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Ray Price hit Nashville in the early 1950s, rooming for a
short time with Hank Williams. When Williams died, Ray Price
took over his band, the Drifting Cowboys, and had minor success. He
was the first artist to have a hit with "Release Me" (1953), a song
made famous by Englebert Humperdinck in the early 1970s. Ray
Price developed the famous "Ray Price Shuffle Beat" that is heard
on "Crazy Arms", which served as the beat for many honky-tonk
classics since then.
In 1953, Ray Price formed his famous band, the Cherokee
Cowboys. Among its members in the late 1950s and early 1960s were
Roger Miller, Willie Nelson and Johnny Paycheck. In fact, Miller wrote
one of Ray Price's classics in 1958, "Invitation to the
Blues", and sang harmony on the recording. In addition, Nelson penned
the Ray Price classic, "Night Life".
Ray Price disappeared off the country music scene in the
1960s but emerged with another hit, the Kris Kristofferson classic, "For the Good Times".
The song featured a more mellow sound backed up by sophisticated
musical sounds, quite the opposite from the honky-tonk sounds Ray
Price pioneered two decades before. He continues to tour and
record today.
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