Friday Music

This artist hails from Oklahoma , grew-up and came of age in southwest Dallas and spent his summers in Red River, New Mexico playing folk music in hootenannies with a trio called Three Faces West. It was during this time that this song was composed.

As the story goes Ray Wylie Hubbard’s career received an early career boost when fellow Texan Jerry Jeff Walker covered Hubbard's Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother on his live album Viva Terlingua.

According to Hubbard, the tale Walker told in his famous live performance from Luckenbach is a true one from a time before Willie Nelson taught rednecks and hippies how to get along.

The story begins with Hubbard making a beer run in Red River, New Mexico at the local redneck joint D-Bar-D.

I walked in and there were thirty or forty people drinking, including one old woman. The jukebox stopped and they all turned and looked at me.

While Hubbard waited for the bartender to fetch a case of beer, the old woman and her son confronted Hubbard about his long hair.

You want me to beat him up?, the son asked.

Hubbard grabbed his case of beer and ran from the scene. In the parking lot, he spotted the pickup truck with a gun rack and a novelty bumper sticker that made it into the song.

Enjoy…..