CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF DR HOOK FEATURING RAY SAWYER

Let The Good Times Roll ... Dr Hook featuring Ray Sawyer are on the road again!

Millions of fans around the world will remember Ray Sawyer as the highly animated, eye patched, lead singer of the group. His raspy, soulful, and sometimes comic vocals fronted the bands breakthrough to the ‘Cover of The Rolling Stone’ and international superstar status from the late 1960’s to the early 1980’s, with many hits including Sylvia’s Mother, When You’re In Love With A Beautiful Woman, A Little Bit More, Sharing The Night Together, Everybody’s Making It Big But Me, More Like The Movies, Sexy Eyes and Years From Now.

Accumulating 60 Gold and Platinum records worldwide with Dr Hook, Ray Sawyer has gained the confidence of a seasoned entertainer and still travels the world with his band. His son, Cayce has been touring with him since he was 13, playing percussion and singing background vocals in the show. He is now the drummer for the Band. Ray has had the honour of being inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in April 2005. With an abundance of stage energy, and impish sense of humour, an unmistakable voice and image, and a unique ability to reflect his good times in good music, Ray is definitely a song stylist of the first order, and never was it more evident ...

Ray Sawyer was born and lived in Mobile, Alabama, and got his first job as a musician at the age of 14. His style was indelibly marked by the amalgam of black and white Southern music that kept Alabama dance halls hopping. “When you play Mobile, you play either Country or Rhythm & Blues, though down there, they are just about the same thing” Sawyer explains. Developing a style that extracted honesty and emotion - the best traits of both Country and R&B, Ray sings with an intensity and sense of conviction that truly moves an audience.

He got his trademark eye patch in 1967 as the result of a car accident, and he was in a wheelchair for a year. When he got back on his feet, Sawyer headed to Los Angeles, working his way back east where the core of Dr Hook was formed in time to record Shel Silversteins score to the Dustin Hoffman movie ‘Who Is Harry Kellerman And Why Is He Saying These Terrible Things About Me?’