Artist: Ray Price
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #69 May-June 2007
Ray Price / Willie Nelson / Ray Price – Backyard (Austin, TX)
When they brought his birthday cake onstage, Asleep At The Wheel bandleader Ray Benson couldn’t resist the chance to be disrespectful to his elders. “I’m the youngest guy out here!” he crowed, and, at age 56, he wasn’t kidding. Benson and the rest of the Wheel were serving as the backing band for Ray Price, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #68 Mar-Apr 2007
Willie Nelson / Merle Haggard / Ray Price – Last Of The Breed Vol 1 & Vol 2
Beyond the accurate (if somewhat pretentious) title of this two-CD set is a fetching homage to Texas music by three icons — two Texans and one Bakersfielder whose music is so steeped in Texas he might as well be a native. The concept’s certainly not new. Haggard and Price each have previously recorded albums with [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #47 Sept-Oct 2003
Willie Nelson & Ray Price – Run That By Me One More Time
Ray Price’s greatest commercial success came in the late 1960s, riding the fading swell of the countrypolitan sound that emerged out of Nashville studios in the late ’50s and threatened to take what was then known as country & western music into the larger realm of pop. From the outside looking in, countrypolitan was an [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #47 Sept-Oct 2003
Willie Nelson / Willie Nelson & Family / Willie Nelson & Ray Price
Pablo Picasso spent a day in 1956 painting for the cameras of Henri-Georgess Clouzet, his twenty canvases destroyed — by agreement — as filming of the 78-minute documentary The Mystery Of Picasso ended. Each brush stroke speaks of unbearable confidence and supreme skill, a single line suggesting one object, the next line — and the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #42 Nov-Dec 2002
Ray Price – Time
While George Jones and Merle Haggard have found a whole new fan base among contemporary generations, Ray Price, a similarly monumental and influential country artist, has worked in recent years on a much more low-key level that, deliberately or not, has avoided the spotlight. But he’s not been quiet. In fact, as shown on his [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #27 May-June 2000
Ray Price – Burning Memories
There’s no difference between singing a country song in a western suit and then going around behind the curtain and walking out the other side with a tux on and singing the same country song with a pop arrangement. It’s the same thing. Ray Price Before he took the stage of Central Missouri State University’s [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #16 July-Aug 1998
Ray Price – The Other Woman
Ray Price’s chart career usually gets talked about as if it has two distinct periods. First there are the great honky-tonk years that included masterpiece singles such as “Crazy Arms”, and then there’s his crappy, post-”Danny Boy” countrypolitan hits like “For The Good Times”. Leaving aside that a fair number of those countrypolitan recordings were [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #15 May-June 1998
Ray Price – Little Nashville Opry (Nashville, IN)
Former Columbia Records chief Don Law rejected Ray Price 20 times before finally signing him in 1951. Nearly a half-century later, the country crooner had no problem hooking the 500 folks at the Little Nashville Opry and reeling them in one-by-one. Unveiling an 11-piece band, which included pedal steel, piano and a violin quartet, Price [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #6 Nov-Dec 1996
Ray Price – Night Life
One of the best things about neotradionlists such as the Derailers and Dale Watson is that they present an opportunity to learn about the people who inspired them. There seems to be no end to the worshipping of honky-tonk legends, from well known masters such as George Jones, Merle Haggard and Buck Owens to the [...]
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