The life cycle of Ray Lamontagne is for psychologists. Ray lost early contact with his father, an itinerant musician. Failed at school he tried his bread to earn in a shoe factory. One day he was so touched by the song by Stephen Stills Treetop Flyer on the radio that he decided to follow in the footsteps of his father and start a singing career. Via arranged through him a record deal, and his debut
… album Trouble (2003) began a quiet triumph. Subsequent albums Til The Sun Turns Black and Gossip In The Grain were equally high quality and proven Lamontagne is no flash in the pan.more