Collin Raye shows he's no quitter
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Collin Raye shows he's no quitter

Monday, November 19, 2007 – Collin Raye may not have had a hit in awhile, but he hopes "Quitters" will turn the trick. His new single, "Quitters," went to radio three weeks ago. At his myspace site. "Quitters" has surpassed 160,000 spins since its release and averages about 18,000 new spins daily. His label MySpace site, StarPointe Records, is also garnering new listeners daily by adding an additional 25,000 spins to "Quitters."

Raye heads overseas where he will performing five dates next week across Ireland playing in Castlebar, Letterkenny, Cookstown, Dublin and one at St Joseph's Hall in Omagh. This will mark Raye's first tour in Ireland.


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CD review - Twenty Years and Change With 15 number 1 singles under his belt, it would be easy for country tenor Collin Raye to rest on this past success and settle into musical mediocrity. Raye's first disc in more than four years - confirms that the man with the silky smooth voice isn't content to rest. The new record even finds the master lyric interpreter penning a couple of songs - the title track, and "All I Can Do Is Love," co-written with Melissa Manchester.Kickin' it off with a high-steppin' country anthem, in the vein of ...
Collin Raye may be committed to not backing down, but he seemingly has never seen a big empty gesture he didn't like. Or so the evidence from this new release suggests. "End of the World," for example, suggests that the very elements themselves would disintegrate into a ball of nothingness if his girl ever left him. And while such a plot line might make for an eye-catching big budget Hollywood movie, such grandness doesn't work well at all for good country music. Country music's best perspective ...
Rev up the guitars and love potion, and you have another in a line of Collin Raye albums likely to light up the radio station airwaves, but not leave a lasting stamp. Raye aims for a Big Sound from the get go with blazing guitars and pounding drums being pounded on the lead-off lyrically silly "She's All That," which Raye wrote with brother Scott. And the love quotient is awfully high with song titles saying it all - "I Want to Be There," Completely," "You Will Always Be Mind and "You Still Take Me there. ...


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