Boo Ray is an outlaw country troubadour and band leader based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Following in the footsteps of southern singer songwriters who've journeyed between Los Angeles and Nashville, like Jerry Reed, Tony Joe White, Kris Kristofferson and Gram Parsons, Boo Ray went out west in 2006 after doing a few years of troubadour work in the southeast. While living in LA, he first worked with "straight to tape" record producer Noah Shain, and Heartbreakers drummer Steve Ferrone on a couple of tracks for his 2010 Americana album "Bad News Travels Fast." In 2013, Sol Philcox produced the first album that Boo Ray recorded in Nashville. Following in 2016, Boo Ray again teamed with LA rock producer Noah Shain to record "Sea Of Lights" album, in downtown LA on the Ampex tape machine from Quonset Hut Studio that Bob Dylan's "Nashville Skyline" was recorded on. Then in 2019 Noah Shain flew to Nashville to record Boo Ray's "Tennessee Alabama Fireworks" album live to tape at Welcome To 1979 Studio, which included Roots Music hits "A Tune You Can Whistle", "Gone Back Down To Georgia", "Twenty Questions", "Don't Look Back, and "One More Round".
Rolling Stone has written about Boo Ray: "His dramatic southern sound will draw you in, his voice will have you hanging on every lyric and his songs will stick with you like a good friend does. Boo Ray is a southern troubadour who's forged and honed his sound in South Georgia honky-tonks, Gulf Coast jukes, Nashville nightclubs & Los Angeles songwriter joints." Hailing from the mountains of Western North Carolina and based in Nashville since 2012, Boo Ray is set to release his 5th and 6th studio albums, and a series of singles in 2024. Boo Ray says his approach to writing, making records, and leading a five piece band "is like operating a dirt track race team, "where the shorthand, elbow-grease, and experience of a skeleton crew of deep industry insiders can squeeze another 125 horsepower out of small-block motor to make a scavenged together machine run a little faster each week."
Boo Ray is known for his catchy, gritty songs, his unmistakable southern voice, his explosive live performances, playing 3 hour shows with no breaks, and for keeping a "shod-hot Nashville band."
