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Since turning professional during
the mid-1950s, Ray has played with such Blues greats as Jimmy Witherspoon, Big Momma Thornton, Big Maybelle, King Curtis, and Tiny Grimes either as a recording sideman or in live performance. He has also appeared
with such R& B stars as Lou Rawls, Nancy Wilson, Najee, Stanley Turrentine, David Fathead Newman, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes and Gloria Lynn.
With his own Blues
Band, he has performed at numerous college concerts. He has recently recorded and released a single, Heavy Women Excite Me. His career has been influenced by Jazz and early forms of R&
B. B.B. King's music, however, changed Ray's musical life. |
