The title track and video for Michael Ray‘s forthcoming Dive Bars & Broken Hearts album is out now, and what a song it is. The Florida native is fully embracing his country roots with the song, something he vowed to do with all the songs on the project. “I really wanted to pull the reality and the music together,”…
More music is on its way from Michael Ray. The Florida native will release the title track of his forthcoming EP, Dive Bars & Broken Hearts, on June 9, two weeks before the June 23 release date of his new project. “When you were raised on ‘80s and ‘90s country, and even older stuff, some things just are,” Ray…
Michael Ray just dropped another song and video from his new album. The Florida native released “Workin’ On It,” the second release from his forthcoming Dive Bars & Broken Hearts album, out on June 23. The video for “Workin’ On It” follows the storyline of “Get Her Back,” Ray’s first release from the project. But while “Get Her Back”…
Michael Ray has a new song and video out. The Florida native just released “Get Her Back,” the debut single from his forthcoming Dive Bars & Broken Hearts EP, dropping the telling video as well. The song says in part, “Now I just want to get her back / For everything that she did behind closed doors / All…
Michael Ray, Craig Morgan and Darryl Worley are helping pay tribute to their friend, Jeff Carson, who passed away last year. The singer became a police officer in 2009, but had been making a return to music. At the time of Carson’s sudden passing, he was working on a new album, recording some of his biggest hits, including “The…
Michael Ray‘s “Holy Water” video is out! The song, from Ray’s Higher Education EP, follows his recent multi-week, No. 1 hit, “Whiskey and Rain,” Written by Ashley Gorley, Hunter Phelps, Ben Johnson and Michael Hardy, Ray had an idea for the music video from the first time he heard it — a vision that, fortunately, came to life even…
Michael Ray‘s Higher Education EP is out! The seven-track record is, in many ways, what Ray has always wanted to create, but never was able to, for a myriad of reasons, until now. “It’s what I’ve had in my mind for a long time,” Ray tells Everything Nash. “It’s truly what I was trying to get out for years….
For aspiring songwriters, finding a way to turn an idea — even a good one — into a successful song is a challenging task. Thanks to seasoned music industry veteran Michael Blanton, the process can now be a bit easier. Michael co-launched Songwriting University with Gary Glover, founder of Nashville Arts and Entertainment magazine, along with songwriters Joe Beck…
Canaan Smith is embracing his love of traditional country music with his new single, “Colder Than You.” The song, which he co-wrote with Corey Crowder and Jared Mullins, was co-produced by Canaan, along with Florida Georgia Line‘s Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard, and is a return to the traditional sounds of country music, which was an intentional decision by…
When Craig Campbell realized he would need to make a video for his current single, “All My Friends Drink Beer,” during the coronavirus pandemic, he knew exactly what he needed to do. The Georgia native called on several of his famous friends, including Michael Ray, Granger Smith, Randy Houser, Adam Sanders, Canaan Smith and more, to join him, virtually,…
