Ray M. Bowen

“The whole album just kind of fell into place and I just kind of got out of the way of it,” Ray Wylie Hubbard tells Apple Music of his 18th full-length. That’s the low-key perspective of a singer-songwriter whose four-decade-spanning catalog of leathery Southwestern mysticism and wit is admired by many of his fellow music-makers. His 10-song set features a slew of them—big names like Ringo Starr and Ronnie Dunn and well-kept secrets alike—spanning country, rock, blues, and folk. “Each song kind of dictated who was going to sing on it,” he explains. “When I asked all these cats to be on it, I didn't have to use guilt or shame—I'm not above using that, but I didn't have to. I just called them up and they all said yeah, they would do it. That was so gratifying and humbling.”

For anyone in their mid-teens in the mid-5Os, and into music, it had to be rock'n'roll - American rock'n roll. There was no British equivalent to the sound. In the UK, it was Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, The Platters, Alan Freed, Radio Luxembourg, Voice Of America. If the right people get to know about this and hear the quality, this will sell and sell.

150 original early rock 'n' roll and rockabilly recordings from Jimmy Wages, Lee Cole, Ronnie Self, Pat Cupp, Tony Casanova, Walter Brown, Al Urban, Carl Phillips, Don Feger, Don Willis, Don Woody, Glenn Honeycutt, Gene Brown, Joey Castle, Mike Cashman and many others.
This superb collection is a must-have for all 1950s rockabilly fans and collections.

150 original early rock 'n' roll and rockabilly recordings from Jimmy Wages, Lee Cole, Ronnie Self, Pat Cupp, Tony Casanova, Walter Brown, Al Urban, Carl Phillips, Don Feger, Don Willis, Don Woody, Glenn Honeycutt, Gene Brown, Joey Castle, Mike Cashman and many others.
This superb collection is a must-have for all 1950s rockabilly fans and collections.