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.

Patrick B Ray is released his debut album Texas Man on May 13, 2021, and is 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.