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"Dangerous Spirits"
Ray Wylie Hubbard may have written
"Up Against the Wall Red-neck Mother," but the song
couldn't be farther from the meaning of his music. He's lived
much of his life on the road--touring steadily for some 25 years
now--leading from the birth of progressive country in Dallas
and Austin, to fitful honky tonk recordings, to his country folk
masterpieces Loco Gringo's Lament and the recent, and perhaps
best, Dangerous Spirits. Ray Wylie Hubbard's wind scratched voice
and a disposition both philosophical and spiritual that celebrates
the beauties that, as he sings in "Ballad of the Crimson
Kings," "sparkle and fade away.--Ray Francis Kasten
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Customer review from Amazon
Reviewer: A music fan from music lover
in arkansas
i have'nt heard him live but i hope to. i listened to dangerous
spirits then a townes van zant album and think there are no better
songwriters than these kinds of people. i have always said that
on any night you can find a bar somewhere in ark., tex., ok,
or la. and find one of the best singer/songwriters you have heard.
some are famous some are not, but they still get out there every
night and play. sometimes they are too tired of life its own
self to play but they get up there. that is what you hear in
each note of this music. for someone to play bars frequently
alone, sometimes for 10 people, sometimes to a full house in
this part of the country is a hard way to make a living. it may
take 20 years of this type of touring to learn what you need
to know to write this kind of music. but, when someone with the
poet in their heart learns this way it makes it a treasure the
rest of us can share. the vocal talents are not exactly tony
bennett but the meaning of the words can rarely be better expressed
by someone else. the songs were meant to be sung by the writer. |
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