Webb Wilder returns to the Mucky Duck, Houston for an Acoustic Evening With Album Release event!  Hillbilly Speedball is his first new album in five years.

Backed by a small army of musical friends old and new, Wilder’s 10 songs balance tempered restraint with raucous abandon. “I’d been in this sort of stasis, and David Grissom, one of my oldest friends and a brilliant guitarist, sent me a new song to check out called “Hillbilly Speedball.”

I liked it. It was in the same key as my biggest successes, and I asked him, ‘Hey, what if I do it?’ That’s how it started.” Other notable guests on the album are Vince Gill (who Wilder calls, “the world’s most down to Earth super- star”), iconic Wrecking Crew session man Richard Bennett, Fats Kaplin (ex-Jack White), and an extended family of heavyweights from across the music spectrum.

Hillbilly Speedball is the (lucky) 13th album in Wilder’s long and storied career. His nearly four decades in the public eye have included stints with major labels, MTV airplay, induction in the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame and being one of the first DJs hired by a then-upstart XM Satellite Radio.

He was Americana before it had a name, and is bonafide Roots Rock Royalty.

From gravel switchbacks to eight lanes of blacktop, Hillbilly Speedball cuts a roadmap through a landscape that goes from the very roots of Rock and Roll to Outlaw Country, straight-up Blues, bits of Brit, and all points in between. It’s Americana Rock and Roll in the purest sense, and a joyride worth taking again and again.