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Ray Curenton
@raycurenton.com
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Cultural worker. Nashville songwriter. A little bit folk, a little bit R&B. (music at the link) 🏳️‍🌈 https://raycurenton.com/

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“Ripples of the Past” hits No. 1! Thank you Alt Q! 💙🌊
ALT Q: Alternative Queer Radio Alt Q Top 20 Week of November 17th, 2025 | This Week | Last Week | Artist | Song | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | 2 | RAY CURENTON | RIPPLES OF THE PAST | | 2 | 4 | GLEN MEADMORE | NO MONEY, NO HONEY | | 3 | 3 | HELEN COUNTS | UNRAVEL | | 4 | 5 | SEA BYRNE | WHAT YOU LOST | | 5 | 6 | CALEB NICHOLS | SLATE AGE | | 6 | 8 | AMMONITE | SIDEWINDER | | 7 | 7 | ELLE ARCHER | TIGHTROPE | | 8 | 11 | ELECTRO LAGUBO | HAVE WE ASKED TOO MUCH | | 9 | 10 | LAILAH LANSING | LOVE LOST | | 10 | 13 | BAHA JARVIS | BAHA FASHION | | 11 | 12 | ZOE KONEZ | HUMAN | | 12 | 9 | LOYD | EGO DEATH | | 13 | 20 | SUPERKNOVA | A CIS TEEN PAINTED THIS CHAPEL | | 14 | 15 | DOGVIOLET | NOW | | 15 | 18 | JEFF BLUE LINE - THOMAS YORE | SUNDAY EVENING BLUE (REDUX) | | 16 | 1 | SASHA ALLEN | FIRE IN AMERICA | | 17 | 17 | HD EM-I | CHANGELING | | 18 | NEW | CHRIS GARNEAU | RIOT | | 19 | NEW | ERIC HOLM | I DON’T CARE WHERE YOU’RE FROM | | 20 | 14 | BOI AND THE GHOULS | LITTLE SH*T HEAD | MON/TUES/FRI 4pmPT 7pmET 11pmGMT Alt Q Radio WED/THUR 8amPT 11amET 3pmGMT LIVE 365
December 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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I am so proud of myself. I’ve always wanted to stick to my goal of reading a book a month for a full year and I finally did it!
Challenge Details 2025 Reading Challenge Congrats! You've reached your goal. 13 of 12 books read | 33 days left 108%
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Believer, a.k.a. The Last Shall Be the First Ray Curenton (@raycurenton): Books that inspired Believer: Black Against Empire: The History & Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom & Waldo E. Martin, Jr. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur Just Above My Head by James Baldwin Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches by Audre Lorde The Color Purple by Alice Walker Ronnie Gilbert: A Radical Life in Song by Ronnie Gilbert The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels & Karl Marx Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry & Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey
November 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Gotta love that anti-flat butt technology
Another Mott & Bow ad. Close-up of a person wearing fitted green jeans outdoors, with text promoting Mott & Bow's "anti flat-butt technology" and various product benefits: * Women grab temptation * Take all the compliments in the room * Age-appropriate *Boost your confidence
November 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I still don’t fully know where this lyric came from…or what it fully means. “Shadowed and shone to guide them.” “For one, for all, for life, for long.” More than any other song on the project, this one is a great mystery to me. #acoustic #songwriter #nashvillemusic #ripplesofthepast #folksoul
October 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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It’s these three for me
Folded (Remix) [feat. Brandy] Kehlani, Brandy Folded (Remix) [feat. JoJo] Kehlani, JoJo Folded (Remix) [feat. Mario] Kehlani, Mario
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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My second studio album, Backslider, is featured this week on @getmusic.bsky.social

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The album cover for Backslider (2014), featuring me, with a short fro and gold eye makeup, looking directly at the camera and resting my hand under my chin, against a dark background.
October 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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I am so unable kehlani.lnk.to/FoldedHomage...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Original written as a prayer for a family member, I’ve found this piece to have more and more resonance for myself. The harmony layers on the album recording were a joy to record—a very spiritual experience. 💙 #singersongwriter #acoustic #strippeddown #folksoul
October 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Spent time with some of these new songs the other day. This is one of my favorite melodies on the whole project 💙 #singersongwriter #acoustic #strippeddown #folksoul
October 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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quote this with your reaction to gettin left behind during the rapture
September 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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“It’s a project that not only showcases Curenton’s evolution as an artist but also opens a window into the quiet, complicated echoes of memory that ripple through adulthood.” apricot-magazine.com/review/ray-c...
Apricot Magazine: Ray Curenton Finds Healing and Clarity in ‘Ripples of the Past’
September 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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My fourth studio album, Ripples of the Past, is now available! My first full-length acoustic LP and my most intimate, personal album to date. Available digitally and on a limited-edition CD.

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Thank you for taking this journey with me. 🌊💙
Album cover for Ripples of the Past by Ray Curenton. Abstract blue and white symmetrical pattern resembling an inkblot, with textured and marbled background details. CD of Ripples of the Past. A 4-panel CD wallet with crescent pocket cut plus 12-page booklet insert including full song lyrics. Act 1: Age of Minority Of Framingham Ground Zero NFC Act 2: Age of Maturity Is That Alright? Once Familiar Friend Happiness Unreliable Narrator Act 3: Age of Majority Sandpaper The Year That Changed Everything Ripples of the Past For One, For All
September 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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the wifi…
September 21, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Ripples of the Past out in 2 days!

“Of Framingham” available when you pre-order/pre-add the album now. www.submithub.com/link/ray-cur...
September 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Ripples of the Past out in 3 days!

“The Year That Changed Everything” available now when you pre-order/pre-add the album now. www.submithub.com/link/ray-cur...
September 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Ripples of the Past out in 5 days!

“Ground Zero” available now when you pre-order/pre-add the album now. www.submithub.com/link/ray-cur...
September 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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IG ads practically screaming “I know what you are 👀” and you know what, they’re right. I won’t pretend.
Screenshot of an Instagram ad with a man with a very prominent butt wearing tan pants and a striped shirt standing with his back to the camera, highlighting the fit and design of the pants. Text reads, "Plus, the butt-lifting design?. Screenshot of an Instagram ad with a close-up of a man wearing black jeans with white text overlay that reads, “The Only Jeans That Flatter Your Legs, Butt And Budget.”.
September 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Ripples of the Past. My fourth studio album. An indie folk memoir-in-song and my most vulnerable work to date.

Pre-order the new album now and get five songs immediately, the rest on release day, Sept 12. Available digitally and on a limited-edition CD.

raycurenton.bandcamp.com/album/ripple...
Album cover for Ripples of the Past by Ray Curenton. Abstract blue and white symmetrical pattern resembling an inkblot, with textured and marbled background details. CD of Ripples of the Past. A 4-panel CD wallet with crescent pocket cut plus 12-page booklet insert including full song lyrics. Act 1: Age of Minority Of Framingham Ground Zero NFC Act 2: Age of Maturity Is That Alright? Once Familiar Friend Happiness Unreliable Narrator Act 3: Age of Majority Sandpaper The Year That Changed Everything Ripples of the Past For One, For All
September 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Ripples of the Past in the Singer/Songwriter Pre-Orders list on the iTunes Store
Screenshot from the iTunes Store app - Ripples of the Past currently the 11th entry
September 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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“Of Framingham”, the fifth single and opening track from my upcoming album Ripples of the Past is out now.

Stream it everywhere: www.submithub.com/link/ray-cur...

And download it instantly when you pre-order the album: raycurenton.bandcamp.com/album/ripple...

Only two weeks to go 🌊
Single cover for “Of Framingham” by Ray Curenton. Starry night sky over a mountain reflected in a lake, overlaid with a dark, symmetrical abstract design; text at bottom reads "of framingham". Daylight Taking accounting of a past life If weather doesn't cause a late blight I know I'll see you some someday Longing Painting with colors of the dawning If you can hear notes from these heartstrings I know I'll see you some someday Like the right book from a shelf Always looking for myself But does myself ever find me? And the axiom's quite strange That people grow and people change When they're often stationary Answers We seldom ever get the answers But when the stillness gives me a gesture I know I'll see you some, some someday Like the right book from a shelf Always looking for myself But does myself ever find me? And it's really not complex I don't call and you don't text But I still care for you madly ℗© 2025 Ray Curenton. All Rights Reserved. Warning: Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws.
August 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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This is something.

I’ve been sitting with it for the past couple days and I have no desire to get in a confrontation over it so I’m not going to jump in any mentions, but I would like to voice my own thoughts about it all the same.
I don't accept the term "Queer Christian." Gay Christian, sure. But to me "queer" is a protest against societal norms that shame and humiliate us for being queer. Christianity is the main force behind those oppressive societal norms. Don't insult the word queer with that garbage oxymoron.
August 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Of Framingham. Aug 29. #RipplesOfThePast #homevideos
August 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Ripples of the Past. My first foray into indie folk and my most vulnerable work to date.

Pre-order the new album now and get four songs immediately, the rest on release day, Sept 12. Available digitally and on a limited-edition CD.

raycurenton.bandcamp.com/album/ripple...
Album cover for Ripples of the Past by Ray Curenton. Abstract blue and white symmetrical pattern resembling an inkblot, with textured and marbled background details. CD of Ripples of the Past. A 4-panel CD wallet with crescent pocket cut plus 12-page booklet insert including full song lyrics. Act 1: Age of Minority Of Framingham Ground Zero NFC Act 2: Age of Maturity Is That Alright? Once Familiar Friend Happiness Unreliable Narrator Act 3: Age of Majority Sandpaper The Year That Changed Everything Ripples of the Past For One, For All
August 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Ripples of the Past CD unveiled! Preorder now at raycurenton.bandcamp.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM