★★★★★
With a mouthful of gravel, rusty nails and busted glass, Texas grit-monger Ray Wylie Hubbard is more potent now than when he was lobbing the hippie/biker/redneck standard "Up Against the Wall (Redneck Mother)," which grew to anthemic proportions as the cornerstone of gonzo, Lone Star denizen Jerry Jeff Walker's seminal Viva Terlingua...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
RAY WYLIE HUBBARD - Ray Wylie Hubbard may be best known as the composer of "Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother," and he also wrote "Wanna Rock 'n Roll," Cross Canadian Ragweed's party anthem. On his 'Delirium Tremolos' album, the Texas singer/songwriter with the strong, growling baritone primarily interprets songs of Eliza Gilkyson, Roger Tillison, James McMurty, Slaid Cleaves and others. Three originals from his own pen are also offered...
- rootsmusicreport.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Veteran Americana swamp rockers don't get any more grizzled or authentic than Hubbard. His 16th release is a beautifully realized and appropriately ragged work that combines his bluesy country rocking and gritty vocals with a "strip bar dirty" sound that can only be made by someone who has played dives and juke joints for over 40 years...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2012-05-10
★★★★★
Bordello Records I used to think the first 40 seconds of the Stones' "Gimme Shelter" made for one of the most tension-filled, terrifying opening segments in rock 'n' roll. I still do, but I have to tell you something, right now: ol' Ray Wylie Hubbard has managed to rival it. "South of the River", on his new album The Grifter's Hymnal, gets the job done in half the time. And only two chords. (The Stones used three.) Uh-huh - 'tis true, boys and girls...
- www.jambands.com
2012-04-02
★★★★★
Ray Wylie Hubbard's scrappy sound contains parts of everything that have made both rock and country albums from the '70s withstand the test of time. Grifter's Hymnal may have been released in 2012, but it could have been released at any point the Texan's career, which has spanned four decades of twangy ramblings and explored everything from spiritual beliefs to contemporary tales...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2012-04-02
★★★★★
Ray Wylie Hubbard's got a bad case of Richard Thompson syndrome: uniformly excellent recordings that make the craft of songwriting appear so effortless as to fool the average poet-strummer into thinking that a conversation with a silver-tongued devil is all it takes. Hubbard knows that's not true, but he's willing to play along...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2012-03-15
★★★★★
The vast expanse of desert soil we call Texas breeds a more cosmic brand of cowboy than you will encounter anywhere else in the world. Blame it on the heat, its richly diverse musical tradition, or the availability of cheap Mexican weed, but only the Lone Star State could spawn a man like Ray Wylie Hubbard. Ray Wylie Hubbard is one of the pillars of the Texas songwriting acropolis...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
As one of the elder statesmen of the venerable Texas music scene, it might make sense that Ray Wylie Hubbard would use themes such as redemption, reflective recollections of his youth and death in his music. From that aspect, he may lean a little towards Johnny Cashâ??s American V: A Hundred Highways in topics that represent his age in the world...
- www.the9513.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Any short list of top Austin artists of the last decade counts Ray Wylie Hubbard in its upper reaches. Eternal & Lowdown (2001), Growl (2003), Delirium Tremolos (2005), Snake Farm (2006), one after another, the Wimberley outlaw's output bumps 'n' grinds a bluesman's disposition and the lyricism of a fascist-killing folkie. Like Lucinda Williams, every blessed bon mot Hubbard drawls sounds lowdown - and eternal. (See also 1997's Dangerous Spirits...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2010-01-15
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