Reel 2 Reel 4 Real (Preorder)

Ray Wylie Hubbard is still making stab-you-in-the-back-alley-with-a-shiv rock & roll at nearly 80 years old. His latest album, Reel 2 Reel 4 Real, is meant to be played loud. Real loud. It’s not just lean and mean but snarly and downright punchy; primer grey Texas garage rock in the proud tradition of the 13th Floor Elevators, Mouse and the Traps, and the True Believers. Over the course of his long career Hubbard has written boatloads of richly poetic, hold-their-own-in-any-serious-songwriter-circle stunners like “The Messenger,”“Ballad of the Crimson Kings,” “Dust of the Chase,” and “Stone Blind Horses.” But these songs are all unabashedly for the “Wanna Rock and Roll” set. Reel 2 Reel 4 Real track list Cassette Mix Tape El Diablo Esta Ganando A Murder of Crows” Look What the Cat Drug In Dog or Wolf Tip Your Hat to the Black Crow Gods Playing Poker Cobwebs She Plays ‘Crazy Mama The Night