Okay, back to the shellac. Here's a couple of early Ray Price records. The first one is a Hank Williamsesque hardcore honky tonk number, "You Always Get By," from 1953. Hank helped Ray Price early in his career, sharing his band on the road and giving him "Weary Blues (From Waiting) to record, as well as getting him onto the Opry.
A few weeks ago Chris at Locust St. published another epic post. This one on Walking. As great as it is, it didn't feature my favorite song about the powerlessness of a man being tugged back to a woman by an inanimate object despite his own best intentions, "My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You," written by Bob Wills, and presented here by Ray Price.
Download: "You Always Get By" 1953. mp3
Download: "My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You" 1957. mp3
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Love your blog! You have excellent taste in music. Thanks!!
ReplyDelete"My Shoes Keep Walking..." is pretty great--& I really wasn't familiar with it (need to listen to more Ray Price).
ReplyDeleteGlad you're enjoying the epic posts. The next one's up probably Mon. or Tues. of next week..
best,
chris
hey teddy who needs i tunes when we got you out here givin us the goods? and baby the "price" is right. oh yes.
ReplyDeletejim in dubai
jimmy, glad you are tuning on halfway across the globe. make sure you hold the the speaker up to chloe's belly, and let ratbag jr. DANCE!
ReplyDeletechris, i await your next installment. i considered doing a whole post riffing off of yours, but i thought it would be slightly obnoxious considering the painstaking work you put into yours as opposed to my anecdotal presentations.
short list:
walk a mile in my shoes
by elvis or joe south
walk and don't look back
peter tosh with mick jagger
or the temptations
walk on
neil young
whatever...
tb
Oh hell, feel free to riff. There's more than enough walking songs, etc. around. And in the most recent post, I ran out of steam writing about racehorse songs--tons more selections there...you could do a whole post on "stewball"
ReplyDeleteWow i was just thinking of Ray Price! he is performing at the bethelwoods center up in the catskills --on a wednesday night in August--the 29th maybe...
ReplyDeleteWITH ...Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard.
I plan to go to check out Ray.
--seeing Dylan there this weekend.
ched,that sounds like a great show. as for bd, i think i'm going friday. still waiting to see if i have a ticket...
ReplyDeleteBD is saturday the 30th--but some news places are saying it is on fri.
ReplyDeleteps i loved " don't look back" when done by jagger and tosh--i think they performed it on SNL--I seem to recall jagger was hopping up and down during the song.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to the Jones Beach show.
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