FOX17 Rock & Review with Ray Stevens
Ray Stevens, a Grammy award-winning artist, releases “The Soundtrack of Your Life” with 4 new albums! Stevens plans to roll these albums out in monthly installments with “Great Country Ballads,” “Melancholy Fescue,” Slow Dance,” and “Nouveau Retro”. Then, in June, Curb Records plans to release it as a Box Set called “Iconic Songs of the 20th Century.” Ray Stevens is a Country Music Hall of Famer and, at 82 years young, has sold over 40 million albums so far. He is also in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Music City Walk of Fame, and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. He opened the premier Nashville music venue CabaRay in 2018. Watch for more great releases from this multi-talented entertainer.
I thoroughly enjoyed hearing Ray Stevens speak of all of the music he’s releasing this year! I already have ‘Great Country Ballads’ and ‘Melancholy Fescue’ downloaded and I’m anticipating the third release later this month, ‘Slow Dance’, and the fourth album in May! These albums showcase Ray’s amazing music arranging skills. Ray can read and write all kinds of music. I’ve read comments over the years from those in the music industry say how fascinating it is to watch Ray at work in a studio or see him fill out a sheet of music in minutes. He can write music for nearly any instrument. The late Norro Wilson once said that Ray “can write out the string parts; can write out the guitar chords…”.