Ray Wylie Hubbard

Ray Wylie Hubbard has risen over the last decade to elder statesman stature within the Texas music scene as well as earning his place as one of the most esteemed songwriters within American roots music. It's an accomplishment that actually surprises him. 'For so many years I was this wild child of progressive country. I wasn't even thinking about the future, much less anything like a legacy. And now here I am still doing it,' he notes with his typically wry bemusement.

But the fun, the wild life, and the substances that fueled it lost their allure for Hubbard by the close of the 1980s. Waking up from his years of rocking, rolling and raving, newly clean and sober, he took a cold hard look at what to do with the rest of his life.

The choice he made was to perfect the art he had used as a crafty way to make a living and have a high old time for a good couple of decades. Reemerging in 1991 with the album Lost Train of Thought , Hubbard signaled that he was now a songwriting force to be reckoned with. Over the five albums that followed, he became known as a master of everything from the poetic and poignant to the gritty and greasy.

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Ray Wylie Hubbard

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