Michael Ray At The 2023 CMAs

Beasley Digital

4/23/2025

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00:00It's Jeff Kirkshen and Justin live from the CMAs and we are with Michael Ray.

00:04No relation to Frank Ray because we just hung out with Frank Ray like a moment ago.

00:07No, he's more lingual than I am.

00:11He did slip into some Spanish.

00:13Yes.

00:14Do you speak any other languages or are you just like me?

00:15Florida mumble.

00:16That's about all I got.

00:17Yeah.

00:18Wait.

00:19Okay.

00:20Question.

00:21Because we've been taking social media videos of people pronouncing different things from

00:22across the country.

00:23Florida mumble.

00:25What's a word or a saying that nobody else would know if you said it?

00:29The thing with Florida is it's like a melting pot of everybody.

00:34Right.

00:35Right.

00:36I'm one of the few people that are born and raised there.

00:39So I'm trying to think.

00:40Mainly the mumble is as you get to talking you just kind of stop moving your lips and really

00:43start sounding like Boomhauer a little bit from King of the Hill.

00:46And then only your family.

00:47What are we doing out here?

00:48Hung a couple beers.

00:49Hung a couple beers in the alleyway.

00:50Having a good time.

00:51Okay.

00:52So normally that comes out when I'm down there and so if I bring any guests with me they're

00:57like, what did you just say?

00:58Excuse me?

00:59Yeah.

01:00Now does it start to definitely fade out when the whiskey comes in too?

01:04Like more quickly?

01:05If there's whiskey or tequila or beer involved?

01:07Oh, does it come out faster?

01:08The mumble just happens immediately.

01:09Oh, by that point I might as well be speaking in Braille.

01:11Yeah.

01:12Nobody understands what I'm saying.

01:13Well, we have a lot of friends in Tampa who, you know, at our station QIK who might

01:18say the same thing.

01:19They might say the Florida mumble.

01:20It's real.

01:21Yeah.

01:22They've interviewed me so they've heard it.

01:23I'm sure.

01:24So new singles out and before we got on you said you've been chewing your nails.

01:28Are you really that nervous when you release them out?

01:29No, man.

01:30No.

01:31I was joking, man.

01:32You know, honestly, I'm probably the least nervous I've ever been with this record.

01:36Yeah.

01:37I think when you really tap into who you are and you really just kind of get that, you

01:42find that sound that you've been looking for and, you know, sometimes it takes a little

01:45bit and I feel confident in it, you know, and this single, we had the video just premiered

01:50this morning in Times Square at 6 a.m.

01:52Oh, and the big board?

01:53Yeah, man.

01:53That's surreal.

01:54Yeah, yeah.

01:54I figured it'd be a wanted poster, but, you know, but it turns out it's a video for me.

01:58But Megan Patrick's on it and it's been cool.

02:00You know, this is my first duet, you know, out like this and her first single out to American

02:05country radio, she's been crushing it in Canada, so it's been cool.

02:08So you hear the song and I've been trying to describe it to people.

02:11I said haunting.

02:12I don't know if that's the right word.

02:13What is a word that would describe the new single?

02:15Haunting is good.

02:15I think it's a good one.

02:16Yeah, haunting.

02:17And it's the thing, you know, we've all been there where it's like you go through that

02:19phase right after a breakup where you're like, well, I got to get drunk.

02:23And then you do this and everybody does it if you're in this current situation.

02:28However, just know that my grandparents always said if you're drinking for a purpose,

02:32the purpose will come out.

02:33Oh, that's great.

02:34And so, you know, sometimes when you're drinking, those spirits, the demons don't hide, you

02:39know, so.

02:41Preach.

02:42That's my hallelujah.

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