{"id":14583,"date":"2013-01-10T13:14:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T21:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=14583"},"modified":"2013-01-10T17:04:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T01:04:25","slug":"keep-your-gratitude-higher-than-your-expectations-watch-ray-wylie-hubbard-sing-mother-blues-on-letterman-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-01\/keep-your-gratitude-higher-than-your-expectations-watch-ray-wylie-hubbard-sing-mother-blues-on-letterman-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Gratitude Higher Than Your Expectations:  Watch Ray Wylie Hubbard Sing &#8220;Mother Blues&#8221; on Letterman Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musical grifter and common-man poet, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raywylie.com\/\">Ray Wylie Hubbard<\/a>,<\/strong> showed up on the <strong>Letterman Show<\/strong> and wove his gritty-poet magic last night.\u00a0 With his <strong>son Lucas<\/strong> on Les Paul, Oklahoman <strong>Hubbard<\/strong> (heir-apparent to the &#8220;Willie&#8221; look-and-feel) and band regaled with <em><strong>Mother Blues<\/strong><\/em> off of his critically-acclaimed album<strong> The Grifter&#8217;s Hymnal<\/strong>.\u00a0 The true-story tale of <em><strong>Mother Blues<\/strong><\/em> and the groove of the band captivated all, and especially <strong>Letterman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Mother Blues<\/strong><\/em> is a &#8220;mostly factual&#8221; account of Hubbard&#8217;s days paying his dues in a Dallas nightclub filled with &#8220;dealers, gamblers, strippers, young white hipsters and grizzled black blues legends.&#8221;\u00a0 Lucas gets a mention in the song, along with his mother and Hubbard\u2019s wife\/manager, <strong>Judy<\/strong>.\u00a0 Hubbard has said this about the song and club:\u00a0 &#8220;I saw <strong>Lightnin\u2019 Hopkins<\/strong> there, and <strong>Freddie King<\/strong> would show up, and we\u2019d play poker upstairs. I\u2019ve got a picture of me playing poker with Freddie King when I was 22. He played a game called \u2018Lucy Duecey,\u2019 which was like Seven Stud only whenever a two would come up the next card would be wild. It was really called \u2018Freddie King Wins Every Time\u2019 because everybody was drinking and nobody could figure it out! There\u2019s a little fiction in that song, but not a lot. All the important parts are pretty much true.\u00a0 I heard [my wife Judy] say one time that the days she keeps her gratitude higher than her expectations, she has really good days. I filed that away in my head, and it came back to me when we were playing this song live one time, before I really had an ending for it. I told the crowd, \u2018I\u2019m really grateful to you all for showing up, and I\u2019m grateful for being here with Rick and my kid \u2026 the days I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations are really good days.\u2019 And it seemed like the right way to end the song.&#8221;\u00a0 We couldn&#8217;t agree more.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r92RkIKm6Wc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musical grifter and common-man poet, Ray Wylie Hubbard, showed up on the Letterman Show and wove his gritty-poet magic last night.\u00a0 With his son Lucas on Les Paul, Oklahoman Hubbard (heir-apparent to the &#8220;Willie&#8221; look-and-feel) and band regaled with Mother Blues off of his critically-acclaimed album The Grifter&#8217;s Hymnal.\u00a0 The true-story tale of Mother Blues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}