Ray Wylie Hubbard 70th Birthday Bash

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November 12, 2016. We're at the Ray Wylie Hubbard 70th birthday bash at the Paramount Theatre in Austin Texas. It's a great concert with many familiar faces.

In the photo album at left you'll find Slaid Cleaves, Scrappy Judd Newcombe, Hayes Carll, Jeff Plankenhorn and even Jerry Jeff Walker. There are several players I can't identify, if anyone can let me know. His son Lucas is one of the fellows on guitar but I'm not sure who the young woman is.

ConcertArchives, prodded me today ('26/11/12) and tells me that an exact setlist wasn't found. Here is their closest one (from 11/10/2016), which may be similar:

1. Rabbit
2. Snake Farm
3. Drunken Poet's Dream
4. Down Home Country Blues
5. Train Yard
6. Name Droppin'
7. Mississippi Flush
8. Mother Blues
9. Count My Blessings
10. Mr. Musselwhite's Blues
11. Stone Blind Horses
12. Cooler-N-Hell
13. Crazy Mama
14. Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother
15. Coochy Coochy
16. John the Revelator
17. The Messenger
18. Choctaw Bingo
19. Screw You, We're From Texas

Hmm... that doesn't include any of the songs by the other artists so it's not complete. I didn't take any notes so I can't say and can't remember what was actually played. I only recall that it was a lot of fun.

This was actually one of a series of concerts around Texas to celebrate the birthday. There were shows in Dallas and Houston (e.g., see James Killen review).  LoneStar magazine has a very nice article "Up against the wall, Birthday Hubbard!" by Richard Skanse.

Perhaps I ought to upload some of these photos to the ConcertArchives site. I obviously thought the archives might be important.

— This blog entry composed 26/11/12 and filed on the date of the concert.