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August 6, 2008 - Ray Wylie Hubbard's "Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mothers" was a hit for Jerry Jeff Walker in 1973. The success of the song facilitated Hubbard's lifestyle of drug and alcohol abuse, but with advice and encouragement from Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hubbard eventually cleaned up his act and hit his creative stride, and in 1992 began releasing albums regularly.

Blending humor with philosophical, introspective lyrics, Hubbard's album Snake Farm packs a gut-busting punch with its deep, swampy electric grooves. The songs spin stories of humility, persistence and religious curiosity. Making his eighth appearance on Mountain Stage, Hubbard performs solo and acoustic at Smokey's on the Gorge, a restaurant overlooking West Virginia's New River Gorge.