album · September 19, 2016
For The Good Times - A Tribute to Ray Price
Legacy RecordingsSee this day
countrysinger-songwriter
Nelson, a longtime friend and admirer of Ray Price, offers a heartfelt — if somewhat understated — tribute to the country music titan. The album showcases Nelson's familiar phrasing and guitar work on Price's well-worn standards.
- The album was recorded at Austin's Pedernales Studio with longtime Nelson producer Steve Chadie.
- It reached number 11 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart.
- Nelson and Price had a decades-long friendship, with Nelson having played in Price's Cherokee Cowboys band in the early 1960s.
Willie Nelson is a Texas-reared singer-songwriter and a foundational figure in outlaw country. He famously penned hits like "Crazy" and "Always on My Mind." This 2016 tribute album found Nelson revisiting the honky-tonk and Western swing of his early career, and the legendary honky-tonk singer Ray Price in particular.
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