Like any artist,Michael Ray can trace his evolution by looking back at the songs he's released. The singer says that Amos, his second album, marked the moment when "I started realizing who I was, not only as an artist but as a person."
It was during that album cycle that Ray began finding the confidence to organize his life the way he saw fit, hiring new management and making personal changes, too.
"I feel like "Kiss You in the Morning" was my kick-off, my big introduction to the world. And I was very fortunate to have my first single go No. 1," Ray explains. "Then "Think a Little Less" was this great, kind of hot, mid-tempo, feel-good [song], and I think we were just missing that rocking song that got everybody going."
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As soon as Miranda Lambert’s record-breaking country music career took off, she reached behind and grabbed the hand of the next young female singer and pulled her up alongside her. It’s an action Lambert has repeated time and again over the years.
She recorded Kacey Musgraves’ “Mama’s Broken Heart” years before Musgraves was a household name. She assembled her all-girl trio Pistol Annies nearly a decade ago to shine a light on bandmates Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley. And, she’s always made it a priority to take women on tour. Her all-female Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars Tour is underway now. And, she’s used her 15-year career to be a voice of empowerment, strength and vulnerability for her female fans.