Renowned outlaw country musician Ray Wylie Hubbard will celebrate the release of his latest album, “Tell the Devil I’m Getting There as Fast as I Can,” with a two-night concert event at 8 p.m. the Treehouse Café Friday, Aug. 4 and Saturday, Aug. 5.

Tickets, $26 for general seating and $40 for a table, are on sale. Visit www.treehousebainbridge.com to order.

Hubbard started his journey as a folk singer in his native Oklahoma before falling in with the Texas outlaw country scene of the 1970s. There, he wrote his classic hit “Up Against the Wall (Redneck Mother),” which Jerry Jeff Walker recorded.

Hubbard gigged constantly and recorded sporadically throughout the rest of the ’70s and ’80s, but it wasn’t until he stumbled out of his “honky-tonk fog” and into sobriety that his career as a songwriter’s songwriter began in earnest.

He was already a bona fide legend by the time he really found his groove at the turn of the century. That’s when he finally felt confident enough in his guitar playing to dive headlong into his own inimitable take on the blues, a form he’d admired but steered clear of for decades.

“I used to go see Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb and Freddie King, all those cats, but I never could play like them,” he said. “Then I started learning open tuning, and then slide, and it was just this incredible freedom that gave all these songs a door to come through that wasn’t there before.”

After riding a decade-long career resurgence into the national spotlight with 2012’s acclaimed “The Grifter’s Hymnal” and his first ever appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman (“I didn’t want to peak too soon,” quipped Hubbard, 68), the iconoclastic Texas songwriter returned to continue his hot streak with “The Ruffian’s Misfortune” — his 16th album.

His latest, “Tell the Devil I’m Gettin’ There as Fast as I Can” (from Bordello Records), will be released on Friday, Aug. 18.