About PATRICK B RAY

Over the past decade, Patrick has shared his down-to-earth tunes with audiences from North Carolina to California, and along the backroads, llanos, and mountains in between. In true family tradition, his love for country music was born dancing as a small cotton-headed boy in the living room of a little house on Durango Street with his mother, swaying to the country classics. In Austin, a high school friend put a guitar in his hands, and his romance with creating music was born. After high school, Patrick roamed through Texas and Arizona, picking up musical influences and lifelong friends along the way. Patrick performed with The Chris Brazeal Band and The Texas Treetop Flyers in the oilfields of West Texas during his college years and then moved to California, where he played with Patch and Rita and the Edgewood Mountain Boys in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. As a true Texas Man, Patrick knew he couldn’t stay gone too long, so he packed up his dusty boots and came back home. After years of playing other people’s music and writing his own tunes, he launched his solo career in 2019 from his new musical home, the Bayou City.

Texas Man

Patrick B Ray released his debut solo album Texas Man in May of 2021, and is spending the summer touring from Texas up through Appalachia before heading to the Mountain West to tour through CO, WY, and MT. Texas Man is an autobiographical album that takes us through Patrick’s younger and wilder years full of hard work, hangovers, and heartbreak. We also get vignettes into the styles and artists who influenced Patrick over the years. The final two tracks “King of Houston” and “Texas Man” bring it all home. “King of Houston” is a vignette of Patrick’s life in Houston: taking a girl out to the dancehall and feeling like the top of the world when you walk into the bar and all your friends are there to enjoy life with you. “Texas Man” is one of the oldest songs Patrick ever wrote and a true love letter to life, an optimistic prayer to the Gods of the Lone Star, both giving thanks and asking for their benediction.

2022-2023

As pandemic restrictions have tapered off and the live music industry slowly recovers from the devastation wrought by the shutdowns, Patrick has been busy playing live shows across the nation and recording new music. In 2022, he played 84 shows on both the East and West Coasts of the US, as well as touring through the Mountain West with stops in Wyoming and Montana. In 2023, he’s made stops in North Carolina, New York, Massachusetts, California, Wyoming, and Montana, and he’s always playing somewhere in Texas, frequenting the Hill Country, Far West Texas, and the Gulf Coast. With a string of releases through 2022 and 2023, and more studio time already booked for the next batch of releases, Patrick promises to bring good country music to the folks that need it.