Tickets are $55 and are available at Brown Paper Tickets or the KZFR office in downtown Chico, CA
Ray will perform as a three-piece for this show at Redding's Old City Hall at 1313 Market Street, Redding, CA.
From his humble beginnings as an Oklahoma folkie in the 60s to his wild ride through the 70s progressive country movement, and onward through the honky-tonk fog of the 80s to his sobriety-empowered comeback as a songwriters songwriter in the 90s, Ray Wylie Hubbard, was already a bonafide legend by the time he really found his groove right at the turn of the century. Thats when he finally felt confident enough in his guitar playing to dive headlong into his own
inimitable take on the blues, a form hed admired but steered clear of for decades, thinking its mysteries were beyond his grasp as a basic chord strummer.
"As I look back, I've had some amazing cool things happen, but I still feel like I'm moving forward, he says. I still enjoy it, and I think there's still plateaus to reach. I don't know what they're going to be, because I haven't really sat around thinking about it; when I wrote Mother Blues for the last record, I wasn't thinking, Ill put this album out and try to get on Letterman he just heard the song on Sirius Radio and called up and asked for us. So who knows what will happen with this record? All I know is I feel very fortunate right now in that I'm playing gigs that are really fun to do. And as long as I can keep writing and performing new songs, I think I could keep doing this for awhile. I saw some show once where Pinetop Perkins was playing at 90 years old, and Judy said, You've got another 20 years in you!"
This is an intimate, sit-down show. Show will sell out at 125 tickets sold. This is a benefit for 90.1 KZFR Chico.
