I’d never heard of Ray LaMontagne until Amazon recently confided in me that people frequently bought his latest album together with Martin Sexton’s Solo. People that buy Martin Sexton albums obviously have the finest and most discerning tastes, so I sampled Gossip in the Grain and liked what I heard. Now I own all three of his studio albums.
He has an amazing voice; the music is quite moving. Much of it is sensitive and melancholy, along with a representation of good rock and roll. It’s all good. Given my extreme limitations in the art of music review, you might want to see for yourself: Here’s a BBC performance of a song from his second album, Till the Sun Turns Black:
