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Albums |
Miles From Nowhere Miles From Nowhere Miles From Nowhere Bloodline Stubbs BBQ Taste of Texas Music Volume 1 Compilation Merrol Ray Stanley |
Venues Played |
Gruene Hall- New Braunfels, TX John T. Floores Country Store- Helotes, TX Coupland Dance Hall- Coupland, TX Hank's Texas Grill- McKinney, TX Love & War in Texas- Plano, TX Old Granada Theater- Dallas, TX Sams Town Casino- Shreveport, LA Elms Million Dollar Casino- Tulsa, OK Texas Bowl/Reliant Park- Houston, TX Boone Pickens Stadium- Stillwater, OK Alamo Bowl/Alamo Dome- San Antonio, TX TMR SouthFork Ranch- Parker, TX Rolling Oaks- San A ntonio, TX Coach Joes- Frisco, TX Hat Tricks- Lewisville, TX Waterloo Ice House- Austin, TX Filthy McNasty's Saloon- Fort Worth, TX The Drunken Mule Saloon- Commerce, TX The Drunken Mule Saloon- Denison, TX The Armadillo Palace- Houston, TX The Ranch- Las Colinas, TX Crosswire- Paris, TX |
Radio |
KITX, Hugo, OK; Paris, TX KTFX, Muskogee, OK KEOK, Tahlequah, OK KQTYam/fm, Borger, TX KTKO, Beeville, TX KWEYA/F, Weathrford, OK KFAN,Fredericksburg,TX KEYB, Altus, OK KHYI, Dallas, TX KMDR,Stephenville, TX KSCH/KSCN,Sulphur Spgs/Mt. Pleasant, TX KOYN, Paris, TX KRXT, Rockdale, TX KOL I,The Outlaw, Wichita Falls, TX KBAL, San Saba, TX RadioFreeTexas.Org, Nederland, TX Outlaw Country- SIRIUS X Country- XM |
Copyright 2010. Merrol Ray |
Word on the Street |
BadAss album dude... Seriously! - Shane Hollinger / Mandatory FM- Stephenville TX |
Merrol Ray has tapped directly into the southern psyche with "Stanley" A CD full of gems by a man destined for greatness. - Jerry Clayton- Producer/ Soundcheck Texas- San Antonio TX |
Merrol Ray has one of those unmistakable voices a person just doesn’t forget. That voice is featured on his first solo record “Stanley.” Perhaps best known for his time with band Miles From Nowhere, Ray now plays under his own name along with his “awesome” band, The Regulators. Krista Goerte / The Paris News |
Perhaps the most intriguing set of the night will come courtesy of one Merrol Ray. Ray was the lead singer for Miles From Nowhere, the 2006 winner of the Shiner Rising Star award. It seems as though things are going all right for Ray after his former band’s break-up, since requests for his single, “Dancin’ Hard”, have been lighting up the phones at KHYI 95.3 for a few weeks now. Judging from that song, it seems as though Ray has kept the chugging, hard charging vibe that made MFN such a great band. The Gobbler's Knob |
Merrol Ray is a tall glass of country. He is talented and troubled (unfortunately, most of us are simply the latter.) He is also earnest to a fault. All of these characteristics shine through in his debut solo release Stanley. Ray uses these 10 tracks to paint a picture of life in (far) Northeast Texas. It’s authentic, blue-collar, hard-working, my-grandpa-picked-cotton-by-hand-whil e-yours-was-in-law-school country music and, if you pick up a copy of Stanley, you’ll understand and appreciate where Ray is coming from. And, you’ll become a fan. Joshua Jones KHYI |