Ray Wylie Hubbard on Redneck Mother

The Inimitable Ray Wylie Hubbard tells the story of his inspiration behind his classic song "Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother". This was filmed at Jerry Jeff walker's Birthday Bash at the Paramount Theater in Downtown Austin Texas. You can see Jerry Jeff laughing in disbelief as Ray says to him "I made this story a lot better since the last time you heard it"

[@gregscavuzzo5457]

I was 17 in 1974 and no joke you could get hurt if you had long hair, I grew up in the country and had long hair but I found that most of the time if I showed respect and used my manners that I would be left alone, sometimes you had to fight your ass off

[@alansmith5295]

So many of these great singer-songwriter troubadours are gone now. I remember the heyday of Texas Music in Dallas. Places like Faces, Mother Blues (Ray wrote a great song about it) and Willie Nelson's Whiskey River...along with half a dozen small clubs that featured people like B.W. Stevenson, Jacky Jack, Steven Fromholz, Rusty Wier, Calico, Bugs Henderson, SRV, Guy Clark, and so many more. Robert Earl Keen is one of the last of the great story tellers in Texas.

[@cravinbob]

Jacky Jack Double Trouble but you forget Billy Joe Shaver already?!

[@stevemecrani9202]

A master story-teller is Ray

[@gratefuldug]

Godspeed Jerry Jeff Walker. You were quite the cosmic cowboy 🤠 pissing in the wind.

[@khingdheano]

Hubbard's been a good friend of mine for almost 40 years now... jesus christ... and he still makes me laugh my ass off...

[@TulsaGirlForever]

Ray can make ANY story better man, he's only for those w/ acquired taste & what a trip it's been to see him thru the years, all the way back to Cain's Ballroom in the old fogey days! I LOVE this video, one of the best on YT. I do wish the song followed but one can only stand so much greatness in one spot. Luv that Ray & all the cosmic cowboys!!

[@davidklein1667]

I just wanna be..a cosmic cowboy. Hoot. Hoot !

[@MrKrwillis72]

Sure he's only for those with an acquired taste. If don't thoroughly enjoy him, .... You need to acquire some taste!

[@kathydoyle5134]

100%

[@lindahoffman2692]

A LONG WAY from Bad Trick with Ringo Starr, Chris Robinson and Joe Walsh (a great song and video)!! Ray Wylie has always been a class act but it’s a trip to see him here then on Fallon singing Drunken Poet! The YEARS pas for all if us yes?? 💕

[@GMAW56]

I'm a hipneck! lol Have listened to this son for at least 30 years and this has got to be the best. I love Ray Wylie!!

[@mountainwoodie9816]

God bless the hippie cosmic cowboys.........by Jerry Jeff...........thanks

[@loessfool]

I remember (vaguely) a night in Omaha on 10th and Howard, sitting with Ray and "Rut" Reynolds when he launched into a story about how he was having a custom guitar built in the shape of the state of Texas. He had us until he said "it plugs in down around El Paso" A masterful storyteller then and now.

[@toterola451]

I love these ol' boys. They are the heart and soul of my favorite music in the world. Good times!

[@tcsmith9924]

I miss JJ. Saw him numerous times in little places. And I remember Armadillo World Headquarters. Jim Franklin had it, and remarkably he also did the artwork for Commander Cody's album "Live at Armadillo Headquarters" oh well I'm old

[@jasoncooper2414]

I have never, ever heard someone sing Redneck Mother at the jam who didn't realize that they're the punchline of RWH's joke

[@raceprophet369]

I used to go up there back then.............B.W. Stevenson worked at the swimming pool, taking quarters from us camping tourists....back in the day...........I doubt music will ever be that good again~

[@Recycledhooligan]

A great awesome storyteller

[@rachaelsiebers]

Love ya Ray. Cosmic cowboys forever.

[@jeffdickinson8351]

Ray 56 years old ran across you a year ago I've been an avid admirer ever since deer on my phone 2 hours every day jamming out to your songs, please come to Indianapolis

[@lonestardude6283]

“How’d you know my name” love it!

[@mqrieck]

Love the hell out of that story! So funny and well told.

[@Bill_N_ATX]

RWH is a great story teller in song, prose, or in person. I once got to hear how he met Willie Nelson backstage at a Willie picnic. It’s a great story but probably not one to tell on KZbin. So if you ever get to talk to him, just ask him how he met Willie. It will be worth your time. By the time he was done, most of the bus was in tears.

[@geraldbailey9870]

I used to go see the THREE FA WEST band in Red River NM,I met Ray and one of his band friends Wayne Kid ,they were fun and good

[@texeast6933]

I'm at Ray and Winnsboro Texas had front row seats even got to go back stage and bullshit with him he signed a guitar for me he was a pretty good fella

[@PETER-rj4he]

..armadillo world was a wonderful time..🔥

[@kathydoyle5134]

Ray Wiley….. I do love him. I first met him in 1975. Nah not really. My then boyfriend had those albums and that’s how I learned of all those good timing guitar players.

[@thomasstafford4318]

Thanks Mr Murphy

[@whvance]

what a great video

[@kathleenbergeron1292]

Jerry Jeff is such a great straight man here.

[@rainman0006]

I had a big crush on him when I was younger.

[@GMBogart]

JJW - So many good times.

[@mountainwoodie9816]

Freakin hilarious.god I remember..........

[@mygoddess1]

WICKED AWESOME & TRUE lol I REMEMBER WHEN I was living on the N.M /TX border :) & I'm still alive Yeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaaaaa! THANK GOD! I walked into a bar in Alice tx. looking for Alice's Restaurant tee hee hee well those guys were lookin' at me like I was a alien & I found Alice's restaurant -evil guys looking at me 10 gallon hats etc...I guessed it was a NO hippy allowed place & ya know that when the waitress flips the menu over & it says WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO ANYBODY ...Thanx Piggylou 4 posting a funny memory :) :) :)

[@cslloyd1]

the story telling reminds me of Alice's Restaurant.

[@cravinbob]

He was not kidding about having longhair in those days- You took your life in your own hands if you should end up in the wrong place you could end up on your face. With a haircut performed with a jack knife or a razor. If you were lucky.

[@horsehide3039]

cravinbob, only too true. I was one of the cowboys and at a given place and time, things could go bad for a longhair. Just the way it was in the world then. That said, I knew a few sure nuff shitkickers that grew their hair long just to show how tough they were, haha.

[@cheezecakecherry3602]

Amen

[@funeralbillii9172]

BLACKBERRY SMOKE sent me here via "Good one coming on"...Thanks, Charlie!!

[@ricardo8891]

AMEN

[@XOkie]

Love how Cosmic Bob Livingston is taking pictures!

[@terrymulloy1977]

I drove jeeps in Red River when Bob Livingston played at Texad Reds. Won't find a nicer guy.

[@catdaddy3302]

I used to go to a biker bar in Red River, NM, The Bull of The Woods.

[@MrBrian8749]

I remember these days...... I live at the lazy H in red river.... Boy the twitty boys knew hall to party... Ray played for 200 and all the ripple he could drink.

[@ellentuton7642]

I believe that was Dallas on Harry Hines!

[@rogermoore7140]

That there, is a great story. Had this notion that Ray Wylie was like, 70.

[@HookEmTexasHorns]

Best part of all is I get to live in Austin. 8^)

[@Nivasi]

miss these . miss REAL musicians!

[@cravinbob]

Bud Shrake had related a story back in about 1976 of how some rodeo cowboys had, as Bud put it, "stomped a mud hole in Jerry Jeff's ass". Jerry Jeff (a.k.a. Jacky Jack Double Trouble) howled at them from from his "stomped mud hole" position, "Come on back! Hell, I been beat up worse than this by bikers!" Hence the knowing laughter from JJW...

[@MrTwister50]

I always wondered where that came from. Thanks.

[@sparkyevers1982]

Goddamn i hope thats true

[@dilligas66]

I’d always heard JJ was getting his ass kicked by bikers and while he was losing was screaming at them that rodeo cowboys were tougher than they were. Either way, a heck of a story even if that’s all it is...

[@RobFerrara216]

"Did ya get the beer?" - A man of proper priorities. :)

[@ASSHOLE123456ish]

This is way way way back when Ray became the hill country Dolly Lama

[@omybeethoven]

Fun

[@laurashepherd9979]

. . .and I am a hipneck too! 😄

[@millert06]

nope. it was before that. it was back in the 90s at a birthday bash in the pairmont in austin at a birthday bash. great weekend for all!

[@ricardo8891]

Ha la lu ya

[@Piggylou]

@electricavenue109 I believe it was 2001 at Jerry Jeff's Birthday Bash

[@robertcudlipp3832]

Jerry Jeff looks unsure of what is going to happen next!

[@85jaded]

i love this song on that 70s show lol

[@bigunone]

LOL My cousin from Virginia was visiting us in NM. He had hair down past his shoulders, we were out driving around one night and he decided we needed some beer, so he pulled into this bar. He had been gone a short while when all the sudden the door flew open he came charging out yelling "Get us out of here" so I slid over into the drivers seat as he dove through the Passenger side I dropped the clutch and let the 426 howl as I grabbed second I looked in the mirror as the door slammed open again and a bunch of guys with cowboy hats came charging out I stuck it into third as he complained "Why didn't you tell me that was a cowboy bar?" How was I to know I was underage? I think of him every time I hear this song and to hear the back story just makes it more relevant.

[@brettcostley3083]

This is awesome. But why did you stop before the actual song?

[@ricardo8891]

Hix RR USA!.

[@ricardo8891]

Y'all

[@ricardo8891]

Red white & BLUE

[@eduardodelagarza4787]

Reminds me of arlo Guthrie lmfao, Semper Fi and Erin go Braugh

[@joannehack7588]

☮️🇺🇦

[@joannehack7588]

😁

[@joannehack7588]

What an awesome clip

[@GMAW56]

oooo maybe its been 40 ;-)

[@jimmipennington1704]

hay ray tell them who we are

[@jamcrane3]

@mollysue66 What's funny is a lot of folks don't think there can be any such animal!

[@gilliangirl1]

@DougMPC Red Deer Alta.... haha, ain't that the truth!

[@PatrickRobinsonOCVapes]

I heard this story 1st hand from Chip McElroy, who was there.

[@blueskiesblue]

I was at Water Aerobics today (Colorado), and the last 'stretches' are done up against the pool wall. Suddenly, the swim coach yelled "Up against the wall", and then proceeded to sing this song. We all laughed so hard, we almost drowned. I've never heard the song, so came here to 'experience it' for the first time. THANK YOU! Five-Star GREAT! Great, Great Great!

[@1stSaintsFan]

Livin' in Dallas for 20 years and seeing Ray Wylie at some shows pissed out of his mind on who knows what, he can maked up all sorts of shit about this song...It is his joy to pull motherfucker's legs sometimes...I like this version as well as any..Who Knows and Who really care. I just know that my Freshman year in 1975 in College my frat brother's and I got drunk as hell on J. Jeff Walker's version...

[@SLM187345]

Was that his 50th birthday in 1991? I was there!

[@electricavenue109]

does anyone know what year this was recorded? just curious.

[@frankshear3713]

Feb 24 2007

[@marklehn2666]

blackberry smoke

[@patrickalberini7155]

Does anyone know what year this was? Thanks

[@edwardjnarrojr3135]

Beer logistics

[@ricardo8891]

Echo

[@tootwotone]

It would have been nice to include "THE" song.

[@troydhansen4990]

You guy's ain't so tough...

[@hdstudiosdanaandrobinjenki3992]

well geus we.ll type in jerry jeff walker to here the song because as usually Ray Wylie Hubbard can only talk and play two cords

[@MrBfehse]

I wish I could make such wonderfull music with only one guitar and two cords like Ray Wylie Hubbard.

[@robertbryan7373]

Nah....your as ignorant as u r old...d bag...

[@robertbryan7373]

Robert Bryan that comment was for jerk off jenkins.....just so u know

[@robertbryan7373]

***** I actually dont rember...its been so long...I'll guess it was kinda salty...but to be sure..you'd have to ask your mother....cause I didnt kiss her afterwards....

[@jstark5128]

+Dana Jenkins most of these videos, he only has 4 strings, but still gets 4 jalopenos

[@robertbelair5041]

Don't believe a word of this introduction, but he can tell a BS story can't he.

[@jamesmccormick211]

What don't you believe? Seems perfectly plausible.

[@roberts1924]

+Robert Belair Sounds plausible to me too, and funny as hell

[@EMoore-ck4po]

I expected a song not a BS story. I knew the song from the 60s, except in NYC it was called "up against the wall mother*****r!"

[@mountaingirl1995]

OK....I will ask it and rish looking stupid. Why is the name Gomer for the bartender funny?

[@mountaingirl1995]

thanks....good answer to a "Gomer" question:} thanks so much!!

[@claychandler3468]

Yap yap yap !! Annoying as. Hell