Stan Kenton - Tequila
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Stan Kenton - Rock & Roller
Stan Kenton - Tequila
Monday, April 30, 2012
An Interview With Ray Price
Ray Price Interview - Side One (7:45)
Ray Price Interview - Side Two (6:14)
Interspersed with some sound clips from Ray's records, here's an interview with the man himself. Listen in as he reflects upon his quest for vocal perfection, his technique, and his general approach to his career.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
A Better Class Of Losers
Ray Price - A Better Class Of Losers (3:14)
Here's a 45 from a bit later in Ray's career, 1986, after the big hits stopped coming. As you can hear though, only Ray was suffering, not the music itself.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Swingin' Doors
Ray Price - Swingin' Doors (3:02)
Tonight's agenda? Seeing Merle Haggard at the Macon City Auditorium, built in 1925 and mere blocks away from where Little Richard used to wash dishes at the Greyhound bus station. So with that in mind, here's Ray's version of one of Merle's signature tunes.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Ray Price - Just Call Me Lonesome
Ray Price - Just Call Me Lonesome (2:30)
Just Call Me Lonesome was made famous when Eddie Arnold's recording of it went to #2 on the country charts in 1955. Ray's desperately sad version came out ten years later, on his LP The Other Woman. In the picture, Miami country DJ Cracker Jim Brooker poses for a shot alongside Price.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Saturday Night Dance Party
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| "The Admiral" photo by Jimmy Fountain |
Tune in to "Live From The Admiral" every Saturday night from 11 PM until with your hosts Dr. Filth and Greg Cartwright. Archived shows here.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
San Antonio Rose - Ray Price
Ray Price - San Antonio Rose (3:21)
Here's the title track to Ray's outstanding Bob Wills tribute LP San Antonio Rose, released in 1961. That's Jimmy Day on steel and Tommy Jackson on the fiddle.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The 24th Hour (Ray Price MP3)
Ray Price - The Twenty-Fourth Hour
Sometimes Ray would go hunting or fishing to take his mind off his endless romantic woes.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Monday, April 9, 2012
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Ray Price Month
Ray Price - Walking Slow (And Thinking 'Bout Her)
Image courtesy of Pure Country: The Leon Kagarise Archives, 1961 - 1971.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Kissing Your Picture (MP3)
Ray Price - Kissing Your Picture (2:41)
From 1959, here's Ray Price achieving honky-tonk perfection with a song written by Wayne Walker and Mel Tillis.
In the photo: Ray strikes a pose with his fiddle player, Shorty Lavender (on the left) and his manager, Hubert Long (on the right).
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
The Ballad Of Roger Miller
Homer & Jethro - The Ballad Of Roger Miller (2:33)
You know you've really made it when Homer & Jethro point their satirical daggers at you.
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