Rosanne Cash’s new album, The River & ZThe Sea, is now streaming at NPR’s “First Listen.”
From the NPR website:
Each song is rooted in the Southern soil connecting the old Cash homestead in Arkansas to the family’s ancestral Virginia homeland, expanding to survey the family’s artistic roots in Alabama and Tennessee. Some narratives are fictional, while others mine family lore. Each unfolds in a subtle arc made three-dimensional by Cash’s introspective lyrics and the genre-dissolving blend of country, soul and torch songs that she and her husband and producer, John Leventhal, cultivate.
After suffering with pancreatic cancer for more than a year, country great Ray Price died today at 4:30 PM CST, according to his associate, Bill Mack.
Mack posted on his Facebook page that Price’s wife Janie Price had called him this afternoon:
“JANIE JUST CALLED ME:
RAY PRICE LEFT FOR HEAVEN AT 4:43 PM CENTRAL TIME. HE WENT IN PERFECT PEACE. DETAILS LATER. JANIE AND THE FAMILY SO GRATEFUL FOR YOUR PRAYERS. RAY’S BODY WILL BE RECEIVED AT RESTLAND FUNERAL HOME IN DALLAS.”
Below is the obit I ran yesterday after Price’s son mistakenly posted on his Facebook page that his father was dead.
Country singer Ray Price, who scored #1 country hits including “Crazy Arms,” “My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You,” and “The Same Old Me,” died today at age 87 at his home in Mt. Pleasant, Texas. Price had been suffering complications from pancreatic cancer since late last year.
In addition to charting in the country top 10 (beginning with “Talk To Your Heart” in 1952), for over 30 years, Price is known for his baritone voice and for pioneering the honky-tonk sound still heard in some country music.
For an in-depth look at Ray Price’s career, check out this article in The Tennessean.
Ray Price performs his first #1 hit, “Crazy Arms,” in 1956 at the Ryman Auditorium.
“My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You,” 1957:
“Heartaches By the Numbers,” 1959:
-– A Days of the Crazy-Wild blog post: sounds, visuals and/or news –-
Despite earlier reports, Ray Price is still alive, though he is very ill with pancreatic cancer. His son mistakenly posted on Facebook that his father was dead.
Price’s wife, Janie Price, told The Tennessean he is alive.
Price’s wife Janie posted on Facebook: “At this time our loveable Ray Price is still with. us. When it is the time there will be a official statement.”
Bill Mack, who works with Ray Price, posted this: I just completed a telephone call with Janie Price at 10:15PM, Central. She said Ray’s condition is still in a “coma” mode, is not expected to improve. However, I will have my phone next to the bed constantly … if I decide to “crash-out”. She, or someone at the house, will call if there are any changes that need to be posted. I have spoken with so many of Ray’s peers, all so concerned about the “Chief”. That, and the hundreds of responses from you people, has made me realize the true value of friends. Yes, it’s been a day filled with hurt, but for a purpose: Love, concern … and prayers for Ray’s family. God bless you, thanks.
Below the obit I posted earlier, which is premature. However you still might want to check out the some of Price’s hits, which I’ve posted.
Country singer Ray Price, who scored #1 country hits including “Crazy Arms,” “My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You,” and “The Same Old Me,” died today at age 87 at his home in Mt. Pleasant, Texas. Price had been suffering complications from pancreatic cancer since late last year.
In addition to charting in the country top 10 (beginning with “Talk To Your Heart” in 1952), for over 30 years, Price is known for his baritone voice and for pioneering the honky-tonk sound still heard in some country music.
For an in-depth look at Ray Price’s career, check out this article in The Tennessean.
Ray Price performs his first #1 hit, “Crazy Arms,” in 1956 at the Ryman Auditorium.
“My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You,” 1957:
“Heartaches By the Numbers,” 1959:
-– A Days of the Crazy-Wild blog post: sounds, visuals and/or news –-
Shelby Lynne has a new EP called “Thanks” due December 10, 2013. This one is from that EP.
Here’s what Lynne herself says about the song and the video on the Huffington Post site:
“I had the song in my head and I was ready to go as soon as I walked into the studio door. Maxine Waters was with me, the guys had already made their way over, not knowing what to expect. I didn’t either really because I had never met Ed Maxwell on bass, and Michael Jerome was set to play the drums, had never met him either. Ben Peeler was my lead man. I told him I wanted to record some gospel tunes in the desert, when could he hand-pick some players and get them over there, I’d be ready with songs in hand. He was the man responsible for pulling together the heads for this recording.
“Maxine and I walked in the door to these handsome, smiling faces, introductions were made. I had Stella on my back because I had carried her in that way from the Jeep. She is my 1920’s acoustic guitar I bought in Tucson not too long ago. She would be the fitting rhythm for this tune. It needed to jump! Jump! So while we were all standing around about to get too comfortable I reached around and pulled Stella to my front, and said “Fellas, lets hit a little of this.” Jason Harter and I have worked together for years enough to know how I roll. I don’t want to see a camera, I never do do-overs and LIVE is my WAY. Whatever happens is suppose to happen and there you have it.
“So he was rolling video, tape, digital, whatever they call it now, when we walked in the door. By the middle of the second pass, I stopped and told engineer Grady Price ‘Let’s get RED…let’s cut it now before we lose it.’ So what you see here is our little video that Jason put together with what he gathered during the actual recording of the song ‘Call Me Up.’ That day, that minute, those very seconds, I told Jason that if this video had cost a million dollars, I wouldn’t have liked it as much. Cheers and peace!”
