Ray Curenton
@raycurenton.com
Cultural worker. Nashville songwriter. A little bit folk, a little bit R&B. (music at the link) 🏳️🌈 https://raycurenton.com/
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Ray Curenton
@raycurenton.com
· Sep 22
My fourth studio album, Ripples of the Past, is now available! My first full-length acoustic LP and my most intimate, personal album to date. Available digitally and on a limited-edition CD.
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Thank you for taking this journey with me. 🌊💙
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Thank you for taking this journey with me. 🌊💙
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Ray Curenton - Honesty (Acapella Version)
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"Deconstructed beliefs meet deconstructed accompaniment in the style of Take 6 and Boyz II Men"
#rb #soul #acappella #acapella #music
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"Deconstructed beliefs meet deconstructed accompaniment in the style of Take 6 and Boyz II Men"
#rb #soul #acappella #acapella #music
getmusic.fm/l/q3J1Bm
November 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Ray Curenton - Honesty (Acapella Version)
@raycurenton.com
"Deconstructed beliefs meet deconstructed accompaniment in the style of Take 6 and Boyz II Men"
#rb #soul #acappella #acapella #music
getmusic.fm/l/q3J1Bm
@raycurenton.com
"Deconstructed beliefs meet deconstructed accompaniment in the style of Take 6 and Boyz II Men"
#rb #soul #acappella #acapella #music
getmusic.fm/l/q3J1Bm
My fretting hand post-practice after not touching a guitar for a whole week be like
woody from toy story is sitting on a table next to a book and a ball .
Alt: woody from toy story grabbing his left wrist to raise to the whole arm only for it to immediately flop back down limply as soon as he lets go
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November 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
My fretting hand post-practice after not touching a guitar for a whole week be like
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This is a great take. Ultimately music is still a business to some. From the small artist to the big corporate labels. Even if its just a hobby to you, your work deserves to receive the protection of law.
This is probably going to be a deeply unpopular take but…
perhaps, if you are using uncleared samples in your music…
then you shouldn’t be releasing your music commercially
perhaps, if you are using uncleared samples in your music…
then you shouldn’t be releasing your music commercially
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is a great take. Ultimately music is still a business to some. From the small artist to the big corporate labels. Even if its just a hobby to you, your work deserves to receive the protection of law.
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“Why Wearing a Barrel As Pants is The New Hot Style”
Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“Why Wearing a Barrel As Pants is The New Hot Style”
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And I get that when it comes to hip-hop & other genres where sampling other people’s work is a huge part of the form, the # of “underground” platforms have diminished to the point where it’s hard to release anything anywhere w/o it being monetized or screened for copyright infringement by default.
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
And I get that when it comes to hip-hop & other genres where sampling other people’s work is a huge part of the form, the # of “underground” platforms have diminished to the point where it’s hard to release anything anywhere w/o it being monetized or screened for copyright infringement by default.
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this is not me saying “don’t sample”
I don’t have anything against sampling
but it is me saying “sampling stuff you don’t have the rights to sample and then putting the derivative work up on a platform that generates royalties isn’t going to go well for you.”
It’s just the nature of the game.
I don’t have anything against sampling
but it is me saying “sampling stuff you don’t have the rights to sample and then putting the derivative work up on a platform that generates royalties isn’t going to go well for you.”
It’s just the nature of the game.
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 AM
this is not me saying “don’t sample”
I don’t have anything against sampling
but it is me saying “sampling stuff you don’t have the rights to sample and then putting the derivative work up on a platform that generates royalties isn’t going to go well for you.”
It’s just the nature of the game.
I don’t have anything against sampling
but it is me saying “sampling stuff you don’t have the rights to sample and then putting the derivative work up on a platform that generates royalties isn’t going to go well for you.”
It’s just the nature of the game.
This is probably going to be a deeply unpopular take but…
perhaps, if you are using uncleared samples in your music…
then you shouldn’t be releasing your music commercially
perhaps, if you are using uncleared samples in your music…
then you shouldn’t be releasing your music commercially
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This is probably going to be a deeply unpopular take but…
perhaps, if you are using uncleared samples in your music…
then you shouldn’t be releasing your music commercially
perhaps, if you are using uncleared samples in your music…
then you shouldn’t be releasing your music commercially
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wtf is up with this artwork, apple
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 AM
wtf is up with this artwork, apple
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
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I think it’s bad that ai allows people to pretend to live in completely separate realities so they don’t have to process news and events that make them uncomfortable. I think that is bad for the health of society!
Trump supporters are also making shitty AI videos of Trump arresting Mamdani in the Oval Office.
They don't know how to process what just happened in real life, so they're making the version they prefer with AI.
They don't know how to process what just happened in real life, so they're making the version they prefer with AI.
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I think it’s bad that ai allows people to pretend to live in completely separate realities so they don’t have to process news and events that make them uncomfortable. I think that is bad for the health of society!
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Don’t know the reason/the reason
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Don’t know the reason/the reason
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Ray Curenton - NFC
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"Gregory Alan Isakov drones meet Tiny Habits harmonies in this first single from Ray Curenton's upcoming album."
#folk #acoustic #indiefolk #singersongwriter #music
getmusic.fm/l/NSh0Xd
@raycurenton.com
"Gregory Alan Isakov drones meet Tiny Habits harmonies in this first single from Ray Curenton's upcoming album."
#folk #acoustic #indiefolk #singersongwriter #music
getmusic.fm/l/NSh0Xd
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Ray Curenton - NFC
@raycurenton.com
"Gregory Alan Isakov drones meet Tiny Habits harmonies in this first single from Ray Curenton's upcoming album."
#folk #acoustic #indiefolk #singersongwriter #music
getmusic.fm/l/NSh0Xd
@raycurenton.com
"Gregory Alan Isakov drones meet Tiny Habits harmonies in this first single from Ray Curenton's upcoming album."
#folk #acoustic #indiefolk #singersongwriter #music
getmusic.fm/l/NSh0Xd
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
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Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana the size of Manhattan — while Meta runs ads about how small towns love their data centers, we found furious locals who plan to leave town completely.
November 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana the size of Manhattan — while Meta runs ads about how small towns love their data centers, we found furious locals who plan to leave town completely.
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Ray Curenton - Believer, a.k.a. The Last Shall Be the First
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"For fans of R&B music with strong melodies and bridges and layered harmonies and lyrics about healing and liberation."
#pop #rb #gospel #music
getmusic.fm/l/6c7oAJ
@raycurenton.com
"For fans of R&B music with strong melodies and bridges and layered harmonies and lyrics about healing and liberation."
#pop #rb #gospel #music
getmusic.fm/l/6c7oAJ
November 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Ray Curenton - Believer, a.k.a. The Last Shall Be the First
@raycurenton.com
"For fans of R&B music with strong melodies and bridges and layered harmonies and lyrics about healing and liberation."
#pop #rb #gospel #music
getmusic.fm/l/6c7oAJ
@raycurenton.com
"For fans of R&B music with strong melodies and bridges and layered harmonies and lyrics about healing and liberation."
#pop #rb #gospel #music
getmusic.fm/l/6c7oAJ
Shout out to benface. You’re a real one, whoever you are 🫶🏾 🤘🏾
November 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Shout out to benface. You’re a real one, whoever you are 🫶🏾 🤘🏾
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For an incredible fourth time, Lady Gaga is Rolling Stone's new cover star 🖤
Gaga talks about returning from the brink, finding love, and making one of her greatest albums that earned her seven #GRAMMYs nominations.
Read: rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Gaga talks about returning from the brink, finding love, and making one of her greatest albums that earned her seven #GRAMMYs nominations.
Read: rollingstone.com/music/music-...
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
For an incredible fourth time, Lady Gaga is Rolling Stone's new cover star 🖤
Gaga talks about returning from the brink, finding love, and making one of her greatest albums that earned her seven #GRAMMYs nominations.
Read: rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Gaga talks about returning from the brink, finding love, and making one of her greatest albums that earned her seven #GRAMMYs nominations.
Read: rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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If there is to be any argument that Christianity serves some sort of good on a societal level, it is this:
To make a world in which a teenage mom wouldn’t have given birth in a stable. In which doors would have been open, in which hands would have pulled her inside a home, given her help, comfort.
To make a world in which a teenage mom wouldn’t have given birth in a stable. In which doors would have been open, in which hands would have pulled her inside a home, given her help, comfort.
November 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
If there is to be any argument that Christianity serves some sort of good on a societal level, it is this:
To make a world in which a teenage mom wouldn’t have given birth in a stable. In which doors would have been open, in which hands would have pulled her inside a home, given her help, comfort.
To make a world in which a teenage mom wouldn’t have given birth in a stable. In which doors would have been open, in which hands would have pulled her inside a home, given her help, comfort.
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WOW.
WOW wow wow.
Giving up the game, aren’t they?
WOW wow wow.
Giving up the game, aren’t they?
But overwhelmingly, with the exception of that little Appalachian family church and the Black Churches, the Protestants asked if she was a member, or hung up on her.
One pastor told her, verbatim: “Benevolence is for our members.”
One pastor told her, verbatim: “Benevolence is for our members.”
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
WOW.
WOW wow wow.
Giving up the game, aren’t they?
WOW wow wow.
Giving up the game, aren’t they?
My most played song on Bandcamp last month. Still one of my favorites. raycurenton.bandcamp.com/track/how-my...
How My Mind Werks, by Ray Curenton
from the album Backslider: Side A
raycurenton.bandcamp.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
My most played song on Bandcamp last month. Still one of my favorites. raycurenton.bandcamp.com/track/how-my...
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New at No Fences Review: fresh Turn It Up recs from @cantkill.bsky.social & me. New stuff from Rissi Palmer and Cat Power, the 40th anniversary of the last great Clash song, a country call-and-response between Mahalia Jackson and Mavis Staples, and more! Plus reading recs. Please share & subscribe!
Turn It Up - 11/11/2025
Earworms, obsessions, recommendations
nofencesreview.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
New at No Fences Review: fresh Turn It Up recs from @cantkill.bsky.social & me. New stuff from Rissi Palmer and Cat Power, the 40th anniversary of the last great Clash song, a country call-and-response between Mahalia Jackson and Mavis Staples, and more! Plus reading recs. Please share & subscribe!
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Times Union editorial board tackled this in June, and again last month:
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Times Union editorial board tackled this in June, and again last month:
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My Mount Rushmore of Canadian songwriters:
Joni Mitchell
Leonard Cohen
Ian Tyson
Neil Young
Joni Mitchell
Leonard Cohen
Ian Tyson
Neil Young
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My Mount Rushmore of Canadian songwriters:
Joni Mitchell
Leonard Cohen
Ian Tyson
Neil Young
Joni Mitchell
Leonard Cohen
Ian Tyson
Neil Young