Ray Wylie Hubbard, Crusades Of The Restless Knights - 44m 23s

Tracks & Durations

1. Crows	4:52
2. There Are Some Days	5:08
3. The Lovers in Your Dreams	4:30
4. Conversation with the Devil	4:54
5. Red Dress	3:39
6. The River Bed	3:55
7. This River Runs Red	5:16
8. After the Harvest	4:03
9. Airplane Fell Down in Dixie	3:47
10. The Messenger	4:13

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Review

Once a staple of the Texas "Outlaw" songwriter scene, Ray Wylie Hubbard has moved beyond that scope in the 1990s with a series of highly literate and provocative records. Crusades may just be the best of the lot, filled with bold, inquisitive lyrics and wrapped in understated but vibrant country-folk settings. --Marc Greilsamer Nearly titled Ten Zen Sins, Ray Wylie Hubbard's second Rounder release extends and deepens the spiritual tug-of-war of his mature, postoutlaw work. Starting with the thunderous, folk-rock curse of "Crows," the album moves through tent-revival grooves, barrelhouse odes to red dresses, bottleneck meditations on plane wrecks, spare talking blues, elliptical ballads, and bluegrass-laced messages of hope. Rather than offer platitudes or pat answers, Hubbard tests the mysteries he finds with always one more intense temptation, one more unsettling question. Such is Hubbard's dense lyrical vision, and his musical settings are just as telling. For the first time he coproduces with Lloyd Maines, emphasizing the sounds of cutting slide guitar, Dobro, and mandolin and accenting his melodies with female harmony from Patty Griffin, Lisa Mednick, and Terri Hendrix. At a time when many singer-songwriters are courting the adult-contemporary audience with safe, pop-oriented fare, Hubbard's lyrical crusade remains tense, chancy, and remarkably wise. --Roy Kasten

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