Ray Wylie Hubbard Tell The Devil I'm Gettin' There As Fast As I Can (CD)

(Bordello Records) 11 tracks - the 2017 album by Ray Wylie Hubbard. As usual, devilishly good stuff.

Whether you think the devil always has the best music or not, you can trust that the results are always pretty entertaining when he shows up in a Ray Wylie Hubbard song. And as any fan of Hubbard knows, the old devil shows up frequently in his songs - almost as often as all of Hubbard's wise-cracking black birds, lyrical and musical references to Lightnin' Hopkins, badass women (usually Hubbard's own wife Judy) and countless other crooks, ruffians and cantankerous cats of the crass and generic variety. Somewhere on almost every album by Ray Wylie Hubbard, the devil always gets his due - and on the acclaimed songwriter's latest album, Tell the Devil I'm Getting There as Fast as I Can, he's even made it to the top of the list.