Name: Swagger by The Big Gun Show
Duration: 3 min 25 s
Description: THE DOOR is the new album released by The Big Gun Show in 2017 and was produced by AJ Vallejo

Packing 10 brand new songs into just under 34 minutes, The Ruffian’s Misfortune is the tightest and most focused record of Hubbard’s career; it will also be his first record to be pressed on vinyl in more than 30 years. But its grooves cut just as deep in digital form, every track rumbling like muddy water over a bed of lethal rocks and gnarled roots. The terrain ain’t exactly pretty, but every record Hubbard’s fished, fought, and dragged from those waters — including such fan and critic favorites as 2002’s aptly-titled Growl, 2006’s Snake Farm, and 2010’s A. Enlightenment, B. Endarkenment (Hint: There is no C) — has only strengthened his resolve to follow his gypsy muse closer and closer to that dark river’s source. Hubbard hints that he may someday find his way back to less rocky ground, admitting that he keeps a 12-string on hand “thinking I might go back to more Gordon Lightfoot type stuff … every once in a while the old folkie guy will rear his ugly head” … but The Ruffian’s Misfortune finds him still a long way from that. 

“I really liked The Grifter’s Hymnal, and I think The Ruffian’s Misfortune is still kind of a part of that,” he offers, noting that he likes the way both titles would look just as fitting on a dusty old book jacket — or perhaps at the start of a silent movie — as they do on an album cover. But the similarities don’t end there. “This record is pretty much where I am as far as trying to make records that work on a couple of different levels, by laying down a groove with cool guitar tones and vicious nasty licks with lyrics that have a little depth and weight and even a little humor thrown in, too, as life is pretty much like that.” 


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THE DOOR is the new album released by The Big Gun Show in 2017 and was produced by AJ Vallejo

The Door  

Swagger

The Grifter's Hymnal, 2012.  Bordello Records:  

All songs written by Ray Wylie Hubbard 
Except:  Moss & Flowers: Ray Wylie Hubbard & Charlie Shafter 
Train Yard Ray Wylie Hubbard & Liz Foster
Henhouse: Ray Wylie Hubbard & Matt King
Coochy Coochy: Richard Starkey

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Swagger

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