The Songs of Peter Ray: Recent Episodes

The Songs of Peter Ray

Songs written when I was in high school and college, or inspired by the crazy, mixed up dude I was back then...

View Details

In which your humble podcaster bids farewell to this project and hail to his 60th year.

View Details

A genuinely heartfelt tribute to the dogs that give us so much joy in our lives.  More details…

View Details

A song written in 72 hours for my mom, because I had no choice. More details…

View Details

My least favorite song, but I tried so hard. More details…

View Details

She donated a lot of $ to the LA Zoo and got to chill with bears.  More details…

View Details

She wasn’t even my mom when I wrote this for her.  More details…

View Details

That Butter Boy is a bad m*** – shut yo’ mouth!  But I’m Talking About the Butter Boy… More details…

View Details

An epic ditty about that foamy yellow liquid that gives so many of us so much joy.  More details…

View Details

An ode to the 80s Austin club scene, and those outrageous happy hours (and girls)… More details…

View Details

Sometimes I think about my g**, and what it was like when I had ’em…  More details…

View Details

How I lost that damn class ring that cost me a month worth of wages.  More details…

View Details

A cosmic 12 bar blues tribute to the one and only…  More details…

View Details

A song inspired by frenzied dancing in Bollywood movies.  More details…

View Details

A date with a Mean Girl that didn’t go well…  More details…

View Details

The dreamer meets the Dark Overlords and becomes a realist…  More details…

View Details

Somehow a very personal love song and a tribute to Ms. John. More details…

View Details

Don’t tell mama, but I wrote a song about smokin’ weed… More details…

View Details

Hard rock meets Prince meets Jesus – all in one song!  More details..

View Details

A song written for my father, my brother, and my son.  More details…

View Details

Your fearless songwriter tackles the biggest subject of all.  More details…

View Details

A sentimental tribute to the cities we always seem to move away from. More details…

View Details

A sentimental tribute to those people older than us  More details…

View Details

Let’s sing a song for that minstrel…you know who I’m talking about.  More details…

View Details

A song which sounds nothing like the Styx song it is based on  More details…

View Details

A song praising the fairer sex, creatures which fill me with joy and terror  More details…

View Details

Whip out that spandex because we have a head banger in the house!  More details

View Details

Whereby I introduce the musical mutt known as “Happiness”, the first unabashed love song in the set. Get out your hankies…  More details

View Details

A peppy song declaring we got all we need, featuring generous amounts of accordions and fiddles.  More details

View Details

A very sweet mini-suite. Listen to it with the amps at 11  More details

View Details

The well traveled anthem of a teenage head banger. More details

View Details

To be young and in love with a guitar in your hands, surrounded by some of the most beautiful mountains in the world…  More details

View Details

The story behind why a 15 year old boy wrote a song about Jimmy Carter back in the late 70s and has been playing it ever since. More details

View Details

The story behind the jazzy, trippy ”Closing on the Mind”, written in 1977. More details

View Details

The first musical episode, focusing on the earliest song, ”Requiem for a Fly”, written in 1976 when I was 15 years old.  More details

View Details

A little background on the inspiration for the project – a humble little box I hauled from home to home for almost four decades…

View Details

A genuinely heartfelt tribute to the dogs that have given us so much joy in our lives. More details…

View Details

A song written in 72 hours for my mom, because I had no choice. More details…

View Details

My least favorite song, but I tried so hard. More details…

View Details

She donated a lot of $ to the LA Zoo and got to chill with bears. More details…

View Details

She wasn’t even my mom when I wrote this for her. More details…

View Details

That Butter Boy is a bad m*** – shut yo’ mouth! More details…

View Details

An epic ditty about that foamy yellow liquid that gives so many of us so much joy. More details…

View Details

An ode to the 80s Austin club scene, and those outrageous happy hours. More details…

View Details

Sometimes I think about my g**, and what it was like when I had ’em… More details…