Ray Price

RAY PRICE
 
 
Ray Price  (January 12, 1926 – December 16, 2013) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist.  His wide ranging baritone has often been praised as among the best male voices of country music.  Some of his well-known recordings include “Release Me”, “Crazy Arms”, “Heartaches by the Number”, “For the Good Times”, “Night Life”, and “You’re the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me”.  He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996.  Price continued to record and tour well into his mid-eighties.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

Kris Kristofferson is probably better known as a songwriter – such as Janis Joplin’s posthumous hit song, “Me and Bobby McGee”, plus “For the Good Times” (a hit by Ray Price, among others), “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down” (recorded by Johnny Cash) and “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (Sammi Smith’s version being the most successful), which were all #1 hits on one Billboard or Canadian chart or other – or as an actor in dozens of films, such as Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, A Star Is Born, the Blade films, and The Motel Life.  He has a rough-and-tumble reputation as a hard-liver, and in part, that fuels his interest in spiritual matters.  Jesus has clearly been on his mind over the years; his album names include Jesus Was a Capricorn (simply an observation that Christmas Day falls within that astrological sign). 

 

(July 2014)

 

Last edited: March 22, 2021