The Essential Ray Price: 1951-1962 (CD) ~ Ray Price (Artist) Cover Art

The Essential Ray Price: 1951-1962 (CD)

By: Ray Price (Artist)

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Ray Price Artist Snapshot:

Texan country singer Ray Price got the best possible start by having Hank Williams himself for a mentor. After Williams's death, Price began using Hank's Drifting Cowboys as a backup band and performing in a remarkably similar style. After putting together a new band to find his own sound, he essentially invented the 4/4 country shuffle, replacing the traditional country 2/4 beat. This combination of honky-tonk and Western Swing both influenced a whole school of country and helped pave the way for rockabilly. Besides his voluminous body of solo work, Price was also known for his latter-day collaborations with Willie Nelson, whose "Night Life" had been an early-'60s Price hit.

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DISC 1 for The Essential Ray Price: 1951-1962 (CD) Album By Ray Price (Artist)
1   If You're Ever Lonely Darling  
2   Road of No Return, The  
3   Talk to Your Heart  
4   Move on in and Stay  
5   I'll Be There  
6   Release Me  
7   I Can't Go Home Like This  
8   You Done Me Wrong  
9   Falling Falling Falling  
10   Wasted Words  
11   Crazy Arms  
12   I've Got a New Heartache  
13   My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You  
14   Invitation to the Blues  
15   City Lights  
16   Heartaches by the Number  
17   Same Old Me, The  
18   One More Time  
19   Heart Over Mind  
20   Pride  
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (1/24/92, p.58) - "..a consumate balladeer [and] inventor of the "Ray Price beat"...proves the lasting influence of [Price].."

Title Note

The compilers at Columbia Records have put together a fantastic best-of collection with THE ESSENTIAL RAY PRICE. Taken from the first 11 years of Price's recording career, it displays the Texas singer at his finest. By the mid-1960s, Price had radically altered his approach to music, adopting a countrypolitan ballad style of singing, and leaving behind his honky-tonk roots, including his nasal Hank Williams-influenced vocal style.

However, THE ESSENTIAL RAY PRICE presents the country legend in his exciting honky-tonk years, making the music that would later be embraced so widely by the "New Traditionalists" in the '80s. Using Hank Williams's famous back-up band, the Drifting Cowboys, Price excels on "The Road of No Return," "Talk to Your Heart," and others. On these 20 tracks, the influence of Williams is evident, but there are also signs of an innovative artist beginning to bloom. Programmed in chronological order, the collection reveals the changes in Price's singing style as the disc plays out. Towards the end of the compilation, particularly on "Heart over Mind" and "Pride," Price's voice deepens, losing much of its twang, but gaining a smoky maturity.

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