Album Info

The Essential Ray Price

Country - 2007

In the early fifties Ray Price was one of a handful of country bred pioneers who determinedly dragged hardcore honky-tonk,... more

Tracklist

1

Jealous Lies

--:-- min
2

If You're Ever Lonely Darling

2:32 min
3

Weary Blues (From Waiting)

2:59 min
4

Talk to Your Heart

2:41 min
5

Release Me

2:41 min
6

I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)

2:26 min
7

Crazy Arms

2:30 min
8

You Done Me Wrong

2:22 min
9

Wasted Words

2:39 min
10

I've Got a New Heartache

2:42 min
11

My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You (Single Version)

2:33 min
12

Curtain In the Window

2:31 min
13

Invitation to the Blues (Single Version)

2:47 min
14

City Lights (Single Version)

2:57 min
15

Heartaches By the Number

2:57 min
16

The Same Old Me

2:42 min
17

One More Time

2:45 min
18

I Wish I Could Fall In Love Today

2:38 min
19

Heart Over Mind

2:41 min
20

Soft Rain

2:45 min
1

San Antonio Rose

3:20 min
2

I've Just Destroyed the World (I'm Living In)

2:20 min
3

Pride

2:35 min
4

Walk Me to the Door

3:05 min
5

Night Life

4:44 min
6

Make the World Go Away

2:32 min
7

Burning Memories

2:29 min
8

The Other Woman (In My Life)

2:57 min
9

Don't You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me

2:45 min
10

A Way to Survive (Single Version)

3:00 min
11

I'm Still Not Over You

4:00 min
12

I Let My Mind Wander

2:35 min
13

Danny Boy (Single Version)

4:59 min
14

She Wears My Ring

3:16 min
15

You Wouldn't Know Love

2:55 min
16

For the Good Times (Single Version)

3:47 min
17

I Won't Mention It Again

3:40 min
18

I'd Rather Be Sorry

2:46 min
19

You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me

3:48 min
20

Faded Love (with Ray Price)

3:47 min

About The Essential Ray Price

In the early fifties Ray Price was one of a handful of country bred pioneers who determinedly dragged hardcore honky-tonk, with its working class tales of bar-room violence, broken hearts, and hard times, into the cultural mainstream. Along with George Jones and Hank Williams he used sophisticated arrangements and crack instrumentalists to reawaken the mainstream to the pathos and artistry inherent in hillbilly music. But if early, rough hewn ‘50s hits like “Heartache by the Numbers” and “My Feet Keep Walking Back to You” helped to make Ray Price a star few fans of his early work could have anticipated the dramatic, and trend setting changes that Price would undergo in the following decade, when polished, string laden hits like “Nightlife” and “I’m Still Not Over You” would define the uptown sophistication of the burgeoning countrypolitan genre. It’s extraordinarily difficult to encapsulate a career as stylistically diverse and influential as Price’s in a single compilation, but the forty track Essential Ray Price serves as a fine introduction to one of the greatest vocal stylists of the twentieth century. Anyone with even a passing interest in country music ought to be familiar with Price and his work.