From the Vault

Feel Free to Download these and enjoy. However..... if while surfing the internet entertaining my insomnia some evening I should find these very same songs put on some compilation and being sold anonymously on ebay or in some far away country just know that I WILL hunt you down and I WILL find you..... and it won't be pretty.

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Mother H

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Approx. Year Recorded

Title

Written By

What I know about this song

1984

Runnin' on the Wild Side

Ray Wylie Hubbard

1974

Portales

Ray Wylie Hubbard

This is one of of the first songs Ray recorded and still one of my favorites. I found a punk rock version he recorded with the Cowboy Twinkies that I will eventually put up here...

1974

Portales-"Punk/Speed Metal" version

Ray Wylie Hubbard

So the band "The Cowboy Twinkies" had been in the studio (Pecan Street in Austin) since about 9:00am recording their record. B.W. Stevenson had stopped by earlier to make a guest appearance on the record and Michael Murphy (this was before he got his middle name) was going to stop by after his show that night and sing on Portales. Well it was about 1:00am and they were waiting for Murphy but had been playing all day and were fried...so they needed to do something to entertain themselves and clear their mind until Murphy showed up. So they broke into this version of Portales...Ray and the bass player were laying on the floor on thier backs playing guitar and Buffalo was standing on a chair and they were having a good ole' time and Murphy came in, took one look heard the song and according to the engineer ran out the door and left town. He thought they were recording some punk record and that was version they wanted him to sing on! Of course the reputation the Twinkies had back then wouldn't have made that possibility too far fetched. What they lacked in talent they made up for in attitude.

198?

Texas is a State of Mind

Ray Wylie Hubbard

1974

Freeway Church of Christ

Ray Wylie Hubbard and Bob Livingston

This is about that Church on the West side of I-35 between Austin & Dallas in Waco. I guess after you make that run a thousand times and see the same buildings you write songs about them.