Lightstream Backyard Concert Series
Lightstream is partnering with KLBJ and Loris Lowe’s Local Licks radio show for a new concert series called LOCAL LICKS LIVE at The Haute Spot. Legendary Texas artist Ray Wylie Hubbard will headline the February 2022 edition of the series.
Lightstream is a collective of fans, artists, and industry professionals that believe in the power of music to lift up entire communities. LOCAL LICKS LIVE is a new concert series that does exactly that. This series allows us to get back to why Lightstream is here: to support local artists, rock out, and do good. Lightstream strives to make the world a better place by supporting and sharing music, from national artists to our very own homegrown ones.
“Local Licks is Austin’s longest running radio show dedicated to spotlighting Austin artists. It’s been on the air since the 80’s. And we are so thrilled to be taking our goal of spotlighting local artists, LIVE to Haute Spot in Cedar Park. And even more thrilled that the phenomenal Ruthie Foster will help us kick off the new Local Licks Live series. Ruthie is Austin royalty, and we couldn’t be happier to have her as our first artist. Join us, and show your support of Austin music. Because we’re pretty sure you love it as much as we do.” - Loris Lowe
Designated Charitable Sponsors for this event are St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.
About Ray Wylie Hubbard:
Ray Wylie Hubbard is the secret handshake amongst those who know. Earthy, real, funky, unabashed, his records have been swapped and played on the road by everyone from Blackberry Smoke and Georgia Satellites to Black Stone Cherry. “Snake Farm” alone could be the red-blooded touring male’s reality-based point of connection.
That passion for the man who’s as much a renegade poet as a roadhouse saint brought together an eclectic mix of guests for Co-Starring, his first ever high-profile label release. Ringo Starr, Joe Walsh, the Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson, Ronnie Dunn, Don Was, Larkin Poe, Pam Tillis and The Cadillac Three were just a few who clamored to jam, sing and generally be in the studio with the wizened icon.
The Austin Music and Eric Church-inducted Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Famer was born in Soper, Oklahoma, went to high school with cosmic cowboy Michael Martin Murphey and spent his summers playing folk music in Red River, New Mexico. It all added to an iconoclastic, hell-bent for truths and textures in writing about the way outlaws live – and added to his outlier bona fides that he made 16 albums without ever signing to a major label.
That’s all about to change for the go-to songwriter for Lucinda Williams, Hayes Carll, Pat Green, Jerry Jeff Walker, Waylon Jennings, Slaid Cleaves and Willie Nelson. Whether it’s bluegrass/folk legend Peter Rowan on the tender “Hummingbird,” emerging Nashville renegade Ashley McBryde on the tough girl homage “Outlaw Blood,” SiriusXM femme fatales Paula Nelson and Elizabeth Cook on the randy “Drink ‘Til I See Double” or the trippy rocker Aaron Lee Tasjan on the elegiac “Rock Gods,” Co-Starring is a supple, musky affair.