I don't think it's a water issue. Raspberries can be prone to root rot, but what you're seeing isn't the symptoms of that. I find raspberries like loose well drained soil and struggle when directly planted in heavier soils that have a good amount of clay.

It's hard to see from the picture but isn't that a cane that fruited last year? There should be new raspberry shoots coming up from the ground.

the cane on the left actually is dead and all the shoots were new last year since I just planted them from root stock.

If those canes came out of the ground last year and fruited you should cut them of at the ground. In the future cut them as soon as all the fruit is picked off.

@melikeeatplants, all my raspberry plants are planted in clay type of soil and the plants love the soil. No problem at all with clay soil. This is only my 2nd year and a lot of new canes come out of ground, just so many.

My Fall Gold, Baba & Heritage just finished fruiting so here are a couple pictures of the cane that didn't bud out of the lower branches, these plants were planted last year in June from root stock plants and didn't fruit last year.

Any idea way these buds didn't fruit on the lower half? I watered these plants every 2-3 days last year in the 80-90 degrees, I didn't really water them this winter, had about 3" mulched leaves around the plants, I planted them with nice soil and I didn't fertilize this spring maybe that's it? There are a lot of tree roots in this area as well.