Ray Lamontagne Concert Review

[Jaime]

St David's Hall, Cardiff 16 October 2007

If Ray ever makes it to Thailand, make sure you go and see him. Vids of his Cardiff gig are already on You Tube for those who want a taste of the evening.

Here's the review:

OK, so now I’m no longer a Ray Lamontagne gig virgin. The evening started off well by getting one of the signed tour posters and then, after a pint in the bar we went in to see the support act, Sarabeth Tucek. However, when we sat in our seats in the back row of Tier 7 (pretty good seats ordinarily), the diminutive Mrs Jaime let out a plaintive yelp; “I can’t see!!â€

[chelsea]

Jamie, I do not wish to appear ignorant but who is Ray Lamontagne. Personally I have never heard of him.

[DawnHRD]

Phew! Thank God for that, Chelsea. I thought I was the lone ignoramus! Who is he, please, Jaime?

[chelsea]

Well Dawn glad to know I have my uses.
Here is this guys website info, but after reading it, still have never ever heard of him.
http://www.raylamontagne.com/profile.php
Will go on youtube later and see if I can find a music clip for the uninformed

[caller]

I checked him out on the web as well, as having read Jaimes review, I assumed he was some legendary old timer now rediscovered, what with forgetting words to songs and all that. Came as a shock to learn he was 33 and had only recorded 2 albums!

[Randy Cornhole]

I'll check out the web site as well, as iv'e never heard of him either...

[Jaime]

For all of you old farts who like good music, Ray Ramontagne is a contemporary musician you can actually enjoy!

If you want to put him in a box, you could decribe his genre as something like acoustic alternative country/folk.

As an introduction, here are some links:

Here is my own You Tube clip of him performing Trouble at the Cardiff gig:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfSBwvsdJac

Here's another clip of him with Damien Rice performing To Love Somebody (Ray is the one with the biggest beard!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0rGr0N3 ... ed&search=

If you go to his MYSpace website, you can click on the songs top right of page & listen for free:

http://www.myspace.com/raylamontagne

Yes, I am becoming a Ray Lamontagne evangelist!

[BaaBaa.]

Or download them for free here.
http://www.get-music.net/mp3/ray-lamontagne-all.html

[Jaime]

Great link Baa Baa - some tracks on there that I don't have! Cheers!

Came as a shock to learn he was 33 and had only recorded 2 albums!

Well, not strictly true. He's recorded two with major labels - those being Trouble & Till the Sun Turns Black, but he's also recorded self released & indie albums like One Lonesome Saddle and Acre of Land beforehand. They are now legitimately available for free on the web. I'll look the link up if anyone's interested.

[Jaime]

Hey Baa Baa - all the songs seem to be unavailable. Is it the same at your end?

[BaaBaa.]

Hey Baa Baa - all the songs seem to be unavailable. Is it the same at your end?

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Yes, 50-60% are unavailable for me too!

Not sure what the problem is, ive seen it before on 1 track I wanted but could download it the next day.

It doesnt happen often though and Ive downloaded loads of music from this site.

I'd try again later.

Chok Dee Khap.

[pfotoguy369]

Well I'd never heard of him before but after listening to a few cuts off you tube I did like his style. Yes I'd go see him.

Kinda reminds me of Edwin Mcain

[caller]

Kinda reminds me of Edwin Mcain

And who might he be!?!?!?

[Jaime]

Hey Baa Baa,

Here's a good place to get free downloads of Ray's live & unreleased stuff. They are all currently available to download and my favourite is probably You Should Belong to Me but they're all great, including corking covers of So Tired of Waiting, To Love Somebody and most famously (for Ray fanatics like me), Gnarls Barklay's Crazy

http://fuelfriends.blogspot.com/2006/11 ... -live.html

Anyway, don't just take my word for it; here's the review of last night's Manchester gig from the Manchester Evening News:


http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... ne__apollo