Michael Ray‘s “Whiskey and Rain” is the gift that keeps on giving. The singer-songwriter is celebrating the multi-week No. 1 song becoming a platinum-selling hit, for sales in excess of one million units. The song, written by Jesse Frasure and Josh Thompson, is Ray’s first song to spend more than one week at the top of the charts….
Michael Ray is as eager as his fans, and maybe more, to return to CMA Fest, after a two-year break due to the pandemic. The Florida native has been a regular at the annual event for years, but his favorite memory is when he got to honor one of his own musical heroes. “One of my favorite CMA Fest…
Michael Ray wanted to make sure 2022 was his best, and healthiest, year yet, even if that meant doing some hard work on himself. The Florida native reveals that, just as he was celebrating his fourth No. 1 hit, with “Whiskey and Rain,” he was also checking himself into a facility to ensure that he was in the best…
Michael Ray‘s lyric video for “Holy Water” is out! Ray, who shot the official music video for “Holy Water” in his home state of Florida, also returned home for the lyric video as well. “Shot this one out at my family’s land in Florida,” Ray shares on social media. “Hope y’all dig it as much as I do.” Ray…
Michael Ray isn’t afraid to shed a few tears, especially when it’s for something that means so much to him. The Florida native shared an emotional, and deeply heartfelt, video on social media, after “Whiskey and Rain” became his fourth No. 1 hit. Now that Ray’s new single, “Holy Water,” is also rapidly climbing the charts, Ray is…
Carly Pearce is walking into tonight’s ACM Awards with four nominations. The 31-year-old is nominated for Female Artist of the Year, Album of the Year (for 29: Written in Stone) and both Video of the Year and Music Event of the Year, the latter two for her “Never Wanted to Be That Girl” collaboration with Ashley McBryde. “When…
The ACM Awards are supposed to honor artists who have worked hard and had success throughout the year, a benchmark of their career accomplishments. While the Academy of Country Music gets it right a lot, they have missed the mark more than once, which could explain how neither Lee Brice nor Blake Shelton were nominated this year. Keep reading…
The 2022 ACM Awards nominees are out, and while there were plenty of happy surprises, like Chris Young receiving seven nominations, or Walker Hayes receiving five, there were also a few artists that were inexplicably left off this year’s list. Keep reading to find out who should have been nominated, and why. 1. Dustin Lynch Not only was…
Michael Ray has made no secret of his love of traditional country music, which is clearly evident in Ray’s recent cover of Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried.” Ray performed the song as part of his weekly HonkyTonk Tuesday series. Ray embraces his love of traditional country music, like Haggard’s, in his latest Higher Education EP, out now. The record, which…
Michael Ray‘s “Higher Education” video is out! The video for the song, the title track of his latest EP, features Tim Montana, Lee Brice, ZZ Top‘s Billy F. Gibbons, and Kid Rock. Montana wrote “Higher Education” with Derek George, Jeremy Bussey, Monty Criswell and Frank Rogers. It was Ray who had the idea to make the song and video a collaboration,…
