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Ray Wylie Hubbard

Dallas, TX

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americana Popularity: 44 Established Division

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Region: North Texas / DFW Conference: Texas Regional Rank: #55

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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

106 location references across 31 songs

Songs & Places

Easy Money Down in Texas
, TX San Marcos, TX Stephenville, TX Huntsville, TX New Braunfels, TX Houston, TX Justin, TX Fort Worth, TX Poteet, TX Lubbock, TX Austin, TX Shiner, TX , OK Pearsall, TX
"It's easy money down in Texas"
Dallas After Midnight
Dallas, TX San Angelo, TX
"Oh, Dallas after midnight"
Conversation With the Devil
, GA Nashville, TN
"About how you went down to Georgia and played fiddle against that kid?"
Screw You, We’re From Texas
, TX Port Aransas, TX , DE Austin, TX New Braunfels, TX Helotes, TX Dallas, TX Waco, TX
"Screw you, we're from Texas"
Mother Blues
Dallas, TX , LA Los Angeles, CA
"There was a night club in Dallas called Mother Blues"
The Messenger
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
, OK , TX Bardstown, KY , KY Sevierville, TN Pigeon Forge, TN Bakersfield, CA Muskogee, OK
"He was born in Oklahoma"
Bad on Fords and Chevrolets
Memphis, TN , TX , OK Tishomingo, OK Detroit, MI Hays, KS Los Angeles, CA Abilene, TX , CA 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 , 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
, TX 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 , CA , MS Nashville, TN New Braunfels, TX
"She drives a 392 Scat Pack Dodge Charger"
Henhouse
"He don't like Yankees or lima beans"
Jessie Mae
, MS
"And the Mississippi blues"
Hellbent For Leather
, OK Los Angeles, CA Concord, MA Joshua Tree, CA Waycross, GA
"Northeastern Oklahoma is calling my name"
Choctaw Bingo
, OK , KS , AR , TX Eufaula, OK , IL East St. Louis, IL Dallas, TX Big Cabin, OK Muskogee, OK Shawnee, OK Tushka, OK Baxter Springs, KS
"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
, AR Mobile, AL Nashville, TN New York City, NY , TX 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 , OK
"It’s a six hour drive to Austin and the Continental Club"
Down By The River
, TX El Paso, TX
"Gonna take you down by the river"
Dust of the Chase
, OK , TX
"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
, OK Los Angeles, CA , CA Chicago, IL Atlanta, GA Montgomery, AL Memphis, TN Beverly Hills, CA
"all the way from Oklahoma"
Jessie may
, MS
Rabbit
Chicago, IL Clarksdale, MS Memphis, TN
"Howlin' Wolf said that"
Texas Wild Side (feat. The Last Bandoleros)
, TX
wild side
Austin, TX Fort Worth, TX Nashville, TN , TX

Rivers & Roads in Song Nearby

Interstate 45 2 Trinity River 8 Interstate 20 10 Texas State Highway 199 8 Interstate 35 27

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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