Rayburn’s  association with Bobby Bare led to his signing with Polydor, a major record company of the day. When there was a shake-up at the label he moved to Mercury Records.

Rayburn has recorded for a variety of labels including Mega, Stop, Polydor and Mercury. His many chart records include "Maybe I Should Have Been Listening" and "Shadows Of Love." On Mercury he was produced by Jerry Kennedy and once had Reba McEntyre singing on one of his tracks "Easy." While on Stop Records he had "A Hundred Yards Of Real Estate" recorded by the Jordanaires on their album "Monsters". This album was later released in Britain on Ember Records with some additional tracks.

He has toured many countries working as a front man for Billy Walker and Bobby Bare and is very popular in Sweden where he continues to tour several weeks each year. Rayburn has released 5 cd's in Sweden.
 

Rayburn and W. S. Holland renewed their musical connection when they played together at the Jackson Rockabilly Festival in April 2000 . Rayburn singing "St. Louis Blues" from his Sun days and a new song "Jackson Was Jumping" which mentions friends like W.S., Tony Austin, Kenny Parchman, Carl Mann and the Perkins band. Later they played together on a Sun TV documentary jamming with Scotty and Sonny Burgess. They also did  some additional TV and concert work in Arkansas. They appeared together again at the 2001 Jackson Festival working this time as the Rockabilly Masters with Larry Donn , C. W. Gatlin and Burl Boykin. The group would like to work on the road together in Europe.

While on a trip to Sweden Rayburn recorded an album using 1950’s vintage equipment with all the session musicians playing together and no overdubs. The album was titled "Jackson Was Jumpin" the title of one of the album’s songs that gives Jackson, Tennessee some of the credit for the rockabilly explosion of the fifties with name checks for Rayburn's friends and fellow artists.

Rayburn's Sun recordings have been released on several compilations by Charly and Bear Family Records.He has also released two cd's on Rhythm Bomb "My Baby's Car Crazy" and "Big Bad City".

Today, Rayburn remains active in his music career traveling and playing his unique style of music that has endeared fans to his music for decades.