Acclaimed singer/songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard conceptualized and produced Co-Starring, his new 10-track collection for Big Machine Records, and invited other iconic musicians and eclectic voices to join the party including 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" and the trippy rocker Aaron Lee Tasjan on the elegiac "Rock Gods." Hubbard establishes the tone of the gritty release with star-studded single "Bad Trick" featuring Ringo Starr, Don Was, Joe Walsh and Chris Robinson.

"I have believed in the rule that one should not sing their own praises, but with my new record on Big Machine Records, well I'm going to have to break that rule," Hubbard says. "Co-Starring has got grit, groove, tone and taste and is so righteously cool that small demons will drool, and little angels will want to line dance."

Earthy, real, funky, and unabashed, Hubbard's records have been swapped and played on the road by everyone from Blackberry Smoke and Georgia Satellites to Black Stone Cherry. The Austin Music and Eric Church-inducted Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Famer was born in Soper, OK, went to high school with cosmic cowboy Michael Martin Murphey and spent his summers playing folk music in Red River, NM. It all added to an iconoclastic, hell-bent for truths and textures in writing about the way outlaws live. That passion for the man who's as much a renegade poet as a roadhouse saint resulted in an array of genres and ages joining for his first high-profile label release.