Michael Ray might never have started working with Musicians On Call, a non-profit that brings music to patients in hospitals and other facilities, if not for one tragic event. It was when he was playing music for a patient in Las Vegas, who was recovering from injuries he sustained in the Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting, when…
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,…
Michael Ray just released his Higher Education EP, with seven songs that felt deeply personal to him. The title track of the record was written by Tim Montana, who joins him on the track, along Derek George, Jeremy Bussey, Monty Criswell and Frank Rogers. As soon as Ray heard the song, he knew he wanted to record it, ultimately…
Michael Ray and Dustin Lynch are just two of the artists, along with Lainey Wilson, who will be joining Tracy Lawrence for his upcoming benefit concert, as part of his 16th annual Mission: Possible Turkey Fry. Proceeds from the event, which began in 2006, go to the Nashville Rescue Mission. Lawrence set a new fundraising record last year, with…
Michael Ray penned two of the seven songs on his latest Higher Education EP, both “Picture” and “Didn’t Know I Was Country.” But if there was another song he had written from the record, he wishes it was “Just the Way I Am.” That song was written by HARDY, Ben West and Josh Miller, but is as true to…
Michael Ray wrote two of the seven songs on his latest Higher Education EP, both “Picture” and “Didn’t Know I Was Country.” The latter, which Ray wrote with Taylor Phillips and Ashley Gorley, is a telling look into Ray’s own life — a look he initially wasn’t sure he was ready to share with his fans. “It was actually…
Michael Ray is unafraid — and unashamed. The 33-year-old went through his own struggles over the past 18 months, with some of them splashed across the headlines for all of the world to see. It would be enough to make anyone retreat from the spotlight and lick their own proverbial wounds for a while. Instead, Ray is celebrating who…
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….
Michael Ray launched his Just the Way I Am Tour last month, after more than a year of being off the road, because of the pandemic. When Ray planned his tour, coronavirus numbers were low, and artists were ready to get back on the road. Since then, numbers have been increasing once again, all over the country, prompting…
