Ray LaMontagne
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Biography
With a voice that recalls a huskier, sandpapery version of Van Morrison and Tim Buckley, Ray LaMontagne joins such artists as Iron & Wine in creating folk songs that are alternately lush and intimately earthy. The songwriter was born in Nashua, New Hampshire in 1973; his parents split up shortly after his birth, and his mother began a pattern of moving her six children to any locale that could offer her employment and housing. As a result, Ray LaMontagne grew up as the perennial new kid in school (when and if he went to school at all). He did graduate high school, however, and found himself working in a shoe factory in Maine when he heard Stephen Stills' "Tree Top Flyer" on the radio. The song amounted to an epiphany for Ray LaMontagne, who made up his mind on the spot to become a singer and musician.
Read More...By the summer of 1999, Ray LaMontagne had put together a ten-song demo tape that soon found its way into the hands of Jamie Ceretta at Chrysalis Music Publishing. The publishing house signed the young songwriter and teamed him with producer Ethan Johns, resulting in Ray LaMontagne's debut album, Bridge Over Troubled Water. The record was picked up by RCA Records and released in the fall of 2004, impressing critics with such songs as the title tune, "Trouble," and the cinematic style of pieces like "Narrow Escape." A follow-up album for the RCA label, Till The Sun Turns Black, appeared in 2006 and widened Ray LaMontagne's palette by incorporating horns and strings. Gossip In The Grain followed in 2008. In 2012, Ray LaMontagne returned with his fourth studio album, God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise. His first album without producer Ethan Johns, Ray LaMontagne helmed the session at his home studio. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi
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Trouble - (3:53) - 98,900 playsLyricsTrouble
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Trouble been doggin' my soul
Since the day I was born
Worry
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You Are The Best Thing - (3:51) - 77,094 playsLyricsBaby, it's been a long day, baby
Things ain't going my way
You know I need you here
Here by my side
All of the time
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Hold You In My Arms - (5:05) - 62,497 playsLyricsWhen you came to me with your bad dreams and your fears
It was easy to see that you'd been crying
Seems like everywhere you turn, catastrophe it reigns
But who really profits from the dying
I could hold you in my arms
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Let It Be Me - (4:39) - 65,566 playsLyricsThere may come a time
A time in everyone’s life
Where nothing seems to go your way
Where nothing seems to turn out right
There may come a time
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Shelter - (4:35) - 46,309 playsLyricsI guess you don't need it
I guess you don't want me to repeat it
But everything I have to give, I'll give to you
It's not like we planned it
You tried to stay, but you could not stand it
- All The Wild Horses - (3:15) - 37,455 plays
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- Jolene - (4:09) - 43,603 plays
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- I Still Care For You - (4:06) - 35,038 plays
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- Sarah - (4:26) - 31,141 plays
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