Ray Price

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Just sittin' here whittlin' with an old old Case stockman listenin' to Ray Price croon while I cry
 
I came to Ray Price via my main man Willie Nelson, his old runnin' buddy. What a great great voice and body of work. Smooth as the finest single-barrel bourbon! He shall be missed. :(

-- Mark
 
My father was taken aback when I asked who Ray Price was, and even more shocked to find out that he had died. I've listened to a few songs, wish I would have listened to him earlier.
 
His cover of Willie Nelson's Night Life, is an awesome country song, one of my favorites. So sad , but he lived a long, good life. Way better, than top 40 "country" stuff my generation is obsessed with.
 
whetrock said:
His cover of Willie Nelson's Night Life, is an awesome country song, one of my favorites. So sad , but he lived a long, good life. Way better, than top 40 "country" stuff my generation is obsessed with.
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You got that right. Most of Country today is just pop with a little twang. Get yourself a copy of the duet CD he did with Willie Nelson, it is great.
 
Willie actually used to play bass in Ray's first band. Ray recorded the very first honky tonk song to my knowledge. He was also instrumental for bringing in string sections on country record dates.
 
My first music machine was a portable, mono, 8-Track player and with it I got one tape. Ray Price.

One thing I always found appealing with Ray Price was that fact that he had great enunciation. No twang or shortened words. Just a rich voice and clear lyrics.

Don't worry Dan, you should have seen the looks and heard he silence from some of guys when a fellow in his 20s we worked with responded to a conversation were were having by saying, "Who's Raquel Welch?" Nearly as bad as the guy once asked who John Wayne was.

I better dig out one of my worry stone slippies, put on some old music, and rub away. As Garth Brooks sings in my theme song, "I'm much to young to feel this damned old."
 
Threads in the main Traditional Forum have to be about knives. Moving to Community...

 
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Talk about pedigree, HANK WILLIAMS wrote a song for Ray ("Weary Blues from Waiting"), and the two lived together for awhile!
 
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