THREE FACES WEST S/T Ray Wylie Hubbard SIGNED BY RAY

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At Adamson High School, Hubbard moved among remarkably talented classmates, including Michael Martin Murphey  (a cheerleader at school assemblies) and B.W. Stevenson. The clean-cut folk music of Peter, Paul & Mary; the Chad Mitchell  Trio; and the Highwaymen ruled the day, inspiring him to get his first guitar. Learning genre standards like "Hang Down  Your Head, Tom Dooley," he met like-minded folkies named Rick Fowler and Wayne Kidd. Playing covers from bands such as  the Kingston Trio took on a different aspect when Bob Dylan came on the folk scene. "I noticed songwriting and songwriters  like Woody Guthrie," Hubbard recalls. "The floodgates just opened." A notice on the high school bulletin board lured Hubbard and his two friends into playing a summer resort. Dressed in matching striped shirts, the three took their guitars and hopped  a Greyhound bus for New Mexico – a 26-hour ride. That's when Hubbard got his first dose of music business reality: The job wasn't all in the playing. Our job also entailed wrapping potatoes in tinfoil, sweeping, cleaning up, and washing dishes at  night, Hubbard chuckles. "We were the hired help, but it was a great experience. We slept under the stairs of a cinder-block house." College called that fall, but the next summer Hubbard and Fowler packed up their instruments and took off in a Ford  to sing for their supper in Red River and Colorado. "We're the Texas Twosome," they'd announce. "Can we play for a hamburger  and a place to stay tonight?" Even in its infancy,  Austin's outlaw country scene was fractured. "There's too much cosmic and not enough cowboy" opined  a long-forgotten local 45. Doug Sahm, Rusty Wier, Alvin Crow, and Freda & the Firedogs already claimed the state capital as  home. Other acts immigrated here as fast as they could. If you step back and look at it, that whole scene really was progressive,  Hubbard reflects. "Willie Nelson moved here and brought Mickey Raphael, a blues harmonica player. Jerry Jeff [Walker] was  a folk singer, and he brought in John Inmon, a rock & roll guitar player. Michael Murphey was a folk singer, who added Herb  Steiner on steel guitar. There were also the more underground guys like Blaze Foley, Townes Van Zandt, and Guy Clark. I was with Three Faces West, and we added drums and electric bass to our folk thing. It may have been an illusion, but I thought of  us as a folk-rock band. 'Redneck Mother' was a joke to play every now and then. Then Jerry Jeff cut it............. From an interview with Hubbard in the Austin Chronicle June 23rd 2006 Side One Side Two High Flyin' Bird Light My Fire West Texas Highway Chain Around The Flowers Mr. Bojangles Cloudy There Is A Time The Seasons Change What Now My Love He's The One Little Old Lady I'm Goin' Home Lable ~~~ None Cat # ~~~ 1000 Jacket ~~~ VG  There is a 6" seam split at the top & a 8" seam split at the bottom. LP ~~~ VG+  A few scuffs & marks but nothing to interfere with the sound baring the odd click. Country ~~~ US Please bid with confidence as i will guarantee a full refund if you think it is too bad. It really does play very well. I will even start the bidding at 19.99 to encourage bidding on this LP  -  Hey, Ray even signed it on the back! All LP's will be posted out using proper mailers with stiffeners. Records will be taken out of jackets before posting.                                                         Shipping Costs                                                For the UK :  £2.50                       For Europe :  £3.50          For the Rest of the World : £6.00        Double albums - UK : £3.00                      Double albums - Europe : £5.00                            Double albums - RoW : £9.00                                                     Items containing 3 discs or more will be calculated at ACTUAL weight and charged accordingly.       All shipping for multiple wins will be charged at actual weight. Please wait for an Invoice.                             I have been buying on eBay now for many years and have over a thousand positive feedbacks. There is a reason why i have opened  a new account with eBay to sell rather than use my existing account. I have in the last year or so returned to my Christian belief.  I want to follow what is scriptual in disposing of what, quite honestly, has been a bit of a millstone around my neck. One day i  looked around at all the many thousand items that filled two rooms and came to a dawning realisation that i had no idea what  90% of all this stuff was. I mean, i could go and buy something, play it once, log it, and that was the last i ever saw of it. So, this has  handed me a golden opportunity to turn around this situation into something positive. I usually find something to say about what  i am selling along with a track listing for albums. I hope that my passion and love for these items shines through occasionally  amongst my rambling. So why would i want to just give them away. Simple, my love for Jesus as my redeemer is even greater.  Matthew chapter 19 verses 16-21 gives my explanation for giving the lot to the Haiti Hospital Appeal. So keep watching as there  are loads of serious stuff to come (Unreleased Gram Parsons acetate, a couple of hundred Westwood one type radio shows,  unreleased Townes Van Zandt acetate and hundreds more of similar ilk).