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Ray Wylie Hubbard

Dallas, TX

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Region: North Texas / DFW Conference: Texas Regional Rank: #151

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Did You Know

  • • Ray Wylie Hubbard taught guitar to future country star Jerry Jeff Walker in a Dallas music store.
  • • He penned "Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother" after a Fort Worth bar patron insulted him.
  • • Hubbard's 1992 album "Lost Train of Thought" marked a pivotal shift towards blues and grit.
  • • He initially resisted recording his own songs, preferring to write for others.
  • • Hubbard's music blends outlaw country with blues, folk, and spoken-word poetry.
  • • He collaborated with iconic harmonica player Mickey Raphael on multiple albums.
  • • "Snake Farm," a quirky song about a Texas reptile zoo, became a cult classic.
  • • Hubbard's raw honesty influenced a generation of Texas singer-songwriters.
  • • He received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting from the Texas Heritage Songwriters' Association.
  • • Hubbard's lyrical depth cemented his status as a literary storyteller in music.

Locations in Lyrics

198 location references across 41 songs

Songs & Places

Easy Money Down in Texas
Texas San Marcos, TX north texas Stephenville, TX Huntsville, TX New Braunfels, TX Houston, TX Justin, TX Fort Worth, TX Poteet, TX Lubbock, TX Austin, TX Shiner, TX Oklahoma Pearsall, TX Red Dirt Country, TX Waco, TX Haltom City, TX
"It's easy money down in Texas"
Dallas After Midnight
Dallas, TX San Angelo, TX
"Oh, Dallas after midnight"
Conversation With the Devil
Georgia Nashville, TN
"About how you went down to Georgia and played fiddle against that kid?"
Screw You, We’re From Texas
Texas Port Aransas, TX Delaware Austin, TX New Braunfels, TX Helotes, TX Dallas, TX Waco, TX
"Screw you, we're from Texas"
Mother Blues
Dallas, TX Louisiana Los Angeles, CA
"There was a night club in Dallas called Mother Blues"
The Messenger
Confederate States Fort Worth, TX Nashville, TN Santa Fe, NM
"In Spanish bordellos and confederate states"
Drunken Poet’s Dream
Rome, GA Memphis, TN Golden, CO
"I got a woman who's wild as Rome"
Redneck Mother
Oklahoma Texas Bardstown, KY Kentucky Sevierville, TN Pigeon Forge, TN Bakersfield, CA Muskogee, OK
"He was born in Oklahoma"
Bad on Fords and Chevrolets
Memphis, TN Texas Oklahoma Tishomingo, OK Detroit, MI Hays, KS Los Angeles, CA Abilene, TX California Las Vegas, NV
"I learned the blues in Memphis"
Drink Till I See Double
Detroit, MI Nashville, TN Lake Charles, LA
"You're as hot as a Cutlass 442"
Resurrection
Los Angeles, CA chihuahuan desert, TX Fort Sumner, NM New York City, NY Boston, MA
"That they found on that old winding sheet way off in L.A"
Texas Wild Side
Texas Fort Worth, TX Austin, TX Nashville, TN Waco, TX
"Take a walk on the Texas wild side of life"
Outlaw Blood
Detroit, MI Oakland, CA Memphis, TN Los Angeles, CA California Mississippi River, MS Mississippi Nashville, TN New Braunfels, TX
"She drives a 392 Scat Pack Dodge Charger"
Henhouse
Yankees
"He don't like Yankees or lima beans"
Jessie Mae
Mississippi Mississippi Delta, MS
"And the Mississippi blues"
Hellbent For Leather
Northeastern Oklahoma Los Angeles, CA Oklahoma Concord, MA Joshua Tree, CA Waycross, GA
"Northeastern Oklahoma is calling my name"
Choctaw Bingo
Oklahoma Kansas West Arkansas Texas Eufaula, OK Illinois East St. Louis, IL Dallas, TX Will Rogers Turnpike, OK Big Cabin, OK Cherokee Nation, OK Muskogee, OK Shawnee, OK Lake Texoma, TX Tushka, OK Baxter Springs, KS Southeastern Kansas
"We're goin' to Oklahoma"
Cooler-N-Hell
Detroit, MI Houston, TX Nashville, TN
"A '68 Camaro, candy-apple red"
Lucifer and the Fallen Angels
Arkansas Mobile, AL Nashville, TN New York City, NY Texas Tupelo, MS Albany, GA Los Angeles, CA
"I run over a squirrel in Arkansas"
The Way of the Fallen
Corpus Christi, TX
"Down in Corpus Christi always around midnight"
Count My Blessings
Navasota, TX Los Angeles, CA
"Go to Navasota after I'm done dying"
Tell the Devil I’m Gettin’ There as Fast as I Can
Austin, TX Los Angeles, CA Tulsa, OK Red Dirt Country, OK
"It’s a six hour drive to Austin and the Continental Club"
Down By The River
Rio Grande, TX El Paso, TX US-Mexico Border, TX
"Gonna take you down by the river"
Dust of the Chase
Oklahoma Texas
"I come down from Oklahoma with a pistol in my boot"
Snake Farm
New Braunfels, TX
"She works down at the snake farm"
Bad Trick
Nashville, TN
"Don't get any on you if you go to Nashville"
New Year’s Eve At The Gates Of Hell
Oklahoma Los Angeles, CA California Chicago, IL Atlanta, GA Montgomery, AL Memphis, TN Beverly Hills, CA
"all the way from Oklahoma"
Jessie may
Mississippi
Rabbit
Chicago, IL Clarksdale, MS Memphis, TN
"Howlin' Wolf said that"
Texas Wild Side (feat. The Last Bandoleros)
Texas
wild side
Austin, TX Fort Worth, TX Nashville, TN Texas
Drivin' Wheel
Texas
"My car broke down in Texas"
Even If My Wheels Fall Off (feat. Wade Bowen, Randy Rogers & Cody Canada)
Tulsa, OK Phoenix, AZ Amarillo, TX Barstow, CA Los Angeles, CA
"I lost a headlight west of Tulsa"
Mr. Musselwhite’s Blues
Mississippi Chicago, IL
"I was born in Mississippi"
Fancy Boys (feat. Hayes Carll, James McMurtry & Dalton Domino)
Nashville, TN Salton Sea, CA Montgomery, AL Georgiana, AL Littlefield, TX Abbott, TX Austin, TX
"We all end up in Nashville scroungin' for our next meal"
Naturally Wild (feat. Lzzy Hale & John 5)
Austin, TX
"So there we were at that club in Austin"
Bad on Fords
Memphis, TN Texas Oklahoma Tishomingo, OK Hays, KS Los Angeles, CA Abilene, TX California-Arizona-Nevada Border Counties, CA Las Vegas, NV
"I learned the blues in Memphis"
Loose
New Orleans, LA
"The girl walked like she owned Bourbon Street"
Train Yard
Mississippi River Bolton, MS
"Till the Mississippi runs dry"
The Beauty Way
Sangre de Cristo Mountains, CO Los Angeles, CA
"I worked the clubs along the Sangre de Christos"
Gen. Sam Houston
Huntsville, TX

Rivers & Roads in Song Nearby

Interstate 45 8 Trinity River 11 Interstate 20 13 Texas State Highway 199 8 Interstate 35 43

Connected Places

Lubbock, TX Abilene, TX Austin, TX Baxter Springs, KS Beverly Hills Hotel, CA Big Cabin, OK Chicago, IL Clarksdale, MS Club 69, OK Dallas, TX Denison, TX East St. Louis, IL Eufaula, OK Hartford, CT Hays, KS Las Vegas, NV Los Angeles, CA Memphis, TN Mobile, AL Muskogee, OK Nashville, TN Navasota, TX New Braunfels, TX New York City, NY Port Aransas, TX San Antonio, TX Santa Fe, NM Shawnee, OK Tishomingo, OK Tulsa, OK Tushka, OK Waco, TX
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