Introducing Raycharles Lamontagne

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Introducing Raycharles Lamotagne
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Released2003 (Limited)
Genre Folk-rock, alternative rock
Ray Lamontagne chronology
One Lonesome Saddle
(2003)
Introducing Raycharles Lamotagne
(2003)
Trouble
(2004)

Introducing Raycharles Lamontagne is a self-released album by Ray LaMontagne, released in 2003.

It mostly contains early versions of songs that would later appear on Ray LaMontagne's major-label debut, Trouble.

Track listing

  1. "Trouble"
  2. "Burn In My Skin"
  3. "Country Girl"
  4. "Hannah"
  5. "How Come" (Acoustic)
  6. "Please"
  7. "Shelter"
  8. "The Narrow Escape"
  9. "All the Wild Horses"

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