{"id":3917,"date":"2012-03-27T09:31:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=3917"},"modified":"2012-03-27T09:31:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T15:31:07","slug":"ray-wylie-hubbard-the-grifters-hymnal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/03\/27\/ray-wylie-hubbard-the-grifters-hymnal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Wylie Hubbard &#8211; The Grifter\u2019s Hymnal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3918\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/03\/27\/ray-wylie-hubbard-the-grifter%e2%80%99s-hymnal\/bord12003\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3918\" title=\"BORD12003\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/BORD12003-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.5926469066180289\"><br \/>\nIf you\u2019ve never heard Hubbard\u2019s particular brand of \u201cdeep-groove-in-the-blood-masterless-samurai-folk-poet-blues,\u201d then it\u2019s about time you did.<!--more--> His latest studio release, <em>The Grifter\u2019s Hymnal<\/em>, is a beauty, pure and simple. Man, is it good. Hubbard\u2019s sound has changed since his \u201ccosmic-outlaw-cowboy\u201d stuff of the early 70s, through to more singer-songwriter-stylings in the late 80s and into the 90s. But it\u2019s been in the new millenium that he\u2019s really found his groove, and this release is the culmination of a sound he\u2019s been mining since 2005\u2019s<\/span><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.5926469066180289\"><em> Snake Farm<\/em>. The tunes of <em>Grifter\u2019s Hymnal<\/em> are classic Hubbard. Tales of strippers, cards, chickens, guitars set to open-tuned blues riffs and spiced up throughout with literary allusions to the Bible, the old god\u2019s the blues and rock n roll, and modern prophets like Martin Luther King Jr. On the opener, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cu1Y_gt23jM\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cCoricidin Bottle,\u201d<\/a> Hubbard \u201clays down a groove like monkey getting off.\u201d \u201cNew Years Eve at the Gates of Hell\u201d sees Hubbard playing the Dante game, dragging the rock gods and the record execs that made\/leached-off them through the river Styx. \u201cCoochy Coochy\u201d features none other than Ringo Starr, a big Hubbard fan himself, rocking along and getting down and dirty with Ray and the boys. Get this disc, fire up the BBQ, and prepare to get greasy. (Bordello Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/raywylie.com\" target=\"_blank\">raywylie.com<\/a>) <strong>Sheldon Birnie<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve never heard Hubbard\u2019s particular brand of \u201cdeep-groove-in-the-blood-masterless-samurai-folk-poet-blues,\u201d then it\u2019s about time you did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[118,213,807],"class_list":["post-3917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-blues","tag-country","tag-rock-n-roll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}