Question: What American country singer previously known as Bubba Wray released the song "On the Verge" in 1997?

Context articles: Collin Raye
Rainbow (Johnny Cash album)
Robert Levon Been
Blue (Bill Mack song)
The Wrays
If We Make It Through December (album)
On the Verge (song)
Wanted (Hunter Hayes song)
Unchained Melody: The Early Years
Rattlesnake Annie

Floyd Elliot Wray (born August 22, 1960) is an American country music singer, known professionally as Collin Raye, and previously as Bubba Wray.
 Under the latter name, he recorded as a member of the band The Wrays between 1983 and 1987.
 He made his solo debut in 1991 as Collin Raye with the album "All I Can Be", which produced his first Number One hit in "Love, Me".
 "All I Can Be" was the first of four consecutive albums released by Raye to achieve platinum certification in the United States for sales of one million copies each.
 Raye maintained several Top Ten hits throughout the rest of the decade and into 2000.
 2001's "Can't Back Down" was his first album that did not produce a Top 40 country hit, and he was dropped by his record label soon afterward.
 He did not record another studio album until 2005's "Twenty Years and Change", released on an independent label.
Rainbow is the 70th album by American country singer Johnny Cash, his last for Columbia Records, released in 1985 (see 1985 in country music).
 "I'm Leaving Now", which appeared fifteen years later as a track on Cash's "", was released as a single rather unsuccessfully, but the album's signature song is a cover of Kris Kristofferson's "Here Comes That Rainbow Again", which also appeared on Cash's 1995 collaboration with Kristofferson, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings - known as The Highwaymen - entitled "The Road Goes on Forever", though it was sung solo by Kristofferson on the latter.
 Also included is a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
," from "Pendulum".
 The album also includes the song "Love Me Like You Used To," which was later recorded by fellow country singer Tanya Tucker, and became a country hit for her.
 Following the release of this album and a duet album with Jennings in 1986, Cash moved to Mercury Records as a result of Columbia's fading interest in his music, though he later returned to Columbia for the second Highwaymen album.
Robert Levon Been (born August 22, 1978), previously known by the stage name Robert Turner, is an American musician and singer.
 He is currently a member of the rock band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and was, for a time, a bass player in a band known as The Beggars, going under the name 'Robert Locke'.
 He is the son of Michael Been of The Call, and appeared as bassist on his father's 1994 solo album, On the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough.
"Blue" is a song released in 1958 by Bill Mack, an American songwriter-country artist and country radio disc jockey.
 It has since been covered by several artists, in particular by country singer LeAnn Rimes, whose 1996 version became a hit.
 The song won Mack the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Country Song, a 1996 Academy of Country Music Award for Song of the Year, a 1997 Country Music Association Awards nomination for Song of the Year, a 1997 Country Radio Music Awards nomination for Song of the Year, and is included on the CMT list of the top 100 country songs of all time.
 Rimes' rendition won the 1996 Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
The Wrays, also known as The Wray Brothers Band, were an American country music group from Oregon composed of Bubba Wray, Jim Covert, Lynn Phillips and Joe Dale Cleghorn.
 Following two independent singles, The Wrays released a pair of singles on Mercury Records in the 1980s.
 Their highest charting single, "You Lay a Lotta Love on Me," reached the Top 50 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart in 1987.
 After The Wrays broke up, lead singer Bubba Wray launched a successful solo career as Collin Raye.
If We Make It Through December is the nineteenth studio album by American country singer Merle Haggard, released in 1974.
 It reached number 4 on the "Billboard" country album charts.
 The title track was previously released on Haggard's Christmas release of 1973, "A Christmas Present".
 The single spent four weeks at No. 1 on the "Billboard magazine" Hot Country Singles chart in December 1973 and January 1974, and cracked the Top 30 of the "Billboard" Hot 100. "
If We Make It Through December" was the No. 2 song of the year on "Billboard's" Hot Country Singles 1974 year-end chart.
"On the Verge" is a song written by Hugh Prestwood, and recorded by American country music artist Collin Raye.
 It was released in February 1997 as the sixth and final single from Raye's album "I Think About You".
 The song reached #2 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in May 1997.
"Wanted" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Hunter Hayes.
 It was released in March 2012 as the second single from his debut album "Hunter Hayes" (2011).
 Hayes co-wrote the song with Troy Verges.
 The song was nominated for Best Country Solo Performance at the 2013 Grammy Awards.
 It is the second best-selling song by a male solo country singer in the US as of April 2014.
 "Billboard" ranked it the third-greatest country single of all time according to chart performance.
Unchained Melody: The Early Years or simply The Early Years is a compilation album by American country singer LeAnn Rimes, released in the United States on February 11, 1997 (see 1997 in music) by Curb Records.
 Due to high sales of her debut album, "Blue", the album consists of tracks recorded previously to "Blue" (tracks one, two and five through nine were taken from Rimes' independent album, under Nor Va Jak label, "All That" (1994). "
Unchained Melody" (originally by The Righteous Brothers) was released on a single as a B-side track with "Put a Little Holiday in Your Heart" at Target stores during the 1996 Christmas season alongside Rimes' debut album.
 The album contains cover versions of "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" by Patsy Montana, "Blue Moon of Kentucky" by Bill Monroe, "I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton, "Yesterday" by The Beatles.
 The album has been certified 2× Platinum for shipments of two million copies in the United States.
Annie McGowan (born Rosan Gallimore, December 26, 1941 in Puryear, Tennessee, U.S.) is a country singer and songwriter under the stage name Rattlesnake Annie.
 She earned her nickname as a child from her respect of snakes.
 McGowan began recording music in 1974 and achieved success in Europe.
 She became the first female country musician to tour the Eastern Bloc countries in Europe and released an album with a country singer Michal Tučný from Czechoslovakia.
 In 1990, she became the first American country performer to sign a recording contract with Sony Music Japan.