Ray Scott

Though Ray Scott’s career was shot out of a Warner Bros. cannon in the form of his 2005 debut album My Kind of Music, the rest of the way has been paved solely by him. A tried-and-true country music storyteller with a baritone voice so low it damn near sweeps the top of your boots, Ray Scott is a take nothing for granted / earn every step kind of guy who has built his entire career on the back of each note and the shoulders of every lyric.

With 10 albums to his credit including: Crazy Like Me (2008), Rayality (2011), Ray Scott (2014), Roots Sessions, Vol. I. (2015), Guitar for Sale (2017), Honky Tonk Heart (2019), Nowhere Near Done (2020), Cover the Earth (2021) and his most recent Wrong Songs: Musings from The Shallow End – all of which were released as an independent artist - Ray Scott has not only built a solid following but evolved into a masterclass songsmith.

Another thing Ray has created, quite possibly even more personal than any of his albums, is Ray-ve In the Cave, a livestream show where he and guitarist Joe Cook hang out in Ray’s basement with their guitars, a beverage or two, and perform live. Built out of necessity during the times of Covid lockdown, Ray-ve was named one of Pollstar’s Top 50 Livestreams and gave Scott more of a one-on-one, interactional relationship with his audience than he ever had before. Some of that came from the heartfelt performances and VH1 storyteller’s vibe and some if it came from the self-deprecating, and often times, unhinged sense of humor.

“It's country music the way I interpret it,” he says. “The kind of music I’m making now is not age specific. I’m not out there wiggling my ass for anybody. It’s about telling stories, making people smile and feel something,” says Scott. “I understand sometimes the business has a place for what I do and sometimes it doesn’t, but what I do has kept me alive out there in the world because it’s different enough that people get passionate about it. They stick with it. I don’t sound like anybody else, and I don’t want to.”