Hayes Carll

Jim Lauderdale - This Changes Everything (2016) {Sky Crunch Records SCR3981}
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© 2016 Sky Crunch Records | SCR3981
Country / Alternative Country / Traditional Country / Texas Country

It was back to traditional country for Jim’s 2016 release This Changes Everything, recorded in Texas with a strongly Texas flavour to the music. Steel guitarist Tommy Detamore produced, and a number of Texas mainstays formed the backing band. Most of the record was produced in a single all-day session.

Ray Wylie Hubbard - A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenmer Hint There is no C (2010) {Bordello Records BOR 10-002}
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© 2010 Bordello Records | BOR 10-002
Blues / Country Blues / Texas Blues

Texas songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard pushed life to the margin and lived to sing about it. In the process, his songs now possess the tenderness of a poet, the empathy of a historian, and the raw nerve of a card shark. On 2009’s A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There Is No C), he adds "mythmaker" to his songwriting qualities. Hubbard strips his music to the bone here, and uses the Mississippi Delta blues tradition to his own ends. His music is raw yet utterly contemporary and crafted. Snarling acoustic, slide, and electric guitars played bottleneck style, dirty mandolins, pots, pans, stomp boxes, basses, organs, harmoniums, drums, rattles, shakers, and tambourines are the instruments that fuel this impressive collection.

“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.”