I was up north of Calistoga this past weekend water skiing and I say Sunday Morning on CBS. I think the last time I watched this program was about 15 years ago. Anyway, they have a music editor on the show and he made some really pompous comments about music, but one of the artists he did profile was Ray Lamontagne. I first listened to Ray LaMontagne a few months ago when KFOG here in San Francisco profiled him and had him in the studio to do a live session. Well, I picked up his album, Trouble, immediately and even found the live KFOG recordings on iTunes and picked those up too. The man is really good. The story goes, that Ray went away to a small shack in the woods for 5 years and when he came back, he had written all of these songs. Well, after seeing him on Sunday Morning, you believe the story. He kinda looks like the Unibomber. But, seriously, go and get his album. It doesn’t really matter what kind of music you listen to, I can guarantee that you will like his stuff.
More about Ray LaMontagne:
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I hadn’t heard the bit about him living in a shack; interesting and plausibly true. I discovered Ray last year and have been utterly mesmerized by his voice and lyrics since then. He just has this was of phrasing something just so … it glints against the window and bounces back into your soul and sticks there.