The 1970s produced an amazing crop of Texas singer-songwriters, though few have survived without some, shall we say, "life experiences." Transforming the pain and confusion of such experiences into self-revelatory, tight-rocking songs is what the Texas troubadour tradition is all about.
On his latest release "Eternal and Lowdown" on Philo Records, a subsidiary of the roots music specialist label Rounder Records, leading Texas figure Ray Wylie Hubbard shows us how it's done.