03 - Fast Left Hand (feat. The Cadillac Three)
04 - Mississippi John Hurt (feat. Pam Tillis)
05 - Drink Till I See Double (feat. Paula Nelson, Elizabeth Cook)
06 - R.O.C.K. (feat. Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown)
07 - Outlaw Blood (feat. Ashley McBryde)
08 - Rattlesnake Shakin’ Woman (feat. Larkin Poe)
09 - Hummingbird (feat. Peter Rowan)
10 - The Messenger (feat. Ronnie Dunn, Pam Tillis)

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19 - [2022] Co-Starring Too


Rogue. Rocker. Texas Texture. Ray Wylie Hubbard made such a mark with Co-Starring, the shape-shifting songwriter decided once was not enough. The louche beacon of cool went even wider into his coterie of confidantes, emerging with Co-Starring Too, featuring Willie Nelson, Steve Earle, and Ann Wilson to name a few. Always eviscerating songwriting, this is a post-Outlaw Country take on what it means to be unafraid of a good time and a romantic wildly committed to the ideals of the heart.

01 - Stone Blind Horses (feat. Willie Nelson)
02 - Groove (feat. Shinyribs’ Kevin Russell & The Shiny Soul Sisters)
03 - Only A Fool (feat. The BlueBonnets)
04 - Hellbent For Leather (feat. Steve Earle)
05 - Naturally Wild (feat. John 5, Lzzy Hale)
06 - Fancy Boys (feat. Dalton Domino, Hayes Carll, James McMurtry)
07 - Texas Wild Side (feat. The Last Bandoleros)
08 - Even If My Wheels Fall Off (feat. Cody Canada, Randy Rogers, Wade Bowen)
09 - Pretty Reckless (feat. Charlie Sexton, Gurf Morlix, Jaimee Harris, Wynonna Judd)
10 - Ride Or Die [Montar O Morir] (feat. Ann Wilson, Eliza Gilkyson, Lucas Hubbard, Ringo Starr, Steve Lukather)
11 - Desperate Man (feat. The Band Of Heathens)

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Saturday, April 16, 2022

The Dog's Rock 'n' Roll Grooves: Volume 100


01 - Not Moving - You're Gone Away
02 - The Datsuns - That Sure Ain't Right
03 - The Waste*ations - So Long
04 - The Anomalys - See Me Bleed
05 - Painted Air - I Don't Get It
06 - The Terraces - Nothing At All
07 - Suede Razors - Berlin Or Bust
08 - Sweet Reaper - Pleasure
09 - The Killer Barbies - Less Love
10 - Ricky Rat - Born In Detroit
11 - Wasteland Viper - Steed Of Steel
12 - Mad Marge And The Troublemakers - Weight Of The World
13 - Tiger Rouge - One Day, One Night
14 - The Hellacopters - A Plow And A Doctor
15 - Rock And Roll Junkie - 5 Steps Ahead
16 - Snakebite Delight - Mad Distraction
17 - Bitch Queens - 2000 & Late
18 - Wasted - Gentrifucked
19 - Jet Black Romance - Take It All
20 - Captives - Gold

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TWANGSVILLE REVISITED: Volume 208 - The 3rd Readers' Pick Edition


Here you go folks, hope you all like this top notch compilation as much as I do. Great stuff indeed!!

HUGE THANKS to all the people who contributed to make this compilation a reality.

01 - Austin Lounge Lizards - Rock And Roll Lawyer [Live] (Bonita)
02 - Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez - Keep Your Hat On Jenny (Deadmandeadman)
03 - The Dad Horse Experience - Huggy Bear Motel [At The Limbo] (GEORGE ATHANAS)
04 - Demo Daddies - Post-Modern Existential Country Western Blues (EF Ploetz)
05 - Devil Doll - Doreen (nekrodad)
06 - Elijah Ocean - Born Blue (Moe)
07 - Fatboy - A Touch Of Blue (Cacá.revolutionrock)
08 - Gary Louris - White Squirrel (spunkyonions)
09 - Howlin' Ramblers - I'm A Hobo (MANUEL)
10 - Joan Osborne - Masters Of War (giannes61)
11 - The Kwyet Kings - Ooh, I Love You (Mitch Useless)
12 - M.M.S. Kaiser - Which Door Will Open (vacabilly)
13 - Macon Greyson- Life Of Riley (Jimbo)
14 - Radney Foster With Pat Green - Texas In 1880 (Berni)
15 - Ray Wylie Hubbard - Snake Farm (simonthecat)
16 - Seasick Steve - Started Out With Nothin' (Grey Hound)
17 - Stephen Simmons - Shine (Rocking Pig)
18 - The Swamp Stompers - Fly (Bondie)
19 - Tom Hudson - If She Ever Calls Again (secret)
20 - Don Michael Sampson - Bad Water (barkingdog)

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Contributor's name has been added to the comment field of each track's file properties.

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Berni's A To Z Sounds: Volume 94


01 - Dakota Ritter - Take My Ring
02 - Dag Erik Oksvold - Love You More
03 - Dallas Alice - Call Me White Trash
04 - Dallas Moore - Mama & Daddy
05 - The Dalles - You Ain't Teachin' Me Anything
06 - Daniel T. Coates - Blackhearted Night
07 - Danny Phegan - The Three Parts Drunk 4 AM After Hours Domestic Terminal Blues
08 - Danny Romero - Mama Raised An Outlaw
09 - Darden Smith - After All This Time
10 - Darin And Brooke Aldridge - Blue Baby Now
11 - Dario SN - Ghost Town
12 - Dark Country - Sign Of The Dog
13 - Dark Tea - Timing
14 - Darlin' Brando - When You Don't Fight
15 - Darlingside - The Ancestor
16 - Darrel Higham - Hey Ruby
17 - Darrell Scott - Hopkinsville
18 - Darryl Worley - Awful Beautiful Life
19 - Dave Alvin - 11 Months And 29 Days
20 - Dave Edmunds - Girl's Talk
21 - The Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over
22 - The Daredevil Christopher Wright - How To Get My Head Back On My Shoulders
23 - Dar Williams - Comfortably Numb

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The Dog's Rock 'n' Roll Grooves: Volume 99 - The Covers


01 - The Joneses - Crocodile Rock (Elton John)
02 - The Vibrators - Rave On (Sonny West)
03 - Social Distortion - It's All Over Now (The Valentinos)
04 - Guitar Gangsters - Mother's Little Helper (The Rolling Stones)
05 - Demented Are Go - Funnel Of Love (Wanda Jackson)
06 - The Kings Of Nuthin' - Banned From The Pubs (Peter And The Test Tube Babies)
07 - The Capaces - Satan's Highway (The Hookers)
08 - The Bonitos - The Break Up Song (The Greg Kihn Band)
09 - Meatbeaters - Ute (The Vee Bees)
10 - The Hookers - Ready To Burn (Krokus)
11 - Plan Of Attack - All The Lessons (Rose Tattoo)
12 - The Vee Bees - Never Miss The Bowl (Meatbeaters)
13 - Moron's Morons - Wine And Depression (New Bomb Turks)
14 - Vice Squad - Iron Fist (Motörhead)
15 - We Are Wasted - Born To Be Wild (Steppenwolf)
16 - Lester Greenowski - Watch That Man [feat. Wilko Zanni] (David Bowie)
17 - Die Toten Hosen - Getting Beaten Up (The Piranhas)
18 - Skids - Violence (Mott The Hoople)
19 - The Queers - (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone (Paul Revere And The Raiders)
20 - The Disables - On The Turning Away (Pink Floyd)

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Monday, April 4, 2022

The 3rd Readers' Pick Edition Update

Okay folks, have the following 17 tracks for the comp:

Austin Lounge Lizards - Rock And Roll Lawyer [Live] (Bonita)
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez - Keep Your Hat On Jenny (Deadmandeadman)
Devil Doll - Doreen (nekrodad)
Elijah Ocean - Born Blue (Moe)
Fatboy - A Touch Of Blue (Cacá.revolutionrock)
Gary Louris - White Squirrel (spunkyonions)
Joan Osborne - Masters Of War (giannes61)
M.M.S. Kaiser - Which Door Will Open (vacabilly)
Macon Greyson- Life Of Riley (Jimbo)
Radney Foster With Pat Green - Texas In 1880 (Berni)
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Snake Farm (simonthecat)
Seasick Steve - Started Out With Nothin' (Grey Hound)
Stephen Simmons - Shine (Rocking Pig)
The Dad Horse Experience - Huggy Bear Motel [At The Limbo] (GEORGE ATHANAS)
The Kwyet Kings - Ooh, I Love You (Mitch Useless)
The Swamp Stompers - Fly (Bondie)
Tom Hudson - If She Ever Calls Again (secret)

If bulldogUK can send me 'George Barnes And Carl Kress - Watusi For Luci', which is a pretty obscure single from 1965, it will appear on the comp. If you are unable to do so, it won't be appearing on the comp. Am totally fine with you suggesting something else.

So, for the moment I am looking for another two contributions.

Saturday, April 2, 2022

The 3rd Readers' Pick Edition


Have decided to do another one and have the following 8 tracks so far:

Austin Lounge Lizards - Rock And Roll Lawyer [Live] (Bonita)
Elijah Ocean - Born Blue (Moe)
Fatboy - A Touch Of Blue (Cacá.revolutionrock)
Radney Foster With Pat Green - Texas In 1880 (Berni)
Seasick Steve - Started Out With Nothin' (Grey Hound)
The Dad Horse Experience - Huggy Bear Motel [At The Limbo] (GEORGE ATHANAS)
The Swamp Stompers - Fly (Bondie)
Tom Hudson - If She Ever Calls Again (secret)

Anyone wishing to contribute, please put the artist & track in the comments.

Looking forward to your contributions.

Friday, April 1, 2022

TWANGSVILLE REVISITED: Volume 207


01 - A.M. Merker - Alligator Boots
02 - Andy Golledge - Ain't Nobody
03 - Committee Of Vultures - Vainglory
04 - Dan Cugnet - Some People
05 - The Dead South - People Are Strange
06 - Greg Wickham - Me Oh My
07 - The Hooten Hallers - 40 Oz To Memphis
08 - Jefferson Ross - King Of Mississippi
09 - John Schneider - Working On A Building
10 - Justin Schumacher - Crashing Down
11 - Karoline And The Free Folks - Fairy Sprites
12 - Mason Justice - Never
13 - Michael Carpenter And The Banks Brothers - Judy's Got A Shotgun
14 - Miss Georgia Peach - You Blow My Mind
15 - Moonshine Wagon - Binge Drinking
16 - Ray Wylie Hubbard - Hellbent For Leather (feat. Steve Earle)
17 - Roadside Gamblers - Ramblin' Outlaw
18 - Steadman's Landing - Speedtime
19 - Taylor Nauta - Medusa
20 - William Lee Golden And The Goldens - Long Black Veil

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