December 18, 2008: Ray Wylie Hubbard
Oklahoma-born and Texas-based Ray Wylie Hubbard helped kick-start the progressive country music movement of the 1970s, and he still remains best known for the Jerry Jeff Walker-popularized anthem Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother. The instant cult status for Hubbard led him to assemble the Cowboy Twinkies in the mid-’70s, considered by many as the first ‘cowpunk’ group. Hubbard’s latest Snake Farm, recorded in 2006, features big, growling guitars and lyrics on women, dirty temptation and the devil. Hear Ray Wylie Hubbard in music and conversation live on Music with Jay Trachtenberg.
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