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ALBUMAlways On My Mind - SingleDonnie Ray & The Lady Songbird Jinda
Albums by Donnie Ray
ALBUMI'm Just the Man for YouDonnie Ray
ALBUMMy Southern SoulDonnie Ray
ALBUMTwo Way Love AffairDonnie Ray
ALBUMShe's My Honey BeeDonnie Ray
ALBUMDrowning in My Own TearsDonnie Ray
ALBUMI'm Goin' BackDonnie Ray
ALBUMWho's Rockin' You?Donnie Ray
ALBUMIt's BYOBDonnie Ray
ALBUMCaught By the CatDonnie Ray
ALBUMYou've Got MeDonnie Ray
Donnie Ray's Popular Music Videos
She's Just My Girlfriend
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Come Back
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Train Wreck (Visualizer)
The Lady Songbird Jinda & Donnie Ray
Always On My Mind
Donnie Ray & The Lady Songbird Jinda
Artist Biography
Renowned as a performer and recording artist in the Southern soul and Carolina beach music scenes, Donnie Ray got his start in music as a teenager but didn't release any albums of his own until 2000, when he debuted on the Susie Q label with Let's Go Dancing. Since then, the singer and songwriter has released a new album almost every year, rooted in traditional Southern R&B with a touch of contemporary blues, steadfastly continuing down the lane paved by the likes by Bobby "Blue" Bland, Johnnie Taylor, and Tyrone Davis. His full-lengths for the independent Ecko and CDS labels, including Don't Stop My Party (2006), Who's Rockin' You? (2011), and My Southern Soul (2018), have routinely landed on Blues Critic's year-end charts.
A native of Texarkana, Texas, Donnie Ray started performing during the mid-'70s with his father's group, the Aldredge Brothers Band, gradually learning to play numerous instruments, including four- and six-string guitars, keyboards, and drums. After decades in the background, he signed with Susie Q and stepped forward in the early 2000s with his first two albums, Let's Go Dancing and Are You Ready for Me, released respectively in 2000 and 2003. Throughout a subsequent and longer affiliation with the Memphis-based Ecko label, Ray recorded more frequently, beginning in 2005 with I'll Be Good to You. This decade-long period was highlighted by Who's Rockin' You?, which not only placed on Blues Critic's Top 20 year-end list for 2011 but also won the website's readers' poll for Best Southern Soul/R&B Album. Ray moved over to the CDS label in 2016 with Two Way Love Affair and followed up in 2018 with My Southern Soul, his 14th studio album. ~ Andy Kellman
Hometown
Texarkana, TX, United States
Genre
Blues