Who is ray lamontagne

On September 20, , LaMontagne announced that he was canceling a September 22 show at the Bass Concert Hall at the University of Texas at Austin, due to Texas's recently implemented campus carry law.

Ambassador William C. Bullitt, where he lives with his wife, Sarah Sousa, and their two children in the farmhouse built in Sousa is a published poet via Red Mountain Press and their sons are budding artists. He refers to himself as a "very private person" and rarely gives interviews.

Artist descriptions on Last. Feel free to contribute! All user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now. They told LaMontagne—who had produced the album himself—that it did not harbor even one single worth promoting, and instructed him to return to the studio to keep on trying.

But LaMontagne, however introspective and quiet though he may be, would not be tossed around so easily. To date, the album has sold , copies. When asked to comment on its success, RCA politely declined. The success of this album—and RCA's initial confusion over it—seems to highlight how much the music industry has changed over the last decade.

Gone are the days when the Big Four record labels could simply spoon-feed their audience whatever they deemed most "marketable. Raising Sand was one of Rounder's most commercially successful albums to date, selling over 1. The publishing house signed the young songwriter and teamed him with producer Ethan Johns , resulting in LaMontagne 's debut album, Trouble.

The record was picked up by RCA and released in September of , impressing critics with such songs as "Trouble" and the cinematic style of pieces like "Narrow Escape. Gossip in the Grain followed in , also with Johns in the producer's chair. LaMontagne 's biggest commercial success to that point, it debuted at number three on the U. His first one without producer Ethan Johns , the session was produced instead by LaMontagne at his home studio and billed his backing band, the Pariah Dogs bassist Jennifer Condos , guitarist Eric Heywood , and drummer Jay Bellerose.

It fared well critically and reached number one on Billboard's Top Rock Albums chart and, again, number three on the Billboard Fredericks ' version became a hit, charting well on major streaming platforms. Teasing a change of direction in a note to a group of fans, LaMontagne worked with My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James on his next outing, 's Ouroboros.

Designed for full-album play, it was immersed in blues guitar and a rich psychedelic tapestry built with vintage instruments. Ouroboros peaked at number 13 on the U. Merging those psychedelic tendencies with his Americana roots, the self-produced Part of the Light followed in and cracked the Top He opted to go it alone on his eighth album, Monovision.

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