Ray LaMontagne, KT Tunstall, & David Gray - Songwriters' Circle, Bush Hall, London, Britain, 10-22-2010

Here's another episode of the fantastic BBC TV show "Songwriters' Circle." This one is from 2010, and features the singer-songwriters Ray LaMontagne, KT Tunstall, and David Gray. As is the usual with this show, they took turns singing their own songs, backed just by their acoustic guitars (and sometimes each other).

LaMontagne has an interesting back story. He was working at a shoe factory in a small town in Maine,when he heard the song "Treetop Flyer" by Stephen Stills. The song inspired him to quit his job and become a musician, despite having no special interest or background in music at that point. His debut album "Trouble" was released in 2004. It sold half a million copies in the U.S., and the title song was a hit in Britain. His next three albums from 2006 to 2010 also did well, with each one going Gold in the U.S. (Although his sales have slowly declined since then.)

Ray LaMontagne - Wikipedia 

I've already posted a lot of music by KT Tunstall, so I don't feel the need to summarize her career here.

David Gray was born in England and mostly raised in Wales. He started out a fairly typical folk singer-songwriter. But his first three albums, released in 1993, 1994 and 1996, didn't stand out or sell well. His fourth album, "White Ladder," released in 1998, was different. It combined the folk style with electronica. At first, it also was basically totally ignored. But it was released in 2000, and began to slowly build momentum, helped by the hit song "Babylon." It ended up doing great in the U.S., selling two and a half million copies. But it did even better in Britain, selling over three million, which is especially impressive considering the U.S. population is four times as large. In fact, according to Wikipedia as I write this in 2026, this album is one of the top 30 best selling albums of all time in Britain!

But he wasn't just a one-album wonder. For instance, his 2002 album "A New Day at Midnight" went Platinum four times over in Britain, and sold half a million copies in the U.S. as well. He's been especially popular in Ireland, where his albums have broken some sales records.

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

David Gray (British musician) - Wikipedia 

Unfortunately for all three of the singer-songwriters here, they had a lot more success up to 2010, the year of this concert, than in the years since then. But at least at the time of this concert they were all doing very well.

As is typical for the episodes of this show, the three of them came together for the last song. They chose to sing "Morning of My Life," a well-known early Bee Gees song, even though it never was a big hit.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and seven minutes long. 

01 talk (David Gray)
02 Shine (David Gray)
03 talk (KT Tunstall)
04 Other Side of the World (KT Tunstall)
05 talk (Ray LaMontagne)
06 Beg, Steal or Borrow (Ray LaMontagne)
07 talk (David Gray)
08 Ain't No Love (David Gray)
09 talk (KT Tunstall)
10 [Still A] Weirdo (KT Tunstall)
11 Trouble (Ray LaMontagne)
12 talk (David Gray)
13 Babylon (David Gray)
14 talk (KT Tunstall)
15 The Entertainer (KT Tunstall)
16 talk (Ray LaMontagne)
17 Are We Really Through (Ray LaMontagne)
18 This Years Love (David Gray)
19 talk (KT Tunstall)
20 Black Horse and the Cherry Tree (KT Tunstall)
21 Like Rock and Roll and Radio (Ray LaMontagne)
22 Morning of My Life (Ray LaMontagne, KT Tunstall & David Gray)

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The cover image is a screenshot I took of a video of this exact concert. From right to left: David Gray, KT Tunstall, and Ray LaMontagne.