The song "Till the Sun Turns Black" was featured on the television show ER, and the songs "Lesson Learned" and "Within You" appeared on the CW drama One Tree Hill. In 2006 LaMontagne performed on The Tonight Show. The album spawned the single "Three More Days". 28 on the Billboard 200 album chart, selling 28,000 copies in its first week of release. LaMontagne's second album, Till the Sun Turns Black, was released in August 2006 and featured horn and string sections on several of the songs with Rachael Yamagata providing additional vocals on the song "Barfly". LaMontagne performing in Dublin, January 2007
In 2005, he performed at two charity events, a New York City fundraiser for the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the " Warren Haynes Christmas Jam".
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His song "Hold You in My Arms" was featured in the 2006 movie She's The Man.
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His song "Trouble" appeared in the TV series Alias as well as in a national television commercial for Travelers Insurance, and his song "Jolene" was heard in the credits of the 2010 film The Town. Īn EP of LaMontagne's performance at the Bonnaroo Music Festival was released in 2005 and his song "All the Wild Horses" was part of the soundtrack for the TV series Rescue Me and the 2009 film The Boys Are Back. During a 2005 tour, LaMontagne performed at the music festival, Austin City Limits. The album sold over 250,000 copies in the US and 500,000 worldwide. The album featured performances by Sara Watkins and Jennifer Stills, daughter of musician Stephen Stills. In the summer of 1999 he recorded 10 songs for a demo album that was sent to various local music venues including Maine's Oddfellow Theater, where he was hired as an opening act for John Gorka and Jonathan Edwards.Ī business executive named Ron Clayton discovered Ray at a musical festival in Maine and introduced LaMontagne to Chrysalis Music Publishing and in 2004 LaMontagne recorded the album Trouble with producer Ethan Johns and sold it to RCA Records in the US and Echo Records in the UK. LaMontagne began performing in 1999 while maintaining a part-time job as a tutor. LaMontagne was inspired to quit his job and begin a career as a singer-songwriter after waking up one morning to the radio on his alarm clock playing the Stephen Stills' song "Treetop Flyer".
Other sources state that by his teen years he was living in Maine, spending time in Turner and Buckfield. LaMontagne also spent a significant amount of time in Wilton, Maine. After graduating from high school, LaMontagne moved to Lewiston, Maine, and found work in a shoe factory. In his early teens he lived in Morgan, Utah, and was more interested in drawing images of Dungeons & Dragons than in his school work. LaMontagne was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1973, one of six children raised by his mother.
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