Who: Boo Ray
From: the mountains of Western North Carolina
Song: “Gone Back Down to Georgia”
Latest Album: Tennessee Alabama Fireworks (due Feb 15)
What About It: “I’ve been going to and leaving Georgia since I was a teenager. There’s an indigenous and regional sound of players and songwriters in Georgia and that music just got all the way to me; hit me right in the middle. I went down to Georgia to get off the damned mountain when I was a teenager; went out to California to get out of the south; got homesick for sweet tea and grits and now I’m in Nashville… So yeah, maybe this song’s kind of in the spirit of that particular Georgia singer-songwriter writing device of being the most vulnerable, wounded part of yourself, offering it up in sacrifice and in celebration for anyone to identify with.”