Ray Wylie Hubbard Remembers Jerry Jeff Walker

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  • Ray Wylie Hubbard shares memories of Jerry Jeff Walker.
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  • @hotelbeezy
    @hotelbeezy 2 роки тому +37

    “You guys ain’t so tough! I’ve been beat up by bikers!” Favorite quote from Ray Wylie Hubbard

    • @MrKrwillis72
      @MrKrwillis72 Рік тому +4

      I been beat up worse than this by bikers is by far THEE best punch line I ever heard. The way Jerry Jeff busted a gut laughing makes me wish I could hear that entire story all over again for the first time!

    • @stevehulsey261
      @stevehulsey261 Рік тому

      ​@@MrKrwillis72y

    • @joannehack7588
      @joannehack7588 10 місяців тому +1

      You just tall. That’s just about all

  • @sartainja
    @sartainja 2 роки тому +15

    I could listen to him tell stories for three hours without going to the bathroom. 👍

  • @williamrowland8997
    @williamrowland8997 2 роки тому +28

    Ray is a true TX treasure---love these stories, thank you Otis

    • @lavonnacasey5724
      @lavonnacasey5724 Рік тому +1

      He was born in Oklahoma

    • @workingman7166
      @workingman7166 Рік тому

      @@lavonnacasey5724 we go same dentist is S Austin. nice guy. lives down the road off rr12 in Wimberley. he never claims Oklahoma. i think hes ashamed.

  • @kathleenbergeron1292
    @kathleenbergeron1292 7 місяців тому +5

    Ray is one of the best storytellers in Texas.

  • @P.W.Brandenburger
    @P.W.Brandenburger 3 місяці тому +1

    Ray Wylie Hubbard gave me a quick primer on Travis Picking while sitting in the green room (more of a closet, actually) at Poor David's Pub in Dallas, Texas. I don't remember if my band had played that night, or if I'd just wandered back there to meet him, but it's a moment that changed my playing and songwriting forever. He wouldn't know me if he saw me, but I sure remember him, and I'm so grateful for his warmth and kindness.

  • @jeffcampbell6898
    @jeffcampbell6898 2 роки тому +11

    When i was 16 years old back in the early 80's Jerry Jeff Walker sat beside me on a Plane from Atlant to Miami.

  • @tkreitler
    @tkreitler 2 роки тому +11

    I really wish I had a time machine. I'd go back to that early 70's scene around Austin and soak it in.

    • @roberthastings708
      @roberthastings708 2 роки тому +1

      I was there. I'm 67 now. I did a lot of sound work and sound checks etc. So I'm no star but I have stories about them. Jerry Jeff included. What a time.

    • @kirkgibson9146
      @kirkgibson9146 Рік тому +1

      I agree on a lot of levels. but if we were all back in Austin in 1986, not all of us could say that we were at Farm Aid 2! Manor Downs was at max capacity at 40,000! Nothing like 2 - 15 yr old kids carrying in 4 milk jugs full of beer! True story, i have the carton and pics for proof. Long Live RWH, Willie, Merle, Johnny, Kris, and to the 50 others that performed that day! i can always say i saw the greatful dead, john prine, Jessie Jackson, and Stevie Ray Vaughn in the same day! - Long live the 80's and the good times that were had! - LEG

    • @glennpayne6925
      @glennpayne6925 Рік тому +3

      I would go with you.
      Austin saved country music.
      Losing Jerry Jeff, Billy Joe, and now Jimmy Buffett. Makes me remember the few words I spent in Austin in the seventies. The greatest collection of musicians ever.
      I finally had to leave. Going ever night listening to music. Mixed with gallons of Jim Beam and the best weed.
      I barely made it home. But, I wouldn't change a damn thing.
      Ray is coming to Alabama.
      I'll be there.

  • @joannehack7588
    @joannehack7588 10 місяців тому +2

    AMEN

    • @joannehack7588
      @joannehack7588 10 місяців тому

      Oh my God!!! Jerry Jeff had a 1938 Gibson Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe!!!! I have a 1936 Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe in pristine condition sittin’ right next to me on the floor. Are you interested? I don’t play it anymore. Bought it at The Pickin’ Parior in Nashville in 1986

  • @lauriefoster1513
    @lauriefoster1513 2 роки тому +8

    I heard Ray Wylie tell this in person once!! 😂

  • @garytrew2766
    @garytrew2766 2 роки тому +14

    Love these stories, I used to watch Jerry Jeff on Austin City Limits. Of coarse Todd Sniders story of him is awesome. Thanks Otis, later on friend.

  • @StringsandWings
    @StringsandWings 2 роки тому +17

    These are gut busting funny. Please keep em coming!

  • @renegade.records
    @renegade.records Рік тому +1

    I missed this one when it came out a year ago… glad I stumbled across it today!! 👊🔥🤘

  • @stevewuertz3598
    @stevewuertz3598 2 роки тому +11

    I'm loving the RWH stories. I remember the Rubyiat and the tales of the clubs in Dallas-I was too young to visit them b/c I was in Jr High or High School but those venues advertised in the Dallas underground paper "Dallas Notes" that I used to peddle in Jr High for 25 cents. Years later during my Jr or St year in HS, the drinking law had just changed to 18 and the clubs were lax and they accepted my HS photo ID with a changed birthdate (helps to have friends on the yearbook staff. My first nightclub show was Lightin' Hopkins at Mother Blues on Lemmon Ave. RWH has a song about a gold 57 Les Paul called MOther Blues on THe Grifter's Hymnal LP

    • @2lucky1957
      @2lucky1957 2 роки тому +3

      Dallas had many great live music bars in the mid 70's, but none had the exceptional vibe of Mother Blues.

  • @paulthomasmiller1842
    @paulthomasmiller1842 2 роки тому +4

    UA-cam gold Otis.
    Thanks for sharing.

  • @lavonnacasey5724
    @lavonnacasey5724 Рік тому +2

    Thank Otis, I just love your history about those singer/songwriter down in Austin and Houston in the days✌️

  • @jimbertrand2499
    @jimbertrand2499 2 роки тому +8

    Great stories! Thanks for sharing Otis!

  • @bookaufman9643
    @bookaufman9643 2 роки тому +5

    I'm from Austin but about 10 years after all these guys. I was there in the mid 80s for a little while and then all through the '90s. Charlie Dunn was on Guadeloupe over around 25th Street. I believe that's correct I may have that wrong. It could have been on Congress. It's one of the two.

  • @otisgibbs
    @otisgibbs  2 роки тому +7

    Go buy Ray's book and tell him Otis sent ya!
    store.raywylie.com/

  • @johnrosier1686
    @johnrosier1686 Рік тому +1

    The stories that only RWH can tell. He isn’t just a songwriter but also a storyteller. He is hilarious even when he isn’t trying to be.

  • @eduardodelagarza4787
    @eduardodelagarza4787 Рік тому +2

    Mr Hubbard I hope you remember me, you introduced me to country, Semper Fi and Erin go Braugh

  • @davismillard3822
    @davismillard3822 2 роки тому +3

    I spent hours lifting the stylus off the record and putting it back playing my low end little Yamaha and learning every JJW song. It’s how I learned to play.

  • @DismasM
    @DismasM 2 роки тому +2

    Ray's true gen.

  • @gtr1952
    @gtr1952 2 роки тому +2

    RWH is such a treasure!! I could listen to that old cat for hours... in fact I think I have. LOL Peace... --gary

  • @jodyvance4114
    @jodyvance4114 Рік тому

    @RAYWILEYHUBBARD WE LOVE AND ADORE YOU!!!

  • @stephenhenion8304
    @stephenhenion8304 2 роки тому +3

    Saw Jerry Jeff at the Shaboo Inn...1976!! Small club..... .maybe 300 people...great show!! Oh yeah...Willimantic CT... near UCONN

    • @bmurt4286
      @bmurt4286 Рік тому +1

      Same tour, Johnson St College, VT. He was an interesting guy

  • @GMBogart
    @GMBogart 5 місяців тому

    Thanks for this clip.
    (Still miss that ol’ JJ - and for songs that might’ve been.)

  • @GRBAquatics
    @GRBAquatics 2 роки тому +1

    So Very Cool Stories. Thankyou.

  • @funkfan1751
    @funkfan1751 2 роки тому +2

    Cool insider interview. Love the music by both of RWH and OG.

  • @davidfulginiti5985
    @davidfulginiti5985 2 роки тому +1

    Otis thanks,-------------------love Jerry Jeff's -------------hard livin

  • @floydstowe
    @floydstowe 2 роки тому +1

    I love hearing these stories thank you

  • @AudioFileZ
    @AudioFileZ 9 місяців тому

    My family was in the footwear business. I remember those Acme roughouts. We could fit the whole family with those and they were big sellers because they were good and cheap. Love RWH & JJW!

  • @CCaraway
    @CCaraway 2 роки тому +4

    I can't remember who else told the story about throwing the hat and it landing on the statue but I have heard the same story somewhere else.

  • @julesotis13
    @julesotis13 2 роки тому +1

    viva nueva mexico !!!!! el don jules otis career en santa fe nueva mexico !

  • @shivamoon108
    @shivamoon108 2 роки тому +1

    Hi Otis! Love your stuff! I first discovered you (or so it seemed...) on your "cassette" interviews. That led me to all the rest.... I was thinkin' "where have I heard this guy before?" It finally came to me: I had a radio show for about 10 years, I'm here in wine country, so it was called "Rootstock & Vine: An exploration of the Roots of American Music" (the most powerful cultural force on the planet!)" so, anyway, one day it came to me, that I used to play your albums on my show! Here's a couple of tidbits for you, related to some of your recent interviews: 1. Bob ("Is it rollin' Bob?") Johnston was a friend of mine, and there's a story out there, I think it's from a tape, or an article,,, I don't think I heard it from Bob, but anyway, supposedly, when the FBI arrived at Willie's door, Bob happened to be there. They were going to confiscate Willie's masters, which he was in possession of, and Bob jumps up, and says "these aren't Willie's tapes! They belong to my employer, Columbia Records! And unless you want to be up to your ears in their lawyers, you best keep your hands off 'em!" The upshot was, Willie kept his masters! (which, BTW: were his, and had nothin' to do with Columbia. Just as, as far as I remember, Bob had already left Columbia at that time....! 2. I was livin' with Jerry Jeff at his place on Sullivan St, in the Village (actually I would come across, on a weekend pass from the Army base I was at in New Jersey, and I would crash on Jerry's floor...) So one time I notice he's got a new guitar. So he says he got a call from Guild, or he just went over there (they were in NY at the time..). He's in the CEO's office, and the guy asks him if he's the guy that wrote Mr Bo Jangles. Jerry says yup, and the guy says he can have any guitar in the factory. So Jerry notices a Rosewood F50 sittin' there, and he says; "How 'bout this one?" The guy says, well, we made that one specially for Donovan, but, what the hell, it's yours! So, either they made him another one later, or Donovan dodged a bullet!

  • @lonewizzard8456
    @lonewizzard8456 2 роки тому

    Amazing and hilarious

  • @julesotis13
    @julesotis13 2 роки тому +1

    hungarian gypsy named Andre! those are he kinds of details make me a lil jealous and that i love thanks broher otis - SJOCR

  • @johnglenn30csardas
    @johnglenn30csardas 2 роки тому

    Thanks.

  • @otisgibbs
    @otisgibbs  2 роки тому +2

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  • @vitorzaupa
    @vitorzaupa 2 роки тому +2

    all those perfects jerry jeff's songs on that album are kinda true. goddamnit.

  • @Ray-vy7dm
    @Ray-vy7dm 2 роки тому

    Great stuff

  • @Westwalker51
    @Westwalker51 2 роки тому +3

    What ever became of B.W. Stevenson? Thanks 🧙🏻‍♂️

  • @lakerat3
    @lakerat3 2 роки тому +5

    Jerry Jeff and Ray Wylie in the day..what a hoot of stories on the road of busted ass musicians just trying to get paid.

  • @JWayne-ej4jy
    @JWayne-ej4jy 8 місяців тому

    So very fine 🎉

  • @bobstuckrath1805
    @bobstuckrath1805 Рік тому +1

    Personally, I Wanna Go Home With The Armadillo! 🦡 👢 🇨🇱

  • @unclekrampus7103
    @unclekrampus7103 2 роки тому +3

    reprint this book!!!😀

  • @mdbostnmt1987
    @mdbostnmt1987 2 роки тому +4

    Good grief, he’s an institution. Love RWH.

  • @Jhparker1024
    @Jhparker1024 2 роки тому +4

    Jerry Jeff never played a guitar in tune