This album was requested and I am happy to share this nice rip with all of you Outlaw Country aficionados. As a matter of fact, this is right up there with any classic produced by artists such as Joe Sun, Rusty Wier or Randy Howard. "Of The Wall" is Ray Wylie Hubbard's second solo album. Before that, he did make an album with a group called Three faces West. A nice article about that period can be found on A Truer Sound. His first solo album, "Ray Wylie Hubbard & the Cowboy Twinkies" has recently been released on CD. Not this one, though. "Off The Wall" was released on Willie Nelson's Lone Star Records and is much harder to find. It features the Outlaw classic "(Up Against The Wall) Redneck Mother", made famous by Jerry Jeff Walker, which is a bit of a parody on Merle Haggard's "Okie From Muskogee". Though Merle apparently didn't care much for Ray Wylie's effort. Vocally Ray Wylie is somewhat reminiscent of David Allan Coe. 10 songs on this piece of vinyl, and it's all good. Yes. Bittersweet Funky Tuesday...
9 comments:
Fantastic. Thanks for posting this one. He is very underrated and more people need to hear him.
Thank you for blogging this lost album - it was lost soon after it was recorded because of Record Company shananigans. Not essential, but very good to have it again.
Thank you,
Joe in Dublin.
hi skydog,i found a ray willy hubbard link ( 2010 ) sorry no covers.
http://www.mediafire.com/?l52nui6rm66n5dt
Thank You Skydog. Much thank's!!!
Great album!!!
Thanx!!!
Check this Bulgarian blog:
http://oldbgrecords.blog.bg/
Thanks for this. Ray's in that universe of underrated greats like Jerry Jeff and Townes Van Zandt.
What a great forgotten album. Is there any chance of it being re-posted? I always seem to be a few days late.
Did you even try? Link is still active.
Re-upped on ziddu.
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