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Ray Price
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Born
January 12, 1926 in Perryville, TX

Years Active:
50s | 60s | 70s | 80s | 90s | Current

 
Ray Price has covered -- and kicked up -- as much musical turf as any country singer of the postwar era. He's been lionized as the man who saved hard country when Nashville went pop, and vilified as the man who went pop when hard country was starting to call its own name with pride. Actually, he was -- and still is -- no more than a musically ambitious singer, always looking for the next challenge for a voice that could bring down roadhouse walls. Circa 1949, Price cut his first record for Bullet at the Famous Jim Beck in Dallas. ...
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Influences
Hank Williams Bob Wills Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

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