Dangerous Spirits

Ray Wylie Hubbard - Dangerous Spirits

Dangerous Spirits
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Artist: Ray Wylie Hubbard
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-08-05
Music Label: Philo / Umgd
Soundtracks:
  1. Dangerous Spirits
  2. If Heaven Is Not A Place To Go
  3. Without Love (We're Just Wastin' Time)
  4. Hey That's All Right
  5. Last Train To Amsterdam
  6. The Last Younger Son
  7. Resurrection
  8. Crimson Dragon Tatoo
  9. The Sun Also Rises
  10. The Ballad Of The Crimson Kings

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Free Music Review: An unwavering look at life and its hard choices
Hit: 5 Stars

Ray Wylie Hubbard never seems to take the easy way out. "Dangerous Spirits" sums up nicely the cast of characters he sings about in this album. Mr. Hubbard's voice may not be the strongest around, but his unwavering look at life and its hard choices, often in the face of temptation, makes for fascinating material. One character, for instance, faces the dilemma of acceding to a preacher's demands "to kneel and pray" versus his attraction to a blonde who "gets to him in a real bad way." Another hears of the latest misadventures of his ex with what seems to be pangs or remorse that ultimately are topped by glee. The curse of those who are "born to write" is explored in another track.

This recording, which is more country than rock but not dyed-in- the-wool country, sparkles with plenty of crisp playing, from multiple guitars, to catchy percussion and keyboards. The arrangements here are more open and flowing than the thick sound on "Growl" and "Delirium Tremolos."

Music about philosophy, reincarnation, spirituality, temptation, salvation, and religion never sounded as brisk and accessible as they do on this fine album.

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Hubbard may have written "Up Against the Wall Red-neck Mother," but the song couldn't be farther from the meaning of his music. He's lived much of his life on the road--touring steadily for some 25 years now--leading from the birth of progressive country in Dallas and Austin, to fitful honky tonk recordings, to his country folk masterpieces Loco Gringo's Lament and the recent, and perhaps best, Dangerous Spirits. Hubbard has a wind scratched voice and a disposition both philosophical and spiritual that celebrates the beauties that, as he sings in "Ballad of the Crimson Kings," "sparkle and fade away." Hubbard's lyrical vision is fierce and unflinching, encompassing the existential shock of Flannery O'Connor and the mystery of fellow Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt. --Ray Francis Kasten

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