30V30
One dad. One iPhone. Human stories, creative direction, and AI-assisted music. An album born from grief and written through love.
Out There Planting Flowers
This isn’t the launch of a band. It’s Nick Ray, Hannah’s father, finding a way to put memories, grief, faith, love, and the life of his daughter into songs. What began as writing through loss is becoming a living journal in music. The sound stays rooted in country, while the stories stay rooted in something real.
Love keeps growing.
The songs move through the places loss shows up: family, familiar places, ordinary routines, milestones, memories, and the moments when missing someone arrives without warning.
The songs remember her. The scholarship carries her love forward.
Hannah Nicole Ray was a second-grade teacher, worship leader, daughter, sister, and friend who made people feel seen and loved. The Hannah Nicole Ray Memorial Scholarship Fund helps Southern Indiana students preparing to serve others through education, nursing, or ministry.
On the Community Foundation giving page, select Hannah Nicole Ray Memorial Scholarship Fund.
Good question.
There is an answer.
There’s even a song about it.
But explaining the song before you hear the song seems like a pretty good way to ruin the song.
So, for now, 30V30 is 30V30.
It’ll make sense eventually. We promise.
Songs with a reason.
Each release is part of the same story, but each is meant to stand on its own for anyone who has loved someone, lost someone, taught someone, raised someone, or carried someone with them after goodbye.
She Planted Little Flowers
A song about the kind of life that keeps blooming in the people it touched.
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Not the Empty Nest
Some empty rooms are part of watching your children grow. Some kinds of empty were never supposed to happen.
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One Still Walks These Halls
A mother and teacher walking back into a school that is familiar—and forever changed.
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Everybody Was Famous
A little different entry in the musical journal, created for Hannah’s friends.
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The Little Things Can Sting
For anyone who has lost someone close. Sometimes it’s the little things.
Listen now →Hear one of these songs in your own sound?
Country, rock, gospel, bluegrass, jazz, orchestral, acoustic—we want these songs to travel. Record a new performance in your voice, give the writing proper credit, and help the story reach someone new.
Your recording. Your voice. Simple ground rules that protect Hannah’s voice and story.
Nick Ray
Hannah’s dad and the person behind the project—turning memories, stories, and the experience of learning to live with loss into a growing journal of songs.
Human story. AI-assisted music.
The stories, themes, lyrical direction, arrangement decisions, editing, and final creative choices are human. AI is used as a production tool to help turn those ideas into finished music.
HWY60 Records
30V30 is released independently through HWY60 Records, with publishing under Southern Indiana Publishing.