Don Ray Band - 2 albums: Kickstands Up / Full Throttle

Album: Kickstands Up
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:00
Size: 87.0 MB
Styles: Southern rock, Rockin blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[4:09] 1. Kickstands Up
[3:09] 2. The Ride
[4:51] 3. Eagles And Buffalo
[3:36] 4. Daniels And Caine
[3:32] 5. My Rush
[4:58] 6. Lonesome Rider
[3:34] 7. This Is Our House
[3:28] 8. Full Throttle
[3:32] 9. Gone Nowhere
[3:05] 10. The High Road

"Kickstands Up" consists of 10 Tracks, 7 of which are the best of from their 3 previous albums, "Full Throttle", "Lonesome Rider", and "Top Of The Heap" and 3 dynamite new Tracks, "Kickstands Up", "The Ride", and "Eagles And Buffalo", which continue in their wonderful style of Pedal To The Metal Straight Up In Your Face Blues, Southern Style Rock, and Americana Roots, that has no problem wishing you were flying down the road in a hopped up GTO, with the windows down and the music up. "Eagles And Buffalo", by the way, is the band's Sturgis Bike Rally anthem. ~John Vermilyea

Kickstands Up

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Album: Full Throttle
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:17
Size: 85.4 MB
Styles: Southern rock, Rockin blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[3:34] 1. This Is Our House
[3:29] 2. Full Throttle
[3:36] 3. Daniels And Caine
[3:37] 4. Bad Decisions
[5:18] 5. Morningside Ave
[2:39] 6. Suicide Girl
[3:32] 7. My Rush
[3:44] 8. Road To Nashville
[4:00] 9. All Get Together
[3:43] 10. The Clown

With musical groups like the Drive By Truckers and other Southern Rock bands being drawn back to the Muscle Shoals area to record, it’s no wonder Don Ray Band chose to do the same. In search of the vibe and warmth of the 60s and 70s Shoals era Rock, Don Ray is happy to say, he feels like he and the band have dialed in to that vibe. The new album Full Throttle was produced by Will McFarlane and Don Ray, recorded and mixed by Jimmy Nutt at the NuttHouse studio in historic Sheffield, AL. and mastered by engineering legend Glenn Meadows at Mayfield Mastering, Nashville.

Full Throttle

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Don Ray Band - On Top of the Heap

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 40:25
Size: 92.5 MB
Styles: Modern electric blues, Southern blues-rock
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[3:05] 1. The High Road
[4:16] 2. I Might Just Say Goodbye
[4:05] 3. I Can't Find My Angel
[3:58] 4. So Wicked
[3:43] 5. Boom Chika Wah Wah
[4:00] 6. Good Bad Boy
[3:40] 7. Barbecue and Beans
[3:30] 8. Wrapped Around A Finger
[3:20] 9. Perfect Ten
[3:30] 10. How Much of This Is Love
[3:13] 11. On Top of the Heap

Don Ray Band, from Nashville, TN., is currently receiving worldwide airplay off both their critically acclaimed 2009 and 2010 album releases. They cross over the genres of Southern Rock, Blues and Outlaw Country and are pure, all original Americana music. Their show is vocal excellence accompanied by veteran musicians.

Don Ray – Singer / Songwriter, percussionist and leader of Don Ray Band, first based out of Austin, Texas and now Nashville, Tennessee.
Jonathan Armstrong – Keyboards, Songwriter, Vocalist - toured with Earl Thomas Conley for nearly 15 years as his Keyboard Player, Band Leader and Road Manager.
Donnie Lee Clark – Guitarist, Songwriter, Vocalist – has been the Guitarist and Vocalist with Pure Prairie League and was the guitarist with Blues recording artist Duke Tumatoe.
Curtis Jay – Bass Guitar – Curtis Jay has toured with Earl Thomas Conley and has many recording projects to his credit including sessions with Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer, Artimus Pyle.
Scott Thompson – Drums – Scott is a Nashville session drummer and has toured with Pam Tillis, Chad Brock and others.

Their 2009 album release, “On Top Of The Heap”, received a warm welcome by the Blues and Southern Rock communities and has stayed consistently on the Roots Music Report radio charts for over 6 months. In January 2010, Blues Underground Network awarded their album “2009 Best USA Blues Album”, “2009 Best Overall Blues Debut Album” and ranked them #2 on the Top 25 Best Worldwide Blues Albums of 2009. In April of 2010, Real Blues Magazine placed their 2009 debut album at the #1 spot on their Top 100 “Must Purchase” Blues Albums chart.

On Top of the Heap

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