Ray LaMontagne - Like Rock & Roll and Radio - Live on Jools Holland - HQ video

Ray LaMontagne was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1973 to a constantly traveling mother and a violent musician father who abandoned the family during Ray's childhood. Because of his father's background in music, LaMontagne refrained from most musical activity, instead spending much of his time reading fantasy novels in the forest. He attended high school at Morgan High School in Morgan, Utah, but frequently ditched class, wrote stories, or got into fights with other students. As a result of these interactions, his grades were poor and he struggled to graduate. After graduation, LaMontagne moved away from his family to Lewiston, Maine in order to find a full-time job.
LaMontagne found a job at a shoe factory in Lewiston where he worked 65 hours a week. One morning at 4 a.m., LaMontagne heard Stephen Stills' song "Treetop Flyer" on the radio as it awoke him for an early work shift. After purchasing the Stills Alone album, he decided that he wanted to quit his job at the shoe factory and start a career as a singer-songwriter. LaMontagne began touring in 1999, although he maintained a side job as a carpenter. In the summer of 1999, LaMontagne amassed 10 songs for a demo that he sent to various local music venues. Mike Miclon the owner of Buckfield, Maine's Oddfellow Theater heard the demo and invited him to open for folk acts such as John Gorka and Jonathan Edwards. A friend and business executive heard LaMontagne's recordings and introduced him to Jamie Ceretta of Chrysalis Music Publishing. CMP recorded his first album, and sold it to RCA Records in the US and Echo Records in the UK.
In 2008, LaMontagne moved into a farmhouse in rural western Massachusetts with his wife and two children
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[akj375]

According to Ray, he wrote the new album in about a week. Can you imagine just sitting down and writing deeply beautiful, insightful compelling lyrics like these simply at will?! And what incredible acumen! How many people even know what the Ziegfeld Girls or the Vaudeville Show are? Exactly, they're strangers, relics of a past life. Damn!! the lyrics aren't just deep, they have several levels of depth. Ray is truly a phenomenon!

[lnnerPeace]

God i love this man

[ParadoxKismet]

This song is so moving to me... I can relate it to my life. It nearly brings me to tears each time I hear it... Sometimes I just let it. Ray is an amazing artist. I appreciate the information about him provided as well. peace

[axelgrz]

a prayer....................

[FlyingVneckSweater]

I wasn't that keen on his latest offerings but this is truly awesome heart wrenching stuff!!! May I humbly thank you ray.....

[wmtirone]

I'm almost certain I've provided 1,400 views of this total.

[MsELJackson]

this man helps me during my writting stages! overtly deep, his on a different depth to most humans! just simply beautiful.

[Graham32200]

U know I really think Rays deeper into his music than we can understand and that it's more than making a record deal buts it's truly about his lifework and all the tough times he's went through. I feel bad that he never had a good father figure in his life. Right now I'm crying. Rock on ray. :)

[bclover09]

I saw Ray perform this song live last night @ Koka Booth Amphitheater in Raleigh, NC. I haven't seen an audience hushed in awe like that in many many years! It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop...and the crickets & frogs in the background as he rasped out this amazing tune! So magical! Nothing like raw soul being belted out! Keep it REAL Ray!

[lyndaKu]

weeping

[basketcase5295]

Love his picking pattern. Sounds like Mr. Neil Young.

[punkiejunkie1000]

@bloonmooncove yah...thats exactly how i feel about this song. i will always keep in my heart my lost friends....