Subject: Ray Wylie Hubbard

• Last Night: Adam Carroll & John Evans at McGonigel’s Mucky Duck

  June 11, 2008

• Out of Townes

  Emerging from Van Zandt's large shadow, Wrecks Bell finally steps into the spotlight

  October 19, 2000

• Aftermath: Randy Weeks at Discovery Green

  November 7, 2008

• Stingaree Music Festival and Texas Crab Festival in Crystal Beach, Texas

  Photos by J.C. ReidReason to celebrateTwo of the biggest annual events at Crystal Beach on the Bolivar Peninsula east of Galveston are the Texas Crab Festival and the Stingaree Music Festival. In its 24th year, the Crab Festival traditionally has occurred on Mother's Day weekend and celebrates everything culinary and cultural about those tasty Gulf Coast critters known as blue crabs. The Stingaree Music Festival, in its third year, usually has taken place in April and is the brainchild of countr

  June 2, 2009

• Slideshow: Snakes on an Album

  One of the songs slithering around Rocks Off's head lately is "Snake Farm," the title track to grizzled Hill Country troubador Ray Wylie Hubbard's 2006 album, where the singer and a comely employee of the ramshackle reptile house between San Marcos and New Braunfels get it on amongst the other tongue-flicking creatures. That set him wondering how many other musicians the legless vipers have inspired, both musically and visually, and it turns out quite a few others have snakes on the bra

  December 22, 2008

• Aftermath: Robert Earl Keen at House of Blues; Dash Rip Rock at the Continental Club; Hayes Carll at Warehouse Live

  Photos: Hayes Carll/ Craig Hlavaty; Dash Rip Rock, Robert Earl Keen/ Chris Gray On their 1996 self-titled debut LP, Hee Haw-loving Nashville ironists BR5-49 cut a song called "Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)." Anyone who has read either the paper or this site in the past few weeks will no doubt know that little Rocks Off has likewise gone hillbilly nuts. He hasn't stopped listening to other kinds of music completely, but lately, to paraphrase someone who was most definitely not a

  December 29, 2008

• Press Picks

  June 2, 1994

• Letters

  January 12, 1995

• Ray Wylie Gets Intense

  January 12, 1995

• Press Picks

  August 17, 1995

• Conroe Announces Second Annual Texas Independence Day Music Festival and Chili Cook-off

  The City of Conroe has announced the program for its second annual Texas Independence Day Music Festival and Chili Cook-off on March 7. The musical lineup:

  January 29, 2009

• Static

  August 1, 1996

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Gurf Morlix and Last Exit To Happyland

  Photo by Lynne Hawrelko What a beautiful world we'd be living in if Joel Osteen or Pat Robertson or Rush Limbaugh used Gurf Morlix as musical director. His new Last Exit to Happyland is full of aching songs full of deep humanity and decency as well as head-shaking social accusations and knife-to-the-throat post-love observational depression that may end up in alcoholism or a suicide before he gets to the end of the song. And Patty Griffin singing "I got nothin', I got nothing' left to lose" on t

  February 20, 2009

• Today: SpringFest in Old Town Spring

  Allison V. Smith/ www.maxstalling.comLots of twangy stuff going on in the North Woods this weekend. Scroll down a bit for the Texas Independence Day in downtown Conroe (starring Mr. "Screw You, We're From Texas" himself, Ray Wylie Hubbard) or, if you prefer, there's SpringFest - including wine tastings courtesy of nearby vineyards - a few miles down the road in Old Town Spring. This one's got folk and honky-tonk from Shake Russell (4:30 p.m.), Davin James (6 p.m.), Dallas' Max Stalling (a

  March 7, 2009

• Rotation

  February 4, 1999

• Randy Weeks

  February 5, 2009

• 2008 in Texas Albums and Local EPs

  January 1, 2009

• The Shredder

  One Show, One Sentence

  November 13, 2008

• Houston Music Festivals

  The last three weeks of this month promise to be hard on your wallet, eardrums and liver

  April 3, 2008

• 30footFALL Tenth Anniversary, with Middlefinger and Janitor

  Friday, May 30

  May 22, 2003

• Stingaree Music Festival

  Hayes Carll hosts a sandy shindig in a reverse hurricane

  April 26, 2007

• Jack Saunders

  Jack Saunders performs Friday, March 30, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

  March 29, 2007

• Cracker

  Thursday, June 15, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717

  June 15, 2006

• Mercy Eventually

  More than 20 years down the road, Mary Gauthier is finally an emerging artist

  February 2, 2006

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  November 10, 2005

• 2006 Houston Press Music Awards Supplement

  July 27, 2006

• Tony Joe White

  Friday, September 30, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

  September 29, 2005

• Macon Greyson

  Friday, April 29, at the Firehouse Saloon, 5930 Southwest Freeway, 713-977-1962.

  April 28, 2005

• The Bolivar Kid Strikes Again

  Hayes Carll continues H-town's hot streak with Little Rock

  April 7, 2005

• Owed to Billy Joe

  Today all the best poets are singers. That's why a singer should be Texas's next poet laureate.

  December 30, 2004

• Playbill

  September 30, 2004

• MOFRO

  June 24, 2004

• The Dirty Thirty

  The worst songs of all time from Texas

  April 29, 2004

• Caroline Herring

  Friday, January 23

  January 22, 2004

• Britannia Rules the Strand

  Galveston reanimates Victorian England for the 30th year in a row

  December 4, 2003

• Computer Error

  When it comes to local facts, don't rely on Allmusic.com

  November 27, 2003

• Ray Wylie Hubbard

  Saturday, August 16

  August 14, 2003

• Hothouse Flowers

  August 14, 2003

• A Beautiful Mind

  A spate of tribute shows salutes a healthier Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators

  May 8, 2003

• No Need for Nashville

  Houston Marchman fights for our cool country culture

  January 10, 2002

• Life Begins at 41

  Early success was almost the end of Ray Wylie Hubbard

  July 12, 2001

• Being Gary P.

  He packs dance halls across Texas. But how does he play in Peoria?

  June 28, 2001

• Wylie Coyote

  April 1, 1999

• Letters

  January 26, 1995

• Rotation

  September 8, 1994

• Rocks Off Pays a Call on El Campo

  A postcard of "downtown" El Campo in the 1930s.This weekend, Rocks Off escaped a Czech family reunion to do some sightseeing around El Campo, the tiny hamlet just off U.S. 59. Before the silent auction, we made sure to gorge ourselves on free beer and kolaches before making a quick exit out the back. El Campo is a sleepy town that boasts a three-screen movie theater ("Serving Wharton County since April 13, 1984"), a huge Buc-ee's convenience store on the outskirts of town and the ever-present sm

  June 29, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: My Son, the Guitar-Slinger

  William Michael SmithLance Smith (left) and Mike Stinson​ LOM grew up in the oil patch, made a good living in it, saw the world because of it. So it made sense to want our son, Lance, to grow up to be a petroleum engineer. Alas, it was not to be. Now he's a guitar player. Two years into the petroleum engineering program at University of Houston, LOM and the wife pulled the plug on Lance's financing. The logic? Exxon doesn't hire engineers with C averages who majored in frat party and skirt-cha

  August 5, 2009

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas, Part 2: "Trinity"

  [Note: This week Rocks Off is looking at the musical heritage, highs and lows, for each of the five possible states that might result should Texas secede from the U.S. like Gov. Rick Perry wants it to. Yesterday we began with the Panhandle/West Texas "Palo Duro" territory; today it's northeastern quadrant "Trinity."] View Five States of Texas in a larger map Trinity Capital: Dallas Patron Saint: Blind Lemon Jefferson ​Lesser Icons: T-Bone Walker, Alex Moore, Old 97's, Pantera, The D.O.C., Ray

  August 12, 2009

• Fall In

  October 1, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: The Mucky Duck Hits a Hot Streak In the Cool Weather

  Lonesome, Onry and Mean just noticed that venerable listening room McGonigel's Mucky Duck has a major streak of high-grade talent Nov. 12 through 17. Beginning with the Subdudes on the 12th, the Duck quickly plows through Texas legend Ray Wylie Hubbard (13th), troubadour-poet Tom Russell (14th), one of Nashville's biggest talents, Darrell Scott (15th) and George Strait hit writer/two-time Grammy winner Jim Lauderdale (17th). Since reforming a couple of years ago, the Subdudes have been packing

  November 4, 2009