Long Live Legends
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Following on from my post about George Jones and what he thinks of todays country music, comes this post on Ray Price.
I read this article from the Bismarck Tribune today, from June this year. It's a pretty good article and it's great to see that newspaper people still take the time to talk to performers of Rays' age. At 80 years of age, Ray Price is still performing, I'll be lucky if I'm still walking.Anyway, those of you who have been keeping up with my thoughts on current country music will know how little I respect it, but adore country music 'styles' from past years.Anyway, here's a quote from the article .."The current state of country music is just fine, but it's being denied to the public", Price said Tuesday from his tour bus in Gillette, Wyo. "The stuff you hear that they call country now is nowhere near country. Anyone who knows the history of the music knows that."Price, a country music hall-of-famer now in his sixth decade of performing, will stay true to his genre's roots at two shows in Bismarck this week. He'll play at the Belle Mehus City Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and 8 p.m. Friday.At 80 years old, Price is rambunctious as ever. The man who made a career out of a honky-tonk sound is still happiest on stage."I'm just being me, I guess," he said. "I enjoy it, and have for a long time. I'm doing what I was born to do."A native Texan, Price cut his teeth at the clubs in Dallas. He caught his biggest break in 1952, when Hank Williams invited him to sing at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tenn. Between 1952 and 1989, Price charted 108 songs, including eight No. 1 hits. "Crazy Arms," "Make the World Go Away," "Night Life" and many other hits made a star of Price and his Cherokee Cowboys band. Among the members of the band over the years have been Willie Nelson, Roger Miller and Johnny PayCheck.Miller and PayCheck are gone now, along with many revered names from the old guard of country music.Here's the URL to the story - http://www.bismarktribune.com/articles/2006/09/06/news/local/120312.txtI applaud the Bismarck and the author for this story for two reasons. 1 - Because as I said, Ray Price, yes he's a great legend, but he doesn't make the headlines these days, so it's a gutsy thing to ask the editor to include.2 - In the article they mention Johnny PayCheck. You may notice the spelling or capitilisation of PayCheck in the article. It is correct.
Johnny changed it to PayCheck from Paycheck some few years before his death from memory.So congratualtions Tony Spilde from the Bismarck Tribune. Great work."..leave if you'd rather not loose what you came for, walk out the same door that I let you in, leave if you'd rather not loose what you came with, stay and you'll find this is where love begins.."- Gene Watson.
I read this article from the Bismarck Tribune today, from June this year. It's a pretty good article and it's great to see that newspaper people still take the time to talk to performers of Rays' age. At 80 years of age, Ray Price is still performing, I'll be lucky if I'm still walking.Anyway, those of you who have been keeping up with my thoughts on current country music will know how little I respect it, but adore country music 'styles' from past years.Anyway, here's a quote from the article .."The current state of country music is just fine, but it's being denied to the public", Price said Tuesday from his tour bus in Gillette, Wyo. "The stuff you hear that they call country now is nowhere near country. Anyone who knows the history of the music knows that."Price, a country music hall-of-famer now in his sixth decade of performing, will stay true to his genre's roots at two shows in Bismarck this week. He'll play at the Belle Mehus City Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and 8 p.m. Friday.At 80 years old, Price is rambunctious as ever. The man who made a career out of a honky-tonk sound is still happiest on stage."I'm just being me, I guess," he said. "I enjoy it, and have for a long time. I'm doing what I was born to do."A native Texan, Price cut his teeth at the clubs in Dallas. He caught his biggest break in 1952, when Hank Williams invited him to sing at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tenn. Between 1952 and 1989, Price charted 108 songs, including eight No. 1 hits. "Crazy Arms," "Make the World Go Away," "Night Life" and many other hits made a star of Price and his Cherokee Cowboys band. Among the members of the band over the years have been Willie Nelson, Roger Miller and Johnny PayCheck.Miller and PayCheck are gone now, along with many revered names from the old guard of country music.Here's the URL to the story - http://www.bismarktribune.com/articles/2006/09/06/news/local/120312.txtI applaud the Bismarck and the author for this story for two reasons. 1 - Because as I said, Ray Price, yes he's a great legend, but he doesn't make the headlines these days, so it's a gutsy thing to ask the editor to include.2 - In the article they mention Johnny PayCheck. You may notice the spelling or capitilisation of PayCheck in the article. It is correct.Johnny changed it to PayCheck from Paycheck some few years before his death from memory.So congratualtions Tony Spilde from the Bismarck Tribune. Great work."..leave if you'd rather not loose what you came for, walk out the same door that I let you in, leave if you'd rather not loose what you came with, stay and you'll find this is where love begins.."- Gene Watson.
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