Ray is at #3 on the Billboard Top 200!

Published Oct 24 2008, 10:36 AM by Jeff Inglis

Ray LaMontagne's latest album, Gossip in the Grain (RCA), is at number 3 on the Billboard 200 this week. (Only Kenny Chesney's Lucky Old Sun and T.I.'s Paper Trail did better.)

Didn't hurt that the album got a ton of attention, starting with Sam Pfeifle's review in the Portland Phoenix, and then rapidly moving to the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and then a spot on Late Night with Conan O'Brien:

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