Ray Price Month!

Heartaches By the Numbers

I'm Not Crazy Yet (MP3)

Ray Price - I'm Not Crazy Yet

My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You

Ray Price, king of the honky-tonks.

Thanks to Gatorrock787 for having such a great YouTube channel, currently featuring 1,542 clips of outstanding quality.

Heartaches By The Number

Ray Price  -  Heartaches By The Number

That's What It's Like To Be Lonesome

Cal Smith - That's What It's Like To Be Lonesome

Cal Smith, rhythm guitar player for Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours for much of the 1960s, nailed the Ray Price sound on this morbidly delightful 1971 effort.

Sittin' & Thinkin'

Ray Price - Sittin' & Thinking

Crime Stoppers Atlanta

Red Dodge Nitro

Our dear pal and Ichiban co-founder, Greg G was the victim of a horrific hit and run on his bicycle this week in Atlanta, Georgia.  He is in stable but critical condition in the ICU at Grady Hospital.  Please keep him in your thoughts for a speedy recovery.  If you know anyone that lives in Georgia, please send them a link to this story.  The driver is still at large and there is a Reward fund that you can donate to.  If you'd like to send get well greetings, email ghostwave@comcast.net.

Ray Price - Invitation To The Blues (2:51)

Happy Valentine's Day!

From Rex - Patience And Prudence - Tonight You Belong To Me (45s)
From Jimmy - The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You
From Devlin - Webb Pierce - I Don't Care
From Greg G - Ray Price - Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes
From Kogar - The Phantom - Whisper Your Love
From SShark - Ronnie Hawkins And The Hawks - Southern Love
From Jukeboxmafia - Otis Redding - These Arms Of Mine
From Debbie D - Arthur Alexander - Another Place, Another Time
From Spazz - Conway Twitty - You've Never Been This Far Before

Bonus Fool's Paradise VD Message:
Groundhog - Take It Off

Bright Lights & Blonde Haired Women

Ray Price  -  Bright Lights And Blonde Haired Women  (2:22)

For The Good Times

Ray Price made this Kris Kristofferson song a hit.  Here's Al Green's version.

The Hot Rod Jordanaires

 
Jordanaires  -  Malibu Run  (2:04)

Recently, while scrounging for 45s out in the Atlanta suburbs I found this mystifying head-scratcher by the Jordanaires.  Who would've figured these tame but talented background vocalists for Rip Chords wannabes with a passion for hot rod sounds?  Certainly not I.  And how about the fact that this extraordinarily unlikely disc was produced by Don Law and Frank Jones, Columbia's in-house go-to guys for classic Nashville country sounds by people like Ray Price, Carl Butler and Pearl, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Lefty Frizzell and others.  And I have no idea who author R. Wilkins is but I wonder if he's somehow related to Bucky Wilkin (no "s" at the end) who wrote and recorded a substantial body of hot rod work in Nashville as a member of Ronny & The Daytonas. 

I Lie A Lot

Ray Price - I Lie A Lot

Doug Sahm - I'll Be There

Sir Douglas Band  -  I'll Be There

Doug tips his cap to one of the all-time Texas greats, Ray Price....

Photo: Huey Meaux and Doug Sahm in the studio.

Don't You Believe Her (MP3)

Ray Price - Don't You Believe Her (2:37)

Same Old Me

Ray Price - Same Old Me

Imagination's A Wonderful Thing

Fifty years ago today, on 7/13/61, Ray Price recorded Imagination's A Wonderful Thing in Nashville.

Country A Go-Go

 

With Debbie D

Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs - Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’

Lawrence Welk - Gentle On My Mind

Freddie Hart - Snatch It and Grab It

Barbara Pittman - Handsome Man

Rose Maddox - Wild Wild Young Men

Sir Douglas Quintet - She’s About A Mover

Jerry Reed - Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right

Bobby Smith and The Boys From Shiloh - Tractor For Sale

Cal Smith - The Lord Knows I’m Drinking

Merle Travis - Merle’s Boogie Woogie

Johnny Horton - Lover’s Rock

The Collins Kids - Hop Skip and Jump

Cliff Carlisle - You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone

Bill Justis - Raunchy

Charlie Rich - Another Place I Can’t Go

Lefty Frizzell - Just Can’t Live That Fast (Any More)

Buddy Holly - Blue Days, Black Nights

Marvin Rainwater - Gotta Go Get My Baby

Rusty Adams - Hippie From Mississippi

Thumbs Carllile - Candy Girl

Roger Miller - A World So Full Of Love

Ernest Tubb - Half A Mind

Faron Young - That’s The Way I Feel

Ray Price - Invitation To The Blues

George Jones - Nothing Can Stop

Jim & Jesse - Farewell Blues

Happy Hour 45rpm (MP3)

Tony Booth - Happy Hour (2:34)

Honky-tonker Tony Booth released a string of top notch hard country LPs in the early 1970s. Those of you who dig the classic Ray Price shuffle sound will surely enjoy this track. More information about Booth can be found at his Wikepedia page. Booth stills plays gigs with some frequency, mostly around Texas so check out his calendar if you're so inclined.

Heart

 

With Mark Ehmcke

1. Heart - Rockpile

2. My Heart Skips A Beat - Buck Owens

3. Ruler Of My Heart - Irma Thomas

4. Devil In His Heart - The Donays

5. Your Cheatin' Heart - Hank Williams

6. Someone Else's Heart - Squeeze

7. Can't You Hear My Heartbeat - Herman's Hermits

8. Pain In My Heart - Otis Redding

9. Heartaches - Ted Weems

10. My Heart Belongs To Daddy - Eartha Kitt

11. In My Heart - Barbara and the Browns

12. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart - Cher

13. (I Thought I Heard A) Heartbeat - The Inmates

14. Queen Of Hearts - Dave Edmunds

15. Heartaches By The Numbers - Ray Price

16. Piece Of My Heart - Erma Franklin

17. Haunted Heart - Connie Smith

18. Cold Cold Heart - Jerry Lee Lewis

19. This Old Heart Of Mine - The Zombies

20. Heart's Desire - Billy Joe Royal

21. Heart-O-Matic Love - Bo Diddley

22. Defrost Your Heart - Charlie Feathers

23. That's What My Heart Needs - Otis Redding

24. Out Of My Heart - Donnie Owens

25. How Much Love Can One Heart Hold - Joe Perkins

Take These Chains From My Heart (MP3)

Ray Price  -  Take These Chains From My Heart  (2:25)