August 21, 2018

Ray Stevens: Music City Walk of Fame Ceremony...Today!!

Hello one and all...well, the day has finally arrived...later this morning Ray Stevens will be among the recipients receiving a Star on the Music City Walk of Fame. It was around this time yesterday morning that I was putting the finishing touches on my previous blog entry and here I am anxiously awaiting for the ceremony to begin. Ray's office staff are hoping to have a live stream of the event on YouTube and Facebook. If there are any technical glitches then we'll have to wait for photo's and a recap to appear on-line but I'm hoping the live stream will go on without a problem. Ricky Skaggs is going to do the presentation of Ray's Star. As mentioned in some of my other blog entries Ray will be honored along side Brenda Lee, Jeannie Seely, and Ben Folds.

I didn't post this collage yesterday because I wanted to save it for the actual day he'll be receiving his Star. I included a simple star image from an image collection for panel four and I included an image of Ray's 1973 album, Nashville, in cassette format. It ties in with the city of Nashville and by pure coincidence he's in a shirts in which his shoulders and collar is decked out with stars. There is a song on the Nashville album titled "You've Got the Music Inside" and it also includes his take on "Never Ending Song of Love" as well as the aching "Love Me Longer" and the introspective "Golden Age". Since Ray's being inducted onto the Music City Walk of Fame this morning I purposely chose music-driven images, pretty much. Panel two, above the star image, is a photo of Ray taken from inside the CabaRay showroom. In the panel beneath the star image (panel five) it's a publicity photo of Ray from 1975. It would later serve as the cover photo of a 1980 issue of Country Song Roundup as well as serve as the cover photo of an obscure re-release of Even Stevens. Panel three, as you can tell, is a cassette version of Ray's 1977 album, Feel the Music. That's the album which includes his wonderful performance of "Save Me From Myself" in addition to the marvelous "Get Crazy With Me", "Road Widow", the majestic title track, and "Dixie Hummingbird". Well, now...it's 11:01am here...10:01am in Nashville...90 minutes left before the ceremony at the Music City Walk of Fame gets underway!

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