Ray did old-time music a tremendous service when he started putting out LPs and later CDs in his Chubby Dragon incarnation, and even more so when he began putting out the Field Recorders Collective series which is just phenomenal. Field Recorders Collective is reorganizing (or maybe already has) as a nonprofit and will continue to issue field recordings of a wide range of old-time musicians. If you like old-time music, check out their web page:
http://www.fieldrecorder.com
Amazing recordings of everyone from fiddlers of the 1930s to nouveau oldtime of the 1980s to the Balfa Brothers in NY in the mid-1960s. A tremendous body of work.

Besides which, Ray was full of love of life and enjoyment of old-time music, not just the part about preserving it. He was such fun, I can't believe I won't see him again. He will be greatly missed.
Suzy T.