The Essential Ray Price (CD)

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• Release Date: April 24, 2007
• Label: Columbia (USA)
• UPC: 827969456224
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106376814
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #19899 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #125648 in Country (See Top 100 Country Bestsellers)
• #426 in General/Country (See Top 100 General/Country Bestsellers)

Personnel: Ray Price (guitar); Clay Allen, Lefty Perkins, Spider Wilson, Donny Lytle, Art Bishop, Darrell McCall, Grady Martin, Hank Cochran, Jerry Kennedy, Jody Payne, Leon Rhodes, Pete Wade, Ray Edenton, Rusty Gabbard, Tommy Williams, Ray Sanders, Buddy Griffin (guitar); Chet Atkins, Sammy Pruett (electric guitar); George McCoy, Jack Evins, Don Helms, Jimmy Day, Paul Blunt, Pete Drake, Walter Haynes, Eddie Martin, Buddy Emmons (steel guitar); Marvin Montgomery (mandolin); Carroll Hubbard, Jim Belkin, Georgia Slim Rutland, Dale Potter, Jerry Rivers, Johnny Gimble, Shorty Lavender, Tommy Jackson, Cecil Brower, Buddy Spicher (fiddle); Hi 'Highpockets' Busse (accordion); Fred Burkhalter, Floyd Cramer, Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Leon Russell, Marvin Hughes, Bill Pursell (piano); Blondie Calderon (keyboards); Joe Zinkan, Bob Moore (acoustic bass); Chris Etheridge, Red Kidwell, Floyd 'Lightnin'' Chance, Howard Watts, Don Poole, Harold Bradley, Bee Spears, Buddy Killen, Bob Keller (bass guitar); Doug Kirkham, Steve Bess, Bob Preston, Jan Kurtis, Paul English, Farris Coursey, Willie Ackerman, Buddy Harman (drums); Farrell Morris (percussion); Van Howard, Crystal Gayle (background vocals).

Additional personnel: Willie Nelson (vocals).

This double-CD best-of displays the Texas singer Ray Price at his early best. By the mid-1960s, Price had radically altered his approach, 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 country music's 1980s New Traditionalists. Backed by Hank Williams's Drifting Cowboys, Price excels on classics such as "The Road of No Return," "Heartaches By the Number," and "Talk to Your Heart." Though Williams's influence is evident throughout, cuts such as "The Same Old Me" show the beginnings of Price's unique, innovative style.

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