Ray Price celebrates 83rd birthday
Monday, January 5, 2009 – Ray Price will celebrate his 83rd birthday, Monday, Jan. 12 with a party at the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame and Tex Ritter Museum in Carthage, Texas. The public is invited to join the festivities.
The country singer retains an active touring schedule. Two years ago, he released "Last of The Breed" with friends Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson and toured behind the CD.
More news for Ray Price
- 04/15/14: Price offers final release
- 12/16/13: Ray Price dies at 87
- 12/15/13: Reports of Price death premature, but singer is failing
- 03/20/07: Haggard/Nelson/Price and Skaggs/Hornsby release new discs
- 01/19/07: The Hag, Willie and Ray Price join forces
CD reviews for Ray Price
On Dec. 16, 2013, Ray Price, succumbed to pancreatic cancer, and the world lost yet another great musician who during his career had helped change the face of country music. In the 1950s, the Cherokee Cowboy (he formed the Cherokee Cowboys in 1953, and Roger Miller, Buddy Emmons, Willie Nelson, Johnny Paycheck, and Buddy Spicher, among others, were members of the band) developed the sound that became known as the "Ray Price shuffle," which most famously can be heard on his hit ...
Fans of Ray Price's classics hardcore honky-tonk recordings of the '50s' and '60s have been hoping for one last return to form for quite a few years now - decades, actually - from the man who more or less created the style. And in spite of Price's legendary stubbornness, that return has finally come. Backed by a group of Nashville A-team studio vets, Price has finally abandoned the orchestra this time out for a long-overdue collection of shuffles, western swing and ballads like few other can deliver. ...
In spite of some fans' hopes that Ray Price would turn in one last great honky-tonk album, Price continues to mine the heavily orchestrated blend of country and pop that has dominated his career since 1967's "Danny Boy." In fact, the opening lines of the re-recording of Harlan Howard's terrific "Better Class of Losers" (which opens the album) could well be interpreted by some as a pointed message from Price to fans of his groundbreaking honky-tonk recordings of the '50's and '60's:
"I said I'm ...
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