Michael Ray says he includes the truth in the country music he makes. He feels like it is that real life ingredient that allows the music to reach people on a deeper level.

“Country music is a universal language. It’s real. It’s about real life. It’s about real people. It’s about real situations. So, odds are, if you’re writing from a place of a broken heart, or love, or … To go ride roads with your buddies and just drink some beer and hang out, other people are feeling that too and have been through it. It’s the one thing that ties us all together, no matter … anything that’s going on in the world, music ties us all together.”

You may be able to feel that connection in Michael’s latest single “Whiskey And Rain.” The song is Top 10 and climbing on the country charts. Listen for it on Bloomington-Normal’s #1 Country, B104.

Is there a song you connected with the first time you heard it and felt like it was written about you? What was it?

By: Buck Stevens