The Scotsman has called her "perhaps the best-known Scots folksinger of her generation",[1] and The Guardian, "one of Britain's great interpreters of traditional song".
[2] She was educated at Hyndland Secondary School, as was her brother Archie, and it was where she met Hamish Imlach,[4] followed by Jordanhill Teacher Training College.
[1] They were regulars at Norman Buchan's Glasgow Ballads Club, and it was through Buchan and his wife Janie, that Ray met Jeannie Robertson, who invited her to stay in Aberdeen, where she then spent six weeks learning about traditional Scottish folk songs.
[1] She was a familiar bespectacled face on television music programmes, and appeared on BBC's Jools' Annual Hootenanny and STV's Here and Now.
[1] Fisher released only three solo albums, The Bonny Birdie (1972), Willie's Lady (1982), and Traditional Songs of Scotland (1991).