Ray Wylie Hubbard.
The Live Oak Coffeehouse.
What Else Do You Need to Know?


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information ?
Jeff Dorsch, Concert Publicity: 925-7874
Concert Line: 219-9008
Coffeehouse Web Site: www.liveoakuu.org/coffee


JUNE 2005 (Austin, Texas) ? The Live Oak Coffeehouse proudly presents
legendary Texas singer-songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard in a concert to
benefit the SIMS Foundation. The show is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on
Friday, June 17, at the Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Church in
Northwest Austin/Cedar Park.

Admission is $15 or a season pass at the door. Gourmet coffee and
pastries are included in the price of admission.

The Live Oak Coffeehouse has been smoke-free from its inception in
1998, before it was cool or legally mandatory!

The coffeehouse, a community outreach program for the Live Oak UU
Church, also is alcohol-free, putting the emphasis on the music and the
musicians. Three-quarters of the gate goes to the performers, and
one-quarter to the selected charity. Since the coffeehouse is an
all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization, all of the money from
admissions paid at the door and season passes goes to the performers
and the charity.

The SIMS Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides access
to low-cost mental health services for Austin musicians and their
immediate families. SIMS is dedicated entirely to musicians'
assistance. Named in loving memory of Sims Ellison (1967-1995), the
SIMS Foundation was founded to prevent suicides in the Austin music
community. For more details, visit the foundation?s Web site at
http://simsfoundation.org/home.

Famous for the ?cosmic cowboy? anthem he wrote in the 1970s, ?Redneck
Mother,? Ray Wylie Hubbard has enjoyed a tremendously successful second
act in recent years with songs like ?Conversation With the Devil,?
?Screw You, We?re From Texas,? and his collaboration with Slaid
Cleaves, ?Wishbones.? Here in the new millennium, Hubbard now finds
himself ?one of the leading lights among Texas singer-songwriters,? as
The Associated Press declares. But never one to collect laurels, he
sees his career in far simpler terms. ?The one thing I've always been
able to do is go out there with my guitar and pay at least some of my
bills,? Hubbard demurs. Yet that focus on the fundamentals continues to
fuel his quest to make the most of his talents. Of his most recent
album, released early this year, Margaret Moser of the Austin Chronicle
wrote, ?You know it's gonna be another good year for Austin music when
one of the first albums out of the chute is Ray Wylie Hubbard's finely
crafted and well-conceived ?Delirium Tremolos??If there was ever any
doubt left about Ray Wylie Hubbard's place in the highest ranks of
(Texan) songwriters, it's been banished by this ultimate tribute.?

Doors open at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 17, at the Live Oak Unitarian
Universalist Church, located at 3315 El Salido Parkway, Cedar Park. For
driving directions, visit the church?s Web site at www.liveoakuu.org or
call 219-9008.


THE LIVE OAK COFFEEHOUSE ? GREAT MUSIC FOR GOOD CAUSES.
NOW IN OUR EIGHTH YEAR.