Watch Ray Wylie Hubbard's performance of "Snake Farm" from his 'Austin City Limits' headlining debut.

Wednesday night was a long time coming for both Ray Wylie Hubbard and the Grand Ole Opry. The celebrated Texas troubadour made his debut on the legendary Nashville live-radio program with a sly ...

Although Ray Wylie Hubbard often draws from literary sources when writing songs these days, the title cut from new album Snake Farm is strictly observational. Snake farm, it just sounds nasty.

Ray Wylie Hubbard displays his new snake tattoo and gives a Burmese python a ride on his guitar in front of the Snake Farm near New Braunfels in this 2006 file photo.

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 ...

Snake Farm, 2006 Hubbard has written countless songs that tell tales of n'er-do-wells who inhabit the world that he often describes as devils, whether they're actually in the employ of Hades ...

So a friend passed him a copy of Hubbard's 2006 record, "Snake Farm," which prompted him to invite Hubbard to his home in Los Angeles and to his birthday concert in New York.

There’s one artist, however, who was particularly influential to the Chief throughout his career. That artist is none other than Ray Wylie Hubbard.

Time has come again for sardonic country bluesman Ray Wylie Hubbard. At 73, the original redneck mother — who in truth was a folkie during early his ’70s heyday — has major-label ...