Choctaw Bingo -Ray Wylie Hubbard

[normanplombe]

does anyone know if there's a relationship between this song and zevon's seminole bingo...his (zevon's) biography indicates that his was purely inspired and original...

[thamuddler]

Hubbard sucks. McMurtry is the real deal

[The79woody]

@thamuddler

Thats the dumbest thing i've heard all day

[thamuddler]

@The79woody why would he cover a song 2 years after it came out?

[cjlandry]

Buck Owens is relevant? Cool.

What's with the Bakersfield tag?

[birdiejoehoaks]

yeah, the guitar i was playing belongs to monty byrom who got it from Buck

it was filmed in bakersfield, CA

[mcshawnboy]

I like them both, McMurtrty & Hubbard, but the latter sounds as if he packaged it for SoundScan's Nashville demographic. I love getting into Texas hell, it's the only place I hear Bob Wills, Hank Sr. etc. on broadcast radio in HEAVY ROTATION! I'm a Yankee, but if Texas can get the secessionists organized TEA Parties will be old news and Kinky Friedman could be president! I saw McMurtry & The Heartless Bastards at a bar in Baltimore,MD they rocked the room like they were meth tweakers!

[mikemoair]

i didnt come in here for a grammer leason, now where are my titties and beer!!!

[mikemoair]

this version is lame it sucks, sounds like if the fucking eagles would do it, the eagles a true suck ass band!!!

[birdiejoehoaks]

you are adorable!

[1998disco72]

I agree.

[cseeger1]

Find out what? That McMurtry is a better songwriter than Hubbard? Obviously you don't know that McMurtry is a Texan too -- born in Fort Worth and currently living in Austin. So am I. You sound like a Yankee. So, in Hubbard's own words, "Screw you, we're from Texas".

[cerealspiller]

No need for a pissing match. They are both fine representatives of the bad-ass country/rock song writer's association.

[cseeger1]

McMurtry's original version is far better. Ray is decent songwriter, but he can't hold a candle McMurtry -- few can.

[blitzmut]

@cseeger1

FINALLY another sane person. I'm at a loss as to why so many people on here say they like Hubbard's version of McMurtry's song better. To me, Hubbard's version of Choctaw is the texas/outlaw country equivalent to playing a Joe Satriani song using only power chords. 98% of the actual music is simply not there.

Not to say I don't appreciate the cover, it's good - but it's nowhere close to the brilliance of the original.

[maccounty]

Outstanding song writer. I want to drank with him some evenin`.

[murphyssaloon]

It is an outstanding song, and Ray makes it his own - but it was written by James McMurtry.

The story goes that when Ray decided to cover Choctaw Bingo, he called McMurtry and told him he was gonna record it the way it was "supposed to sound."

[louquarm]

Choctaw Bingo is the Stairway to Heaven for real people...or at least,for me.

[tompetty832002]

i love both songs, but i don't see your point here. the songs are in no way similar...

[ethan351]

my nekk be gittin red

[hellbillyoutlaw]

killer song! Ray does it best, james does it good too. hell yeah!

[birdiejoehoaks]

I worship them both as gods

[SirWinstonChurchill]

I never hear either of them on the radio EXCEPT on KPIG 107(oink)5 FM in Freedom, Ca.

You can get the pig on the internet. Lots of great, eclectic rockabilly blues hippy rock.

[joeynichols420]

talkin bout home

[elvispdude]

After listining to this song several times it kind of grows on ya! I've seen southern and most of Kansas. Ah, the sunflower state.

[1998disco72]

They should call it the meth state. Just like Oklahoma.

[birdiejoehoaks]

hey, give california some credit too...

[1998disco72]

That is true. LOL

[kupotron9000]

We do love our meth here in Oklahoma, also pregnant teenagers..

[fatheadthedog]

please put a period between your senteces. thanks.

[astuc8]

Please capitalize the first word of a sentence.Thanks.

[blitzmut]

@astuc8

"Thanks." is not a sentence.

[tubevzn]

That's FUNNY!!!

[birdiejoehoaks]

im in Kern County, we have the third highest pregnancy rate in the country.

also in the top ten least educated, with the third worst air i believe.

we're worse than oklahoma.

[biggcarl1968]

you are hater if youdo not like this song

[johnnny5555]

3 kinds of sun in kansas, sunshine, sunflowers and suns of bitches

[1998disco72]

LOL!!

[1998disco72]

@johnnny5555 LOL!!!