Ray Wylie Hubbard will perform Saturday, June 20 at Buffalo Creek located at 10827 Highway 36 S. in Bellville, TX. Tickets: $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Limited seating is available. Matt Caldwell is opening the show at 8:00. A meal of brisket with brown gravy, parsley buttered potatoes, seasoned green beans,roll & banana pudding prepared by Miss Josie Sanders will be available for only $10 (cash preferred).
When it comes to down ’n’ dirty roots ’n’ roll, nobody in the wide world of Americana music today does it better than Ray Wylie Hubbard. Except, it seems, for Hubbard himself. After riding a decade-long career resurgence into the national spotlight with 2012’s acclaimed The Grifter’s Hymnal and his first ever appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman (“I didn’t want to peak too soon,” quips Hubbard, 68), the iconoclastic Texas songwriter is back to continue his hot streak with The Ruffian’s Misfortune — his 16th album (and third on his own Bordello Records, via Thirty Tigers)
From his humble beginnings as an Oklahoma folkie in the ’60s to his wild ride through the ’70s progressive country movement, and onward through the honky-tonk fog of the ’80s to his sobriety-empowered comeback as a songwriter’s songwriter in the ’90s, Hubbard was already a bona fide legend by the time he really found his groove right at the turn of the century. That’s when he finally felt confident enough in his guitar playing to dive headlong into his own inimitable take on the blues, a form he’d admired but steered clear of for decades, thinking its mysteries were beyond his grasp as a basic chord strummer.
Hubbard says, “When I wrote ‘Mother Blues’ for the last record, I wasn’t thinking, ‘I’ll put this album out and try to get on Letterman’ — he just heard the song on SiriusXM Radio and called up and asked for us. All I know is I feel very fortunate right now in that I’m playing gigs that are really fun to do. And as long as I can keep writing and performing new songs, I think I could keep doing this for awhile.
Buffalo Creek is so proud to present Ray Wylie Hubbard, June 20. Buffalo Creek opens at 7:00 with Matt Caldwell opening the show at 8:00. Seating will be on a first come basis. Buffalo Creek serves wine and beer in a comfortable setting overlooking a five acre lake with gorgeous sunsets.
