{"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 “Mother Blues” on Letterman Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Musical grifter and common-man poet, Ray Wylie Hubbard<\/a>,<\/strong> showed up on the Letterman Show<\/strong> and wove his gritty-poet magic last night.\u00a0 With his son Lucas<\/strong> on Les Paul, Oklahoman Hubbard<\/strong> (heir-apparent to the “Willie” look-and-feel) and band regaled with Mother Blues<\/strong><\/em> off of his critically-acclaimed album The Grifter’s Hymnal<\/strong>.\u00a0 The true-story tale of Mother Blues<\/strong><\/em> and the groove of the band captivated all, and especially Letterman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Mother Blues<\/strong><\/em> is a “mostly factual” account of Hubbard’s days paying his dues in a Dallas nightclub filled with “dealers, gamblers, strippers, young white hipsters and grizzled black blues legends.”\u00a0 Lucas gets a mention in the song, along with his mother and Hubbard\u2019s wife\/manager, Judy<\/strong>.\u00a0 Hubbard has said this about the song and club:\u00a0 “I saw Lightnin\u2019 Hopkins<\/strong> there, and 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.”\u00a0 We couldn’t agree more.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r92RkIKm6Wc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 “Willie” look-and-feel) and band regaled with Mother Blues off of his critically-acclaimed album The Grifter’s Hymnal.\u00a0 The true-story tale of Mother Blues […]<\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t