{"product_id":"trouble-1","title":"Trouble","description":"Amazon.com\n\nSome singer\/songwriters (think Paul Westerberg and Elliott Smith) develop their world-weariness through the unforgiving trials of passing years and the heart-breaking grind of the music business. Others (Van Morrison, Neil Young) seem to have sprung from out of nowhere with the fully formed soul of a life well-lived. Ray LaMontagne belongs with the latter. On this, his debut, LaMontagne has crafted a handful of quietly devastating meditations on life and love--and delivered them with a raspy vocal all his own. The simple, mournful lyrics of \"Burn,\" \"Shelter\" and the title track recall a Hank Williams ballad, and the reserved production by alt-country\/americana genius Ethan Johns (the Jayhawks, Ryan Adams, Kings of Leon) make this a great disc for smoky Saturday nights, and rainy Sunday mornings. --Ben Heege\n\nProduct description\n\nCD\n\nReview\n\nHot Songwriter: Ray LaMontagne. Meet the backwoods Van Morrison\nHis sandpaper croon sounds like church, Van Morrison and dusty porches. -- Rolling Stone, 7\/30\/04\n\nAbout the Artist\n\nFrom Rolling Stone (7\/30\/04):\nMany years ago, before he had learned to sing, written a song or had become the object of a major-label bidding war, Ray LaMontagne was, as usual, awakened at 4:30 a.m. by his clock radio. It was playing a song that changed his life: Stephen Stills' \"Treetop Flyer.\" That day, LaMontagne blew off his job at a Lewiston, Maine, shoe factory to hunt down the 1991 album Stills Alone. \"I was in a very dark place and very self-destructive and very close to killing myself in various ways,\" says the thirty-one-year-old folk singer. After he found the Stills record, he started digging into Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Ray Charles. \"It was like I found a religion,\" he says. \"I realized that you could take all this stuff that's making you miserable and turn it into something beautiful.\"\n\"When I started singing,\" he says, \"it was weird, because I was an introverted person. At first I just whispered.\" LaMontagne recently left the rural-Maine log cabin he built and had lived in with his wife and two kids for the past five years. \"Life is changing,\" he says with disarming understatement.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0002S947K\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: 4EKGRJ0064SB_ns\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Audio CD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41446999130170,"sku":"4EKGRJ0064SB_ns","price":5.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/B0002S947K-0.jpg?v=1780717764","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/trouble-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}