专辑简介

Out of the city of rain and roses, Portland Oregon presents: Original heartfelt country music from a band made up of some of the industry’s finest pickers and crooners. Professional and extremely entertaining! Jake Ray and the Cowdogs! Aside from playing to a packed house every Whiskey Wednesday for the past four years at the best honky tonk in town (the Landmark Saloon), Jake Ray and his band have opened for such acts as Dwight Yoakam and Billy Joe Shaver. Keeping the spirit of traditional country music very much alive!

Played in earnest, country music is a haunted and conflicted thing. It confesses but doesn't pity itself. It invites and honors its ghosts and history, but loves friday nights best. It's about good bands and mythical players, and it never sings down to its people. Most of all, It's about a song- a song someone lived deeply enough to write, and lived long enough to sing. Here are 12 songs that qualify, written by Jake Ray and backed by his supremely talented band graciously, we hope you enjoy.