Collin Raye previously revealed that his upcoming album, Scars, would include a duet with Miranda Lambert, on the title track. The singer, whose brother Scotty Wray is a longtime member of Miranda’s band, shares how the duet happened, praising Miranda for her magic touch on the song.
“She’d been threatening to do it for a while,” Collin revealed on The Bobby Bones Show. “We’ve known each other a really, really long time. In her early, early days, I’d do things where I’d show up and play on the bill that she was on and whatnot, when she was just getting started. which she appreciated … I guess this was her little favor to me and to Scotty to get to do this. And of course, she killed it.
“She’s a great singer in the studio,” he continued. “Scotty was hoping she’d cut [the song], and she goes, ‘Well, I’m thinking about it, I’m thinking about it, I’m thinking about it.’ And so I said, ‘Well, heck, if she’s not going to do it, then I’m cutting it.’ And then to bring her in on it, obviously she knew the song so well, I bet she wasn’t in the studio 15 minutes and just killed it. It really kind of anointed this record, having her on there.”
Scars will be released on Audium Nashville. The 60-year-old has released more than a dozen records already, but hints Scars might be his best work.
“I think it’s the best album I’ve ever done,” Collin told Everything Nash. “I know people always say that, but I truly mean it. I wrote or co-wrote, or my brother wrote or co-wrote every song on the album. It’s kind of a full-circle thing, because he and I started this whole music thing together when we were kids. And to get back around to working with him again, like that, it’s made it a very personal record.
“There’s songs on there that I think people are just really going to love, really personal things,” he continued. “It’s kind of aimed more at the Americana market, which to me, when I heard they wanted me to do an Americana record, my first thought was, ‘OK, well that kind of means no rules, right? A record of what you want to say, as opposed to the days when you had to make a record groomed room totally for radio.”
A release date for Scars has yet to be announced. Updates will be posted on his website as available.
